Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Take 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Make ready 50 g minced beef
3. Take 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
4. Make ready 3 sliced ginger
5. Make ready some scallions
6. Prepare 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
7. Make ready 1 chopped dried chili
8. Take 1 spoon chili sauce
9. Prepare 2 spoons starch
10. Prepare some black pepper
11. Prepare salt
12. Make ready 1 spoon light soy sauce
13. Take 1 spoon sesame oil

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu
5. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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