Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste) and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 using 7 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐:

1. Make ready 1 package tofu
2. Make ready 150 g ground pork (or beef)
3. Make ready to taste chili bean sauce
4. Get 1 tsp sugar
5. Take 1 cup water
6. Prepare 2 cloves garlic
7. Prepare as needed oil

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Instructions to make Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐:

1. Put oil in the pan. When hot, put garlic to fry. When garlic turns brown, put ground pork into the pan. Stir occasionally until the pork gets brown.
2. Boil some water to cook tofu first. (by doing so, tofu won’t be broken easily) Drain off the water.
3. Add chili bean sauce and sugar to the pork. Stir to mix the pork with the sauce. Put tofu into the pan to cook with the pork. Stir gently to mix the flavor.
4. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants! JOC's all-time favorite dish, and it frequently makes it into my dinner menu rotation. We often eat Mapo Tofu as a donburi-style, one-bowl meal for easy. Mapo tofu is one of the most popular Chinese dish in US, but do you know what Mapo means? Mapo means old lady with a pock-marked face. This dish was invented by a lady in Sichuan who really know how to cook tofu.

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