Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chinese mapo tofu (sichuan cuisine). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Authentic Szechuan style mapo tofu is one of the branding dishes of Szechuan cuisine. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries.
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To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chinese mapo tofu (sichuan cuisine) using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
- Make ready 300 g tofu (1 box)
- Get 100 g ground pork (or beef, chicken)
- Take 1 green onion
- Take 1/2 tbsp garlic (minced)
- Get 1/2 tbsp ginger (minced)
- Make ready For braising
- Get 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder
- Prepare 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder
- Get 1/8 tsp white pepper
- Take 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce)
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
- Get 1 tbsp corn starch
- Prepare 2 tbsp water (mix with corn starch)
- Take 1/2 cup water
- Get 1 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp sesame oil
DISCLOSURE: This article contains Amazon affiliate links. Mapo tofu, one of the most notable regional Chinese dishes has become a popular Sichuan dish around the world. Mapo tofu is a combination of tender tofu and spicy chili-and-bean-based sauce, sprinkled with minced meat, usually pork or beef, and topped with some chopped scallion pieces. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes.
Instructions to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
- Cut tofu into 2cm cubes. Slice green onion into small pieces, separate white part and green part. Mince garlic and ginger.
- Mix 1 tbsp corn starch and 2 tbsp water.
- Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil, add ground pork, stir fry for a while, then add garlic, ginger and half of 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder, 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder, 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce), sugar, white part of green onion, stir fry for 1 minute.
- Pour 1/2 cup of water in, add tofu, gently push tofu with spatula, then cook for 5 minutes over low heat.
- Mix cornstarch water, swirl it into the wok, gently stir till sauce thickens. Before serving, add pinch of Sichuan peppercorns powder, pinch of white peppers, add green part of green onion, 1 tsp sesame oil. Then transfer to a serving plate or bowl.
- Serve with steamed rice.
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This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan Province, where spicy food is king and the signature spice of the region–the Sichuan Peppercorn–gives dishes a unique "numbing" effect. It's almost like the Sichuan peppercorns are there to not only add their fragrance and flavor, but also to. The easy Mapo Tofu recipe below uses tofu, ground beef, chopped chili peppers, and broad bean paste. Its characteristics can be well expressed with the following terms: spicy, hot, delicious, tender and fresh.
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