Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine)
Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine)

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, chinese mapo tofu (sichuan cuisine). One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine) is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine) is something which I have loved my entire life.

Authentic Szechuan style mapo tofu is one of the branding dishes of Szechuan cuisine. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese mapo tofu (sichuan cuisine) using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
  1. Take 300 g tofu (1 box)
  2. Make ready 100 g ground pork (or beef, chicken)
  3. Get 1 green onion
  4. Make ready 1/2 tbsp garlic (minced)
  5. Take 1/2 tbsp ginger (minced)
  6. Take For braising
  7. Take 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder
  8. Prepare 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder
  9. Take 1/8 tsp white pepper
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce)
  11. Take 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp corn starch
  13. Prepare 2 tbsp water (mix with corn starch)
  14. Get 1/2 cup water
  15. Take 1 tsp sugar
  16. Prepare 1 tsp sesame oil

As the saying goes, 'one dish with one flavor, with one hundred dishes come hundred flavors.' 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. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. The classic recipe consists of silken tofu, ground pork or beef, fermented broad beans & soybeans (doubanjiang), fermented black beans (douchi), and Sichuan peppercorn to name a few main ingredients.

Instructions to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
  1. Cut tofu into 2cm cubes. Slice green onion into small pieces, separate white part and green part. Mince garlic and ginger.
  2. Mix 1 tbsp corn starch and 2 tbsp water.
  3. Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil, add ground pork, stir fry for a while, then add garlic, ginger and half of 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder, 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder, 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce), sugar, white part of green onion, stir fry for 1 minute.
  4. Pour 1/2 cup of water in, add tofu, gently push tofu with spatula, then cook for 5 minutes over low heat.
  5. Mix cornstarch water, swirl it into the wok, gently stir till sauce thickens. Before serving, add pinch of Sichuan peppercorns powder, pinch of white peppers, add green part of green onion, 1 tsp sesame oil. Then transfer to a serving plate or bowl.
  6. Serve with steamed rice.
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Tofu is cooked in a spicy and oily. Mapo Tofu is a Chinese dish but it is also very popular in Japan. The dish goes great with steamed rice! [recipe]. Doubanjiang, Tian Mian Jiang and Sichuan Pepper are found in the Chinese food section of most major grocery stores. You should also try our Mabo Nasu recipe using eggplants.

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