Steps to Prepare Award-winning Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. 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 on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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. Take minced beef
3. Make ready Szechuan bean paste
4. Prepare sliced ginger
5. Prepare some scallions
6. Make ready Szechuan peppercorn
7. Make ready chopped dried chili
8. Make ready chili sauce
9. Take starch
10. Make ready some black pepper
11. Prepare salt
12. Take light soy sauce
13. Take 1 spoon sesame oil

Steps 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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