Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu at home. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mapo Tofu at Home is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Mapo Tofu at Home is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu at home using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu at Home:
- Make ready 200 grams Mixed ground beef and pork (or just pork)
- Take 1 block Tofu
- Prepare 1/2 of a small Onion
- Prepare 5 cm White part of a leek
- Make ready 1 piece/clove each Ginger and garlic
- Get 1 dash Chinese garlic chives
- Make ready 1 heaping teaspoon Doubanjiang
- Get 1 tsp of each ● Chinese soup stock, miso
- Take 1/4 tsp ● Salt
- Get 1 1/2 tsp ● Sugar
- Get 1/2 tbsp ● Sesame oil
- Take 1 tbsp ● Soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp ● Sweet chili sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp ● Ketchup
- Prepare 100 ml ● Water or hot water
- Prepare 1 tbsp ☆ Katakuriko
- Make ready 2 tbsp ☆ Water
Steps to make Mapo Tofu at Home:
- Finely chop the leek, garlic and ginger.
- Combine the ● ingredients.
- Flavor the ground meat with 1 tablespoon each of soy sauce and sake (not listed).
- Heat vegetable oil (not listed) in a frying pan, and stir fry the ginger and garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
- When it is fragrant, add the ground meat, and stir fry until it changes color.
- Add the onion and leek, as well as the doubanjiang. The doubanjiang will spit a bit, so be careful.
- Cut the tofu into bite sized pieces and put on a plate. Microwave without covering for 2 to 3 minutes at 500 W to expel excess water.
- When the onion has softened, add the ● sauce and the tofu, and simmer for a few minutes. While it's simmering, drizzle in the katakuriko slurry. Stir in the Chinese garlic chives, turn off the heat, and it's done.
- The photo here shows a mapo tofu rice bowl.
- The next day, the sauce will stiffened up to a meat-miso sauce consistency, so I combined it with rice for mapo fried rice.
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