How to Prepare Speedy Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.

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

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

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