Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special 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 on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Get 200 gms minced pork
2. Make ready 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
3. Make ready 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
4. Take 1 tsp corn starch
5. Make ready 3 tbsp ginger minced
6. Prepare 3 tbsp garlic minced
7. Take 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
8. Get 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
9. Take 1/4 tsp sugar
10. Get 1/4 tsp sesame oil
11. Take 2-3 tbsp 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.
3. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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