Hey everyone, it is John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mapo tofu at home. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu at Home is one of the most favored of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Mapo Tofu at Home is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu at home using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu at Home:

1. Prepare 200 grams Mixed ground beef and pork (or just pork)
2. Take 1 block Tofu
3. Make ready 1/2 of a small Onion
4. Take 5 cm White part of a leek
5. Make ready 1 piece/clove each Ginger and garlic
6. Get 1 dash Chinese garlic chives
7. Make ready 1 heaping teaspoon Doubanjiang
8. Prepare 1 tsp of each ● Chinese soup stock, miso
9. Make ready 1/4 tsp ● Salt
10. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp ● Sugar
11. Get 1/2 tbsp ● Sesame oil
12. Prepare 1 tbsp ● Soy sauce
13. Get 1 tbsp ● Sweet chili sauce
14. Make ready 1 tbsp ● Ketchup
15. Take 100 ml ● Water or hot water
16. Take 1 tbsp ☆ Katakuriko
17. Make ready 2 tbsp ☆ Water

Steps to make Mapo Tofu at Home:

1. Finely chop the leek, garlic and ginger.
2. Combine the ● ingredients.
3. Flavor the ground meat with 1 tablespoon each of soy sauce and sake (not listed).
4. Heat vegetable oil (not listed) in a frying pan, and stir fry the ginger and garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
5. When it is fragrant, add the ground meat, and stir fry until it changes color.
6. Add the onion and leek, as well as the doubanjiang. The doubanjiang will spit a bit, so be careful.
7. Cut the tofu into bite sized pieces and put on a plate. Microwave without covering for 2 to 3 minutes at 500 W to expel excess water.
8. When the onion has softened, add the ● sauce and the tofu, and simmer for a few minutes. While it's simmering, drizzle in the katakuriko slurry. Stir in the Chinese garlic chives, turn off the heat, and it's done.
9. The photo here shows a mapo tofu rice bowl.
10. The next day, the sauce will stiffened up to a meat-miso sauce consistency, so I combined it with rice for mapo fried rice.
11. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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