Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Prepare 2 tbsp chopped ginger
- Get 2 tbsp chopped garlic
- Get 150 g minced pork
- Make ready 2 tbsp chopped leek
- Take Salt and Pepper
- Prepare 1 packed Tofu
- Prepare 1.5 tbsp corn starch with 1.5 tbsp water
- Take 1 tbsp sesame oil
- Prepare Chili flakes
- Take 1 tsp sliced leek
- Get For the sauce
- Make ready 150 ml water
- Make ready 2 tbsp soy sauce
- Take 2 tbsp miso
Very nice texture - creamy and soft. I tried not to stir the mixture too much as it heated so some of the tofu would retain its shape. Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste) and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat, traditionally beef.
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
- In a frying pan - Put the olive oil, the chopped ginger and the garlic with low heat until it smells good.
- Add the minced pork and the chopped leek in the frying pan and heat until the pork becomes brown.
- Add a pinch of salt and pepper until taste is good.
- Cut the Tofu into 1.5cm cube.
- Add the Tofu, water, soy sauce and miso in the frying pan and boil for a while.
- In a cup - Mix the corn starch and water together.
- Turn off the heat of frying pan. Add the corn starch and water in the frying pan little by little and mix.
- Taste and adjust with salt. You can add chili flakes.
- Add sesame oil and the slice of leek and Enjoy!
Variations exist with other ingredients such as water. Poach tofu: Slide tofu into a saucepan of simmering water and keep at a bare simmer while stir-frying rest of dish. 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.
So that is going to wrap this up for this special food mapo tofu recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I’m confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to save this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!
