Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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. Prepare 2/3 cup chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
4. Make ready 1 tsp corn starch
5. Take 3 tbsp ginger minced
6. Take 3 tbsp garlic minced
7. Get 6-8 dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
8. Make ready 1 tsp sichuan pepper coarsely ground
9. Make ready 1/4 tsp sugar
10. Make ready 1/4 tsp sesame oil
11. Prepare 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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