Hey everyone, it’s John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, simple mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Simple Mapo Tofu is only one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Simple Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
I learned my Mapo Tofu recipe from a Sichuan friend, the birthplace of this famed Chinese recipe. My friend's mother attended the Sichuan Culinary Institute at Chengdu, so this Mapo Tofu recipe is as authentic as it can be. Recipe courtesy of Fresh Tastes Mapo Tofu can be found in almost any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have simple mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Simple Mapo Tofu:
- Prepare 1 box silk tofu
- Get 200 gr minced beef
- Take 4 pc dried mushroom (keep the water) - keep in the water for 15min and diced
- Take 350 ml water (I used that mushroom water)
- Prepare 1 tbs cornstarch
- Prepare 2 minced garlic
- Make ready 1 cm ginger (minced)
- Make ready 1/2 tbs white pepper
- Take 1 tbs chilli flakes
- Make ready 1 tbs sugar
- Take 1 tbs soy sauce
- Take 1 1/2 tbs chilli sauce
- Make ready 1 1/2 tbs ketchup
- Make ready 1 tsb sesame oil
- Prepare Oils
Indeed, mapo tofu is one of the most famous tofu recipes to have made it out of China. This spicy, delicious dish usually includes small amount of ground pork, but for this vegan version, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms. MaPo Tofu is a popular meal that simmers tofu in a spicy sauce, usually with minced meat. While the traditional dish has classic "numbing" spiciness, we turn the heat down but keep all the mouthwatering flavors with aromatics, ground pork, and chili-garlic, soy, and Chinese black bean sauce.
Steps to make Simple Mapo Tofu:
- Mix the sauces, ketchup, sugar, chilli flakes, and pepper.
- Heat oils and sesame oil, stir fry garlic and ginger. Put minced beef inside and stir until brownish. Add the water till boiling.
- Put sauces and tofu inside. Keep boiling and last, put cornstarch until the sauce thicken.
- Enjoy with warm rice 😄
An easy mapo tofu recipe that creates the authentic taste of China. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice. I love cooking mapo tofu for a quick lunch or dinner. 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.
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