Hello everybody, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The best way of serving mapo tofu is simply with steamed rice or noodles. Famous Mapo Tofu Recipe From Sichuan Cuisine. Heat a wok and pour in the groundnut oil. Get this really hot and fry the pork until it's crispy.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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. Get 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. Get 1 tbsp minced Ginger, fresh
5. Make ready 1 tbsp minced Garlic, fresh
6. Make ready 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
7. Take 2 Dried chilies
8. Make ready 3 tbsp Cornstarch with cold water
9. Take 1/3 cup Water
10. Get 2 tsp Sesame oil
11. Get 2 tbsp Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang)
12. Get 2 tbsp Soy sauce
13. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan pepper
14. Take 1/2 tsp ground White pepper
15. Take 1/2 tsp Salt

It's a signature dish of Sichuan cuisine, presenting its characteristic flavour: Mala (麻辣), namely numbing and spicy. Over recent years, Mapo tofu started appearing on the menus of oversea Chinese 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.

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!

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. Fiery and deeply savoury, this is a great dish to convert tofu sceptics.

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