Non-spicy Mapo Tofu
Non-spicy Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, non-spicy mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Non-spicy Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Non-spicy Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. JOC's all-time favorite dish, and it frequently makes it into my dinner menu rotation. Today I'm going to show you how to make the best mapo tofu recipe that is flavorful and spicy! And if you can't handle the heat, I'll show you how to make.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook non-spicy mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Non-spicy Mapo Tofu:
  1. Prepare No chilly homemade Hong You or any Cooking oil
  2. Get 1 big block of Tofu (I prefer Hard Tofu)
  3. Prepare 300 gr beef mince
  4. Make ready 1 whole capsicum or a mix of different colour capsicums
  5. Prepare 1 stalk Celery
  6. Take 8 dried shiitake mushrooms
  7. Take 10 white button mushrooms
  8. Make ready Spring onions
  9. Make ready Black pepper
  10. Get Soy sauce
  11. Take Oyster sauce
  12. Get Sesame oil
  13. Take 1/2 cup corn starch
  14. Prepare Bean sprouts (Optional)

If your tofu dries out at all, you can stir-fry it for a minute or two with extra sauce, to add. Authentic Szechuan style mapo tofu is one of the branding dishes of Szechuan cuisine. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries.

Steps to make Non-spicy Mapo Tofu:
  1. Hong you (red oil) is totally my favourite thing. It smells amazing and goes well with BBQ, too. You can find Hong You recipe on the internet. If you don't want spiciness, just don't put chillies in your oil. If you don't have hong you, it's okay, any cooking oil would do but hong you makes your mapo tofu smell amazing.
  2. Gently clean the dried shiitake mushrooms then dip them in a bowl of hot water until soft. Keep this water.
  3. Capsicum, celery, mushrooms all chopped. Tofu chopped into 1cm³ blocks.
  4. Heat oil in a hot wok at high heat.
  5. If you only don't really like eating celery and capsicum and just want them for the smell, throw them in now.
  6. Add beef mince and stir until cooked.
  7. Throw in the mushrooms.
  8. Add a tablespoon of oyster sauce and soy sauce to taste. Stir well.
  9. Add 2, 3 more tablespoon off soy sauce so it is slightly saltier than you would like but not too salty.
  10. Once the shiitake mushrooms are soft enough to bite, add tofu, a bit of shiitake water and shimmer for a few minutes. If you like to eat celery and capsicum a bit raw, add them at this step.
  11. Use 1/2 cup of shiitake water to dissolve the corn starch.
  12. Slowly add the corn starch mixture into your wok and stir well until everything gets sticky.
  13. Turn off the stove.
  14. Add black pepper to your liking. Sprinkle a few drop of sesame oil. Stir well.
  15. Serve with rice.
  16. For people who like a bit of spiciness but not too much, you can add some chilly flakes at the last step.

It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries. Tender tofu cooked in an aromatic and spicy sauce, accompanied by minced meat, Mapo tofu is one of the most popular ways to prepare tofu in China. Once I asked a group of non-Chinese friends who had experiences of real Chinese food: "What is your favourite tofu dish?" They all answered: "Mapo. This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants!

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