Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible 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 unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

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To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Take 100 grams meat minced
2. Prepare 450 grams white soft tofu1 box
3. Get 2 tbsp vegetable oil
4. Get 2 tbsp doubanjiangspicy fermented broadband and chilli paste
5. Make ready 1/2 tbsp fermented black beans douchi
6. Take 2 stalks scallion spring onion, chopped
7. Take 5 clove garlic chopped
8. Prepare 1/2 tbsp ground sichuan peppercorn
9. Take 1 tsp soy sauce
10. Take 400 ml water
11. Make ready Meat Marinade:
12. Get 1/2 tbsp sesame oil
13. Take 1/4 tsp salt
14. Make ready Cornstarch Mixture:
15. Get 1 tbsp cornstarch
16. Make ready 3 tbsp water

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. This stunning mapo tofu recipe from Helen Graves shows you how to make this classic Sichuan dish.

Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:

1. After mincing meat, marinade with sesame oil and salt in a bowl. Then cut a block of silken white tofu into cubes. Lastly, make cornstarch mixture by combining cornstarch with water in a small bowl and set aside for later use.
2. Heat vegetable oil on medium heat and fry marinated meat till just cooked. Remove meat from frying pan and set aside.
3. Heat up the same oil. Then add in doubanjiang and stir fry till aromatic. Then add in the chopped scallion, garlic, fermented black bean and ground sichuan pepper. Continue to stir fry till the spices aroma is released. Then add in water.
4. Once the water mixture comes to a boil, add the tofu and gently stir without mashing up the tofu. Then, add soy sauce and fried meat. Gently stir to ensure the tofu and meat are well mixed.
5. Bring the sauce mixture to a boil. Then turn heat to low and allow to simmer for another 5 to 10 minutes. Lastly swirl in the cornstarch solution in batches, gently stir until the sauce thickens. And we're done! Turn off heat and transfer the tofu mixture into a serving bowl.
6. Serve the Mapo Tofu immediately, warm over hot steamed rice and ENJOY!

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. This stunning mapo tofu recipe from Helen Graves shows you how to make this classic Sichuan dish. Fiery and deeply savoury, this is a great dish to convert tofu sceptics. Discover more: Tofu Recipes; Chilli Recipes; Spring onion Recipes; Main course Recipes; Easy vegetarian Recipes; show more; hide more; Share recipe. Braised mushrooms with spelt, baby gem.

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