Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Mapo Tofu
by Edwin Strickland
Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
Take 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
Prepare 50 g minced beef
Prepare 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
Prepare 3 sliced ginger
Take some scallions
Prepare 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
Get 1 chopped dried chili
Prepare 1 spoon chili sauce
Get 2 spoons starch
Make ready some black pepper
Prepare salt
Prepare 1 spoon light soy sauce
Get 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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