Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who. 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 is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:

1. Prepare 500 g soft tofu
2. Take 100 g minced pork
3. Make ready 2 TSP chilli oil
4. Prepare 3 TBSP Dou ban Jiang (broad bean paste)
5. Take 1 TBSP chilli powder
6. Take 1 TBSP chopped ginger
7. Take 1 TBSP chopped garlic
8. Make ready 3 spring onions
9. Make ready 1 TSP soy sauce
10. Get 2 TSP sugar
11. Make ready 1 cup water
12. Take Salt
13. Get Corn starch
14. Get Sichuan peppercorn powder
15. Get TBSP fermented black beans

An easy mapo tofu recipe that creates the authentic taste of China. 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. This vegan version has all the flavors that you need: numbing, spicy, salty.

Steps to make Mapo tofu:

1. Chop spring onions, separate into white and green. Chop garlic, ginger black beans and the Dou ban Jiang
2. Boil tofu for a few mins in a sauce pan with lightly salted water
3. Stir fry pork until browned in a wok
4. Add white spring onion, garlic and ginger, cook for a few mins with the pork
5. Add black beans, sauté. Add Dou ban Jiang, sauté
6. Add water to wok, stir
7. Add the chilli powder, chilli oil and a bit of peppercorn powder, stir
8. Add the tofu. Treat gently otherwise tofu will break. Push and pour the sauce around the tofu
9. Add sugar and soya sauce, stir gently
10. Make a cornstarch and water slurry and add to wok. (Optional: add 1tsp of sesame oil) stir gently
11. Serve and top with sting onion greens
12. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor. This vegan version has all the flavors that you need: numbing, spicy, salty. You can order mapo tofu from many Chinese restaurants, but it's also quite doable at home. You can find the pivotal fermented chile and broad (fava) bean sauce or paste called doubanjiang. JOC's all-time favorite dish, and it frequently makes it into my dinner menu rotation.

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