Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ma po tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. 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 Chinese people but also many western countries. Personally I like to cook this dish at home from time. This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants!
Ma Po Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. Ma Po Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have ma po tofu using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Ma Po Tofu:
- Prepare 200 grams Minced Pork
- Take 2 pack Silken Tofu
- Get 10 grams Ginger
- Make ready 1 piece Garlic
- Take 1/2 pieces Leek (Naganegi)
- Get As needed Spring Onion
- Take 2 tbsp Salad Oil (cooking Oil)
- Prepare <Ma Po Sauce>
- Prepare 2 tsp Chili Bean Sauce (If your kids do not like spicy one, use 1tsp Chili Bean Sauce)
- Prepare 2 tsp Hoisin Sauce
- Get 2 tsp Soy Sauce
- Make ready 1 tsp Oyster Sauce
- Prepare 1 tsp Sugar
- Make ready 1 tbsp Sake (Rice cooking wine)
- Take 2 tsp Chinese Soup Stock
- Make ready 100 ml Water
- Take <dissolved potato starch>
- Get 2 tsp Potato Starch
- Prepare 2 tsp Water
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. Beef, beef broth, chicken, chicken broth, garlic, ginger, green bell pepper, green chili pepper, green onion, ground black pepper, hot pepper flakes, hot pepper paste, onion, pork shoulder, potato starch, salt, sesame oil, soy sauce, tofu, vegetable oil, vegetable stock. Mapo Tofu - Learn how to make flavorful, and delicious Chinese mapo tofu with this easy recipe that you can make at home and better than restaurants.
Instructions to make Ma Po Tofu:
- Combine the Ma Po Sauce ingredients in a bowl. Mix Potato starch and water to make dissolved potato starch in another bowl.
- Mince Leek, ginger and garlic.
- Cut the Tofu into 2cm square. Boil it for 2 minutes with hot water and drain with hot water.
- Heat Salad Oil in a frying pan and add garlic, ginger and cook until tender over low heat. Add Leek and Minced Pork and fry until browned, add Ma Po Sauce into the pan.
- Put Tofu in the pan and mix gently so as not to destroy Tofu.
- Add dissolved potato starch. After that,put it in a plate.
- Hoisin Sauce SG$3.70/240g at FairPrice
- Chili Bean Sause SG$3.70/226g at FairPrice
First of all, Ma Po Tofu's main flavor is the Sichuan peppercorn. My husband and I have traveled throughout Asia, and Ma Po Tofu is one of our favorites - we have ordered it wherever available. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu. This recipe for ma po tofu, a Chinese stir-fry, is simple to make and good for you, too.
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