Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, easy low-calorie and fat-reduced mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo tofu is one of the signature dishes from Sichuan, China. Silky soft tofu swimming in spicy sauce. Originally, mapo tofu was a very oily dish, but I made this recipe easier on our tummy by reducing the excess fat amount. Here is how you can achieve it.

Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look wonderful. Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have easy low-calorie and fat-reduced mapo tofu using 20 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu:

1. Take 80 to 100 grams Ground pork
2. Make ready 1 block Tofu (firm or silken)
3. Take 1 tsp Garlic (finely chopped)
4. Take 1 tsp Ginger (finely chopped)
5. Make ready 1/2 Japanese leek (the green part too)
6. Prepare 1 to 3 teaspoons ● Doubanjiang
7. Take 1 heaped tablespoon ● Tianmianjiang
8. Take 2/3 tsp ● Douchi (or substitute tianmianjiang)
9. Prepare 1 dash ● Pepper
10. Take Combined seasoning ingredients:
11. Make ready 1 tsp ○ Soy sauce
12. Prepare 1 tbsp ○ Sake (use shaoxing wine if possible)
13. Get 1 tsp ○ Chicken bone soup stock granules
14. Prepare 1 to 2 teaspoons ○ Oyster sauce
15. Make ready 1/2 tsp ○ Umami seasoning (Ajinomoto, etc.)
16. Take 180 ml ○ Water
17. Prepare 1 to 1 1/2 tablespoons Katakuriko dissolved in an equal amount of water
18. Prepare Optional additions:
19. Make ready 1 tsp Sesame oil
20. Get 1 dash Sichuan or Szechuan pepper (hua jiao, or use sansho pepper)

Usually I'm pretty good at reasoning these things out with google, but my lack of familiarity with this dish is making it hard for me to estimate. Indeed, mapo tofu is one of the most famous tofu recipes to have made it out of China. This spicy, delicious dish usually includes small amount of ground pork, but for this vegan version, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms. The result is a vegetarian/vegan dish that hasn't sacrificed a bit of umami!

Instructions to make Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu:

1. Make narrow cuts in the leek about halfway through. Make cuts halfway through on the other side too.
2. Chop it up after making the cuts and you'll end up with very finely minced leek. With this method, the cut end of the leek doesn't spread out so it's really easy to chop.
3. Finely chop the garlic and ginger. chop up the douchijiang too.
4. Combine the ○ ingredients and mix well. Cut the tofu into cubes, and drain in a sieve.
5. Put the ground pork, garlic, ginger and ● flavoring ingredients in a frying pan and mix together. Adjust the amount of doubanjiang (spiciness) to taste!
6. When the mixture looks like this, turn on the heat.
7. After a while, the fat will come out of the pork. Just use that fat to stir fry the pork until it's crumbly.
8. Add half the leek and keep stir frying.
9. Add the combined flavoring ingredients from Step 4. When it comes to a boil, add the tofu.
10. Add the rest of the leek (including the green parts), and adjust the seasoning. Adjust the saltiness with soy sauce, and if you want some sweetness add some sugar (not listed in the ingredient list)!
11. When the tofu has warmed through, thicken the sauce with katakuriko dissolved in water. Don't add it all at once; add it little by little while observing how thick the sauce is getting.
12. If you mix it with a spatula the tofu will fall apart, so shake the frying pan around to mix it up. Optionally add some sesame oil and sansho pepper to finish to make it nicely fragrant.
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16. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

This spicy, delicious dish usually includes small amount of ground pork, but for this vegan version, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms. The result is a vegetarian/vegan dish that hasn't sacrificed a bit of umami! Mapo tofu is extremely popular both in and outside of China, perhaps because it was meant to be adaptable. The type and amount of both tofu and meat is often varied and even the spicy sauce can be tuned to the desired level of heat. Tofu is a low-fat source of protein that's good for you.

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