Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
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. Personally I like to cook this dish at home from time to time especially in cool seasons such as winter and fall. Mapo Tofu can be found in almost any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Take 2 gloves garlic minced
- Prepare 1 inch ginger minced
- Get 2 scallions sliced
- Take 14 oz soft tofu cubed
- Prepare 1 tablespoon canola oil
- Take 1/2 pound ground pork
- Take Ingredients for sauce
- Take 1 tablespoon tobanjan
- Make ready 1.5 tablespoons gochujang
- Take 2 tablespoons mirin
- Take 1 tablespoon miso
- Take 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
- Take 1/2 tablespoon soy sauce
- Prepare 1 teaspoon sesame oil
- Prepare 1 teaspoon corn starch
- Get 4 tablespoons water
This spicy, aromatic Sichuan dish is recognizable from the citrus aroma of Sichuan peppercorns and the spicy fermented flavor of hot bean sauce. Mapo tofu is a justly popular menu item in many Chinese restaurants It is a quickly cooked dish of braised tofu with minced pork (sometimes beef) in a bracing spicy sauce made with fermented black beans and fermented broad bean paste, along with hot red pepper and Sichuan pepper This meatless version with fresh shiitake mushrooms is completely satisfying, and surprisingly easy to make There is nothing wrong with this recipe, but be forewarned: It is NOT a recipe for Ma Po Tofu. First of all, Ma Po Tofu's main flavor is the Sichuan peppercorn. Poach tofu: Slide tofu into a saucepan of simmering water and keep at a bare simmer while stir-frying rest of dish.
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
- Combine all ingredients for sauce
- Heat oil on medium high heat and add garlic and ginger. Cook until fragrant
- Add ground pork and cook until no pink meat remains. Add sauce and stir thoroughly
- When sauce is boiling, add tofu and stir to coat. Add green onion and remove from pan
- Best served over short grain Japanese rice
Stir-fry pork: Heat a wok or large heavy skillet over high heat until hot and. Mapo Tofu is a classic Szechuan dish that features tofu covered in spices and minced meat. It pairs extremely well with rice, and may even be necessary with how spicy it can get. The name literally translates to "pockmarked old lady tofu", inspired by the old lady that made this dish. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes.
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