Simple Mapo Tofu
Simple Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, simple mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Simple Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Simple Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

If you know the Chinese name of Mapo tofu(麻婆豆腐), the answer might be tofu made by mapo or is mapo is kind of flavor. At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who own a restaurant mainly selling vegetarian dishes.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have simple mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Mapo Tofu:
  1. Make ready 1 box silk tofu
  2. Prepare 200 gr minced beef
  3. Get 4 pc dried mushroom (keep the water) - keep in the water for 15min and diced
  4. Get 350 ml water (I used that mushroom water)
  5. Prepare 1 tbs cornstarch
  6. Get 2 minced garlic
  7. Take 1 cm ginger (minced)
  8. Take 1/2 tbs white pepper
  9. Make ready 1 tbs chilli flakes
  10. Get 1 tbs sugar
  11. Prepare 1 tbs soy sauce
  12. Take 1 1/2 tbs chilli sauce
  13. Take 1 1/2 tbs ketchup
  14. Prepare 1 tsb sesame oil
  15. Take Oils

Stir occasionally and heat until fragrant. Recipe courtesy of Fresh Tastes Mapo Tofu can be found in almost any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. Try using firm or extra firm tofu instead of soft tofu. Although non-traditional, you can add onions or vegetables like bok choy.

Steps to make Simple Mapo Tofu:
  1. Mix the sauces, ketchup, sugar, chilli flakes, and pepper.
  2. Heat oils and sesame oil, stir fry garlic and ginger. Put minced beef inside and stir until brownish. Add the water till boiling.
  3. Put sauces and tofu inside. Keep boiling and last, put cornstarch until the sauce thicken.
  4. Enjoy with warm rice πŸ˜„

TIPS FOR MAKING THE BEST MAPO TOFU. Mapo tofu is a delicious make-ahead dish with flavors improving overnight. Our Mapo Tofu recipe remains one of the most popular recipes we've posted on the blog to date. Indeed, mapo tofu is one of the most famous tofu recipes to have made it out of China. This spicy, delicious dish usually includes small amount of ground pork, but for this vegan version, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms.

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