Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Take 200 gms minced pork
  2. Make ready 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
  3. Get 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
  4. Make ready 1 tsp corn starch
  5. Get 3 tbsp ginger minced
  6. Make ready 3 tbsp garlic minced
  7. Prepare 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
  8. Get 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
  9. Make ready 1/4 tsp sugar
  10. Get 1/4 tsp sesame oil
  11. Make ready 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Heat oil in your wok over medium heat. Add your ground Sichuan peppercorns and stir occasionally for 30 seconds. Add the ginger, garlic, chillies fry until aromatic about 1-2 minute, then turn heat to high and add the ground pork. Break up the meat and fry it until it’s cooked through. add broth/water and let it come to a boil; turn heat to medium and let it continue to simmer. Meanwhile in 1/4cup of water add corn starch and mix thoroughly. Now add cornstarch mixture to the broth and stir.
  2. Let it continue to simmer and thicken slightly. Once slightly thick, add tofu, give a light stir, let it continue to cook for about 5 minutes, now stir in sesame oil and sugar, turn heat off, garnish with green onions and coriander and serve with a steaming hot bowl of boiled rice.

So that is going to wrap it up with this special food mapo tofu recipe. Thanks so much for reading. I am sure that you can make this at home. There’s gonna be interesting food at home recipes coming up. Don’t forget to bookmark this page on your browser, and share it to your loved ones, colleague and friends. Thank you for reading. Go on get cooking!