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. 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 most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
Take minced pork
Take silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
Take chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
Take corn starch
Prepare ginger minced
Get garlic minced
Prepare dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
Make ready sichuan pepper coarsely ground
Take sugar
Get sesame oil
Prepare oil depending on the fattiness in pork
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
Heat oil in your wok over medium heat. Add your ground Sichuan peppercorns and stir occasionally for 30 seconds. Add the ginger, garlic, chillies fry until aromatic about 1-2 minute, then turn heat to high and add the ground pork. Break up the meat and fry it until it’s cooked through. add broth/water and let it come to a boil; turn heat to medium and let it continue to simmer. Meanwhile in 1/4cup of water add corn starch and mix thoroughly. Now add cornstarch mixture to the broth and stir.
Let it continue to simmer and thicken slightly. Once slightly thick, add tofu, give a light stir, let it continue to cook for about 5 minutes, now stir in sesame oil and sugar, turn heat off, garnish with green onions and coriander and serve with a steaming hot bowl of boiled rice.
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