Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Award-winning Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Get tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Take minced beef
3. Take Szechuan bean paste
4. Make ready sliced ginger
5. Prepare some scallions
6. Make ready Szechuan peppercorn
7. Make ready chopped dried chili
8. Prepare chili sauce
9. Take starch
10. Prepare some black pepper
11. Make ready salt
12. Prepare light soy sauce
13. Take 1 spoon sesame oil

Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu

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