Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine)
Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine)

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Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine) is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

doubanjiang (豆瓣酱), the soul of Sichuan cuisine, is also known as broad bean paste. It is the essential ingredient for real Szechuan mapo tofu. Real Szechuan doubanjiang is full of flavor after long time of fermentation.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have chinese mapo tofu (sichuan cuisine) using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
  1. Prepare 300 g tofu (1 box)
  2. Take 100 g ground pork (or beef, chicken)
  3. Get 1 green onion
  4. Get 1/2 tbsp garlic (minced)
  5. Make ready 1/2 tbsp ginger (minced)
  6. Prepare For braising
  7. Take 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder
  8. Prepare 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder
  9. Take 1/8 tsp white pepper
  10. Take 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce)
  11. Prepare 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
  12. Get 1 tbsp corn starch
  13. Get 2 tbsp water (mix with corn starch)
  14. Prepare 1/2 cup water
  15. Make ready 1 tsp sugar
  16. Take 1 tsp sesame oil

Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension, based on douban (fermented broad bean and chili paste) and douchi (fermented black beans), along with minced meat, traditionally beef. Variations exist with other ingredients such as water. Bring a large amount of water to a boil and then add a pinch of salt.

Instructions to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
  1. Cut tofu into 2cm cubes. Slice green onion into small pieces, separate white part and green part. Mince garlic and ginger.
  2. Mix 1 tbsp corn starch and 2 tbsp water.
  3. Heat 1 tbsp vegetable oil, add ground pork, stir fry for a while, then add garlic, ginger and half of 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder, 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder, 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce), sugar, white part of green onion, stir fry for 1 minute.
  4. Pour 1/2 cup of water in, add tofu, gently push tofu with spatula, then cook for 5 minutes over low heat.
  5. Mix cornstarch water, swirl it into the wok, gently stir till sauce thickens. Before serving, add pinch of Sichuan peppercorns powder, pinch of white peppers, add green part of green onion, 1 tsp sesame oil. Then transfer to a serving plate or bowl.
  6. Serve with steamed rice.
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Chinese name: 麻婆豆腐 (má pó dòu fu) Style: Sichuan Cuisine Ma Po Tofu is the most well-known among the spicy and hot dishes of Sichuan Cuisine. The easy Mapo Tofu recipe below uses tofu, ground beef, chopped chili peppers, and broad bean paste. Chen of the restaurant, has pockmarks on her face. Since pockmark is pronounced as Ma and Po mean old lady is Chinese, the customers named the tofu dish after her nickname as Mapo tofu. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) is named after its inventor Mapo (means pockmarked elderly lady) who ran a small restaurant over a century ago in Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan province.

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