Step-by-Step Guide to Prepare Perfect Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Get 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Take 50 g minced beef
3. Make ready 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
4. Get 3 sliced ginger
5. Prepare some scallions
6. Make ready 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
7. Take 1 chopped dried chili
8. Take 1 spoon chili sauce
9. Make ready 2 spoons starch
10. Make ready some black pepper
11. Take salt
12. Make ready 1 spoon light soy sauce
13. Prepare 1 spoon sesame oil

Instructions to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse
4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu

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