Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Speedy Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Take minced pork
2. Take silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
3. Take chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
4. Take corn starch
5. Make ready ginger minced
6. Make ready garlic minced
7. Get dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
8. Get sichuan pepper coarsely ground
9. Get sugar
10. Make ready sesame oil
11. Get 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.

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