Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

Heat a wok and pour in the groundnut oil. Get this really hot and fry the pork until it's crispy. Remove with a slotted spoon but leave the oil behind. Add the bean paste and cook, stirring for a few mins until fragrant, then add the black beans, ginger and garlic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

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

Top with the spring onion, sesame seeds, chilli, if using, and the remaining ground Sichuan peppercorns. Serve with steamed rice, if you like. 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.

Steps 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 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. Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province.

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