Hey everyone, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, easy not-spicy mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. The classic recipe consists of silken The common ingredients that you may not find in classic Chinese Mapo Tofu include miso.
Easy Not-Spicy Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Easy Not-Spicy Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have easy not-spicy mapo tofu using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Easy Not-Spicy Mapo Tofu:
- Prepare 1 block Tofu (silken or firm)
- Prepare 100 grams Ground meat (pork, chicken, or whatever you'd prefer)
- Prepare 1 tbsp Grated ginger
- Make ready 1 tbsp Grated garlic
- Take 1 tbsp Sesame oil
- Prepare 1/3 Japanese leek
- Get 1 tbsp Sesame oil (to finish, optional)
- Prepare Sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp Miso
- Make ready 1/2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tbsp Sake
- Take 2 tbsp Chinese soup stock
- Take 2 tbsp Katakuriko
- Prepare 300 ml Water
- Prepare For adults
- Prepare 1 tbsp Doubanjiang
- Make ready 1 as much (to taste) Ra-yu
You can add some mushrooms like oyster mushrooms or fresh shiitake mushrooms if you like They are kind of "meaty" in a way and perfect for spicy Sichuan dish like this. Tender tofu cooked in an aromatic and spicy sauce, accompanied by minced meat. This recipe shows you how to make Mapo tofu the authentic way. 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.
Instructions to make Easy Not-Spicy Mapo Tofu:
- Combine the sauce ingredients and mix. Finely chop the leek.
- Boil the tofu in salted water for a little bit beforehand, so that it's less likely to fall apart. Drain.
- Heat a frying pan, add the sesame oil, grated ginger and grated garlic, and stir fry briefly.
- Add the ground meat and stir fry until it's cooked through and crumbly. Add the chopped leek.
- Add the combined seasoning ingredients from Step 1 and mix well. When the sauce has thickened, add the tofu from Step 2 and simmer for a while longer.
- Once it is bubbling, add the optional sesame oil to finish.
- If you want to make it spicier for grownups, add doubanjiang to the flavoring ingredients. You can use sesame oil or ra-yu to finish.
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. 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..of a famous Chinese dish called mapo tofu, but that's not the case, and in fact, I'm pretty sure I was making this before I knew what mapo tofu was. I'm assuming that whatever I did get this idea from was most likely a version of mapo, but that's as far as it goes. Which reminds me, this is a great.
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