Mapo Tofu.
Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it's fast, it tastes yummy. They're fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I've loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- {Prepare of Soft tofu, 1 lb chopped in cubes.
- {Make ready of minced Beef.
- {Get of Scallion chopped, separate white and green.
- {Prepare of minced Ginger, fresh.
- {Make ready of minced Garlic, fresh.
- {Prepare of Sichuan peppercorns.
- {Get of Dried chilies.
- {Prepare of Cornstarch with cold water.
- {Make ready of Water.
- {Get of Sesame oil.
- {Make ready of Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang).
- {Take of Soy sauce.
- {Get of ground Sichuan pepper.
- {Get of ground White pepper.
- {Prepare of Salt.
Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
- Add soft tofu and salt in boiling water for just 1 minute. Mix well minced beef with 1 tbsp soy sauce and ground white pepper..
- Heat up a pan with sesame oil and Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant. Pick up the fried peppercorns and set aside..
- In the pan add marinated beef and fry until dried and brown. Add doubanjiang, ginger, garlic until fragrant. Then add hot water, 1 tbsp soy sauce, and tofu in and stir well gently. Simmer with lid on low heat for 3 minutes..
- Add the fried Sichuan peppercorns, dried chilies, ground Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and stir well with cornstarch slurry until perfectly thickened, and remove from heat. Sprinkle fresh scallion greens on top. Then Bon Appétit!.
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