Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Super Quick Homemade Mapo Tofu

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:

1. Take 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Prepare 50 g minced beef
3. Prepare 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
4. Prepare 3 sliced ginger
5. Take some scallions
6. Prepare 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
7. Get 1 chopped dried chili
8. Prepare 1 spoon chili sauce
9. Get 2 spoons starch
10. Make ready some black pepper
11. Prepare salt
12. Prepare 1 spoon light soy sauce
13. Get 1 spoon sesame oil

Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:

1. 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
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
3. 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
4. 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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