Hello everybody, it’s John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, 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 in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Prepare 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
- Make ready 50 g minced beef
- Get 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
- Make ready 3 sliced ginger
- Take some scallions
- Prepare 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
- Take 1 chopped dried chili
- Take 1 spoon chili sauce
- Make ready 2 spoons starch
- Make ready some black pepper
- Make ready salt
- Take 1 spoon light soy sauce
- Take 1 spoon sesame oil
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
- 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
- Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
- 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
- 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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