Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Take 1 pack Soft tofu, 1 lb chopped in cubes
2. Get 100 g minced Beef
3. Prepare 1 Scallion chopped, separate white and green
4. Make ready 1 tbsp minced Ginger, fresh
5. Make ready 1 tbsp minced Garlic, fresh
6. Take 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
7. Prepare 2 Dried chilies
8. Get 3 tbsp Cornstarch with cold water
9. Take 1/3 cup Water
10. Prepare 2 tsp Sesame oil
11. Make ready 2 tbsp Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang)
12. Prepare 2 tbsp Soy sauce
13. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan pepper
14. Take 1/2 tsp ground White pepper
15. Get 1/2 tsp Salt

Heat the oil in a large frying pan over a medium heat. Add the garlic and ginger and stir-fry for another minute, until aromatic. This mapo tofu recipe (麻婆豆腐) is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional, can't-have-just-one-scoop mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants. Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province.

Steps 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!

This mapo tofu recipe (麻婆豆腐) is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional, can't-have-just-one-scoop mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants. Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste) and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat, traditionally beef. Variations exist with other ingredients such as water. This stunning mapo tofu recipe from Helen Graves shows you how to make this classic Sichuan dish.

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