Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Favorite Mapo Tofu

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

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Get 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Make ready 50 g minced beef
3. Prepare 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
4. Take 3 sliced ginger
5. Get some scallions
6. Make ready 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
7. Get 1 chopped dried chili
8. Take 1 spoon chili sauce
9. Take 2 spoons starch
10. Get some black pepper
11. Make ready salt
12. Get 1 spoon light soy sauce
13. Make ready 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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