Recipe of Perfect Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

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