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Mapo Tofu Recipe

 ·  β˜• 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Sally Casey

Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must 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. Prepare 200 gms minced pork
  2. Get 450 gms silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
  3. Get 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
  4. Take 1 tsp corn starch
  5. Prepare 3 tbsp ginger minced
  6. Prepare 3 tbsp garlic minced
  7. Prepare 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. Prepare 1/4 tsp sugar
  10. Take 1/4 tsp sesame oil
  11. Get 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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