Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Get 1 pack Soft tofu, 1 lb chopped in cubes
  2. Take 100 g minced Beef
  3. Prepare 1 Scallion chopped, separate white and green
  4. Get 1 tbsp minced Ginger, fresh
  5. Take 1 tbsp minced Garlic, fresh
  6. Prepare 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
  7. Make ready 2 Dried chilies
  8. Prepare 3 tbsp Cornstarch with cold water
  9. Get 1/3 cup Water
  10. Take 2 tsp Sesame oil
  11. Prepare 2 tbsp Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang)
  12. Prepare 2 tbsp Soy sauce
  13. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan pepper
  14. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground White pepper
  15. Prepare 1/2 tsp Salt
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. 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.
  2. Heat up a pan with sesame oil and Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant. Pick up the fried peppercorns and set aside.
  3. 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.
  4. 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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