Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, very simple mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
JOC's all-time favorite dish, and it frequently makes it into my dinner menu rotation. SO simple and fast, and more importantly, very delicious! I'm not surprised it's a favorite in your family! #tefal #tefalsupercook Rainy season is back. and we feel like having something spicy.
Very Simple Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Very Simple Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook very simple mapo tofu using 11 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Very Simple Mapo Tofu:
- Make ready 2 blocks Tofu
- Take 50 grams Minced pork
- Prepare 1 cm piece Ginger
- Take 1 clove Garlic
- Prepare 1/2 The white part of a Japanese leek
- Get 1 add (to taste) ☆ Dried red chili flakes
- Take 3 tbsp ☆Soy sauce
- Prepare 1 tsp ☆Miso
- Prepare 1 tsp ☆Sugar
- Make ready 50 ml ☆Water
- Take 1 ☆Katakuriko
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. 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.
Steps to make Very Simple Mapo Tofu:
- Preparation: 1) Chop the ginger, garlic and white part of the leek finely. 2) Slice the tofu into bite-sized portions. 3) Mix together the soy sauce, miso and sugar.
- Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan. Fry the prepared ginger, garlic, leek and chili flakes. When they start to release their aroma, add the minced pork. Break up the minced pork and fry until crumbly. When the pork turns golden, add the mixed seasonings and let the pork absorb the flavors.
- Stir in the tofu and add water. Bring it to the boil and add the katakuriko to thicken. At the end, sprinkle on a little sesame oil to enhance the flavor of the dish.
It's very salty and gives mapo tofu a characteristic taste that can't be easily replicated with other ingredients. Since this paste is spicy, it's not necessary to add chili peppers to the sauce; the Mapo tofu would also go well with an Asian cucumber salad or a simple green salad with ginger dressing. 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.
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