Recipe of Homemade Mapo tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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Mapo tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:

1. Prepare 1 block soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes)
2. Make ready 2 tbsp corn flour (optional)
3. Make ready 200 g mince beef or pork or chicken
4. Get 2 tsp soysauce
5. Get 2 tsp grated ginger (or ginger powder)
6. Prepare 1 tsp sugar
7. Make ready 1 tsp sesame oil
8. Prepare 1 spring onions (finely chopped)
9. Make ready 1 clove garlic (finely chopped)
10. Prepare 2 tbsp vegetable cooking oil
11. Make ready Ground black pepper
12. Get 1 tsp spicy Bean paste (optional)
13. Prepare 2 tsp chilli oil (can check my recipe)

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Instructions to make Mapo tofu:

1. Coated your tofu lightly with corn flour then leave them aside. On medium heat non stick pan, add vegetable cooking oil in. Once your oil hot add tofu in and leave them cook for 5 min (don’t try to turn at this point) once you see tofu crisp up at the bottom you can start to turn them over and this is help tofu not get stuck on the pan and come off easily.
2. Cook for another 5-8 min on the other side and remove you tofu on a plate lay with kitchen towel.
3. Same pan, add garlic, stir well then add mince beef, soysauce, grated ginger, spicy bean paste, sugar and chilli oil.
4. Add tofu back in and add some sesame seeds, sprinkle on top with spring onions and stir well. Ps.this is chilli bean paste I use (photo attached)
5. Serve with some cooked jasmine rice. It’s so delicious and comforting.

Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu. Mapo tofu (pronounced mapo doufu in Mandarin, 麻婆豆腐) originates from China's Sichuan Province. Legend has it that an old woman in Sichuan was known for serving a delicious tofu dish. Mapo Tofu - Learn how to make flavorful, and delicious Chinese mapo tofu with this easy recipe that you can make at home and better than restaurants.

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