Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
We Have Almost Everything on eBay. 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. Marc Matsumoto of NoRecipes shares the story. 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.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first 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:
- Get tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
- Get minced beef
- Get Szechuan bean paste
- Take sliced ginger
- Make ready some scallions
- Take Szechuan peppercorn
- Prepare chopped dried chili
- Get chili sauce
- Take starch
- Get some black pepper
- Take salt
- Take light soy sauce
- Get 1 spoon sesame oil
Mapo tofu can also be found in restaurants in other Chinese provinces as well as in Japan and Korea where the flavor is adapted to local tastes. In the west, the dish is often greatly changed, with its spiciness severely toned down to widen its appeal. This happens particularly in Chinese restaurants not specialising in Sichuan cuisine. Poach tofu: Slide tofu into a saucepan of simmering water and keep at a bare simmer while stir-frying rest of dish.
Steps 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
This happens particularly in Chinese restaurants not specialising in Sichuan cuisine. 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 dish hailing from the area of Sichuan in China. This amazing dish has soft and tender tofu pieces mixed in with ground pork while being seasoned with a bunch of spice.
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