Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, spicy mapo tofu (healthier version). One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version) is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version) is something that I have loved my entire life.
Mapo tofu (pronounced mapo doufu in Mandarin, 麻婆豆腐) originates from China's Sichuan Province. Legend has it that an old woman in Sichuan was known for serving a delicious tofu dish. This woman had one distinguishing physical characteristic: pock marks covered her face.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook spicy mapo tofu (healthier version) using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version):
- Get 1 piece soft silken organic tofu (package)
- Take 3 piece green onion
- Make ready 1 head garlic
- Take 1 piece ginger freshly peeled (size of thumb )
- Make ready 1 lb ground pork
- Get 2 star anise
- Make ready 1 salt
- Take 1 black pepper or white pepper
- Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Take 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp garlic chili sauce
- Take 1 tbsp sirracha
- Prepare 1/2 cup shaoxing rice wine
- Get 1/2 can chicken stock
- Get 2 tbsp avocado oil
- Prepare 1 tsp cayenne pepper powder
- Get 1 tsp chili powder
- Take 1 tbsp crushed red pepper
- Prepare 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
- Get 1 bunch cilantro chopped discard stem
- Take 1 tbsp cornstarch mixed in 2 tablespoons cold water
- Get 10 piece dry red chilis
- Get 3 cup white rice
Crispy tofu cubes with a hint of heat and plenty of honey sweetness! Mapo tofu is one of the signature dish from Sichuan, China. Silky soft tofu swimming in delicous spicy sauce. Mapo tofu is also a dish that very easy to turning into plant based/vegetarian dish.
Instructions to make Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version):
- Finely chop green onion, peeled garlic and peeled ginger. Set aside.
- Combine ground pork, salt and pepper to taste,cayenne, chili powder and pour in Shao xing rice wine, dark soy sauce and set aside to marinate for 10 min
- In a hot wok, pour in avocado oil. Sautee green onion, garlic and ginger until aromatic. Be careful not to brown the garlic
- Add in ground pork mixture and brown.
- When pork is cooked, add in star anise, crushed red pepper, dry red chilis, oyster sauce, hoisin, chili garlic sauce, sirracha, and chicken broth. Let everything combine and bring to a boil.
- Cut tofu into 1/2 inch cubes and add to pork mixture. Let boil for 5 min. Taste it to see if more salt needed
- Add cornstarch slurry to mixture. Let boil for 1 min. Remove from heat, pour into casserole dish and top with freshly chopped cilantro
- Make steamed rice on the side. And serve together
All you have to do is us different protein, vegetarian oyster sauce and veggie. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) is named after its inventor Mapo (means pockmarked elderly lady) who Both of Sichuan chilli bean paste (aka spicy Doubanjiang) and chilli powder contribute to the spiciness. In the authentic version of Mapo tofu, beef or pork mince are used to enhance the flavour. One bite and you'll be hooked on this spicy Schezwan MaPo Tofu! A vegetarian version of a traditional Sichuan recipe that you can The first time my husband and I tried MaPo Tofu at a local Sichuan (you might also see it spelled Schezwan) restaurant, we were hooked!
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