How to Make Award-winning Mapo Tofu

Mapo Tofu
Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Take minced pork
  2. Make ready silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes
  3. Prepare chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water
  4. Prepare corn starch
  5. Get ginger minced
  6. Make ready garlic minced
  7. Take dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes
  8. Make ready sichuan pepper coarsely ground
  9. Take sugar
  10. Get sesame oil
  11. Prepare oil depending on the fattiness in pork
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:
  1. Heat oil in your wok over medium heat. Add your ground Sichuan peppercorns and stir occasionally for 30 seconds. Add the ginger, garlic, chillies fry until aromatic about 1-2 minute, then turn heat to high and add the ground pork. Break up the meat and fry it until it’s cooked through. add broth/water and let it come to a boil; turn heat to medium and let it continue to simmer. Meanwhile in 1/4cup of water add corn starch and mix thoroughly. Now add cornstarch mixture to the broth and stir.
  2. Let it continue to simmer and thicken slightly. Once slightly thick, add tofu, give a light stir, let it continue to cook for about 5 minutes, now stir in sesame oil and sugar, turn heat off, garnish with green onions and coriander and serve with a steaming hot bowl of boiled rice.

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