Szechuan Mapo Tofu
Szechuan Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, szechuan mapo 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.

Szechuan Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Szechuan Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve 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. Making the yummiest mapo tofu at home for several bowls of steamed rice. A famous Sichuan (Szechuan) recipe—the name mapo tofu is roughly translated as "pockmarked grandmother beancurd," named for the old woman who supposedly invented the dish.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have szechuan mapo tofu using 17 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Szechuan Mapo Tofu:
  1. Take 500 g Tofu
  2. Get 250 g Minced Meat (of your choosing, I'm using beef)
  3. Make ready 3 stalks Spring Onions (separate the green and white part)
  4. Prepare 20 g Garlic (minced)
  5. Get 20 g Ginger (minced)
  6. Get 2 Tbsp Salted Black Beans
  7. Take 2 Tbsp Chilli Bean Paste
  8. Take 1 Tbsp Light Soy Sauce
  9. Make ready 1 Tbsp Chilli Flakes
  10. Get 1 Tbsp Szechuan Peppercorn
  11. Prepare 1 Tbsp Chilli Oil
  12. Get 1 tsp Sesame Oil
  13. Get 2 tsp Sugar
  14. Prepare as needed Cooking Oil
  15. Get Thickener (mix well in a bowl)
  16. Make ready 1 tsp Corn Flour
  17. Make ready 1/4 cup Water

The customers couldn't stop eating it. Cut press tofu to desired size, set aside. Warm up oil in frying pan over medium low heat, add garlic, sauté until fragrance is released. Add minced pork, sauté over medium high heat, until colour changes.

Steps to make Szechuan Mapo Tofu:
  1. TOFU; boil the tofu in boiling water for 3 minutes. Then remove, strain and set aside.
  2. MEAT; heat 3 tbsp of cooking oil until hot. Fry the Szechuan peppercorn for 1 minute, then add the mince meat and fry it until brown. Remove and set aside.
  3. SAUCE; heat 3 Tbsp of cooking oil until hot and fry the garlic, ginger and he white part of the spring onion until fragrant. Then add the black bean fry for a minute. Next add the chilli bean paste, sugar and mix well.
  4. ASSEMBLY; Then add 1 cup of stock, chilli flakes, the beef, chilli oil, sesame oil and then mix well. Then add the tofu but Do Not Mix the Tofu. Instead, baste the tofu with the sauce and cook for 3 minutes. Then add the thickener and stir gently. Serve on a plate and garnish with the remainder of the spring onions.

Warm up oil in frying pan over medium low heat, add garlic, sauté until fragrance is released. Add minced pork, sauté over medium high heat, until colour changes. Reduce heat to medium low, add red chilli and fermented chilli bean paste, sauté to mix well. Often found in Chinese restaurants, Mapo Tofu is a quick Chinese Sichuan dinner recipe to make at home. This is an easy and flavorful way to prepare tofu, with minced meat and an aromatic red sauce.

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