How to Make Favorite Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. It is 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 most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Prepare 1 pack Soft tofu, 1 lb chopped in cubes
2. Prepare 100 g minced Beef
3. Take 1 Scallion chopped, separate white and green
4. Make ready 1 tbsp minced Ginger, fresh
5. Take 1 tbsp minced Garlic, fresh
6. Take 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
7. Prepare 2 Dried chilies
8. Get 3 tbsp Cornstarch with cold water
9. Take 1/3 cup Water
10. Make ready 2 tsp Sesame oil
11. Get 2 tbsp Chili black bean paste (Doubanjiang)
12. Prepare 2 tbsp Soy sauce
13. Get 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan pepper
14. Get 1/2 tsp ground White pepper
15. Make ready 1/2 tsp Salt

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Add soft tofu and salt in boiling water for just 1 minute. - Mix well minced beef with 1 tbsp soy sauce and ground white pepper.
2. Heat up a pan with sesame oil and Sichuan peppercorns until fragrant. Pick up the fried peppercorns and set aside.
3. In the pan add marinated beef and fry until dried and brown. Add doubanjiang, ginger, garlic until fragrant. Then add hot water, 1 tbsp soy sauce, and tofu in and stir well gently. Simmer with lid on low heat for 3 minutes.
4. Add the fried Sichuan peppercorns, dried chilies, ground Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and stir well with cornstarch slurry until perfectly thickened, and remove from heat. Sprinkle fresh scallion greens on top. - - Then Bon Appétit!

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