Hello everybody, I hope you are 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 am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Prepare 1 pack Soft tofu, 1 lb chopped in cubes
2. Get 100 g minced Beef
3. Prepare 1 Scallion chopped, separate white and green
4. Make ready 1 tbsp minced Ginger, fresh
5. Prepare 1 tbsp minced Garlic, fresh
6. Get 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
7. Get 2 Dried chilies
8. Get 3 tbsp Cornstarch with cold water
9. Make ready 1/3 cup Water
10. Make ready 2 tsp Sesame oil
11. Get 2 tbsp Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang)
12. Make ready 2 tbsp Soy sauce
13. Make ready 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan pepper
14. Get 1/2 tsp ground White pepper
15. Get 1/2 tsp Salt

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Add soft tofu and salt in boiling water for just 1 minute. Mix well minced beef with 1 tbsp soy sauce and ground white pepper.
2. Heat up a pan with sesame oil and Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant. Pick up the fried peppercorns and set aside.
3. In the pan add marinated beef and fry until dried and brown. Add doubanjiang, ginger, garlic until fragrant. Then add hot water, 1 tbsp soy sauce, and tofu in and stir well gently. Simmer with lid on low heat for 3 minutes.
4. Add the fried Sichuan peppercorns, dried chilies, ground Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and stir well with cornstarch slurry until perfectly thickened, and remove from heat. Sprinkle fresh scallion greens on top. Then Bon Appétit!
5. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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