Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Take 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
  2. Get 50 g minced beef
  3. Make ready 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
  4. Make ready 3 sliced ginger
  5. Get some scallions
  6. Get 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
  7. Take 1 chopped dried chili
  8. Make ready 1 spoon chili sauce
  9. Prepare 2 spoons starch
  10. Get some black pepper
  11. Make ready salt
  12. Get 1 spoon light soy sauce
  13. Take 1 spoon sesame oil
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
  2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
  3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
  4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu

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