Tofu and Shrimp Salt-Flavored Mapo Tofu with Crunchy Crispy Toppings
Tofu and Shrimp Salt-Flavored Mapo Tofu with Crunchy Crispy Toppings

Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, tofu and shrimp salt-flavored mapo tofu with crunchy crispy toppings. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Tofu and Shrimp Salt-Flavored Mapo Tofu with Crunchy Crispy Toppings is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Tofu and Shrimp Salt-Flavored Mapo Tofu with Crunchy Crispy Toppings is something which I have loved my whole life.

Tofu sadly has the reputation of being bland, but one bite of this blazing hot stir-fry and you'll thank your lucky stars for the rich, creamy cubes of tender tofu that soothe your scorched tongue. Finally, I like to be able to eat my Mapo Tofu with rice and chopsticks, so I make the sauce a little on the thick side. 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook tofu and shrimp salt-flavored mapo tofu with crunchy crispy toppings using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Tofu and Shrimp Salt-Flavored Mapo Tofu with Crunchy Crispy Toppings:
  1. Get 1 block Tofu
  2. Take 12 Shrimp
  3. Get 20 grams Frozen green peas
  4. Take 1 piece ◎ Carrot (minced)
  5. Prepare 1 piece ◎ Ginger (minced)
  6. Get 1 tbsp ◎ Green onion (minced)
  7. Make ready 1/4 to 1/2 teaspoons Doubanjiang
  8. Make ready 200 ml ■ Water
  9. Take 1 1/2 tsp ■ Chicken soup stock granules
  10. Take 1/4 tsp ■ Salt
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp ■ Sake
  12. Take 1 tbsp Sesame oil
  13. Make ready 1 Katakuriko slurry
  14. Take 1 Tempura crumbs and green onion for garnish

Cook until the garlic is crisp and golden brown but not burned. Drain the tofu and place on a serving plate with Prepare the toppings by finely chopping the crispy bacon, walnuts, and scallion and mixing with the minced ginger. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice.

Steps to make Tofu and Shrimp Salt-Flavored Mapo Tofu with Crunchy Crispy Toppings:
  1. Drain the water from the tofu very well. Peel the shrimp, remove the intestinal tracts. Sprinkle with a little sake (not listed) and massage the shrimp well. If you need to make tempura crumbs do it now: Fry some tempura batter by drizzling it into hot oil, then take out and drain well.
  2. Heat up the sesame oil in a frying pan, add the ingredients marked with ◎ and stir fry until aromatic. Add the doubanjiang and stir fry lightly.
  3. Add the ingredients marked with ■ and bring to a boil. Add the green peas.
  4. Add the tofu that has been cut into easy to eat pieces, and shake the frying pan.
  5. When it comes to a boil again, add the shrimp. When they change color turn off the heat. Add the katakuriko slurry, stir gently, then turn the heat on again and cook until the sauce has thickened.
  6. Transfer to a serving plate and top with tempura crumbs and thinly sliced green onion.
  7. This is a version where the tempura crumbs are simmered in the sauce. I just changed used red chili peppers to doubanjiang. Otherwise all the other amounts are the same. It's also delicious served over rice (enough for 2 servings).

I love cooking mapo tofu for a quick lunch or dinner. Sometimes I double the meat and sauce, so it will be enough to serve two. Mix all ingredients, arrange tofu on the large plate, and place on top the shirmps pasted. Over recent years, Mapo tofu started appearing on the menus of oversea Chinese restaurants. Mapo tofu needs to be served hot for the best taste.

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