Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Prepare 200 gms minced pork
  2. Get 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
  3. Get 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
  4. Prepare 1 tsp corn starch
  5. Make ready 3 tbsp ginger minced
  6. Prepare 3 tbsp garlic minced
  7. Get 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
  8. Take 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
  9. Get 1/4 tsp sugar
  10. Take 1/4 tsp sesame oil
  11. Get 2-3 tbsp oil depending on the fattiness in pork
Steps 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.

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