Hello everybody, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, chinese mapo tofu (sichuan cuisine). It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Authentic Szechuan style mapo tofu is one of the branding dishes of Szechuan cuisine. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. 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.
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To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. 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):
- Make ready 300 g tofu (1 box)
- Make ready 100 g ground pork (or beef, chicken)
- Take 1 green onion
- Take 1/2 tbsp garlic (minced)
- Take 1/2 tbsp ginger (minced)
- Make ready For braising
- Make ready 1/3 tsp Sichuan peppercorns powder
- Get 1/8 tsp chinese five spices powder
- Make ready 1/8 tsp white pepper
- Get 1 tbsp doubanjiang (chilli bean sauce)
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tbsp corn starch
- Take 2 tbsp water (mix with corn starch)
- Prepare 1/2 cup water
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
- Make ready 1 tsp sesame oil
Mapo tofu, one of the most notable regional Chinese dishes has become a popular Sichuan dish around the world. Mapo tofu is a combination of tender tofu and spicy chili-and-bean-based sauce, sprinkled with minced meat, usually pork or beef, and topped with some chopped scallion pieces. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan Province, where spicy food is king and the signature spice of the region–the Sichuan Peppercorn–gives dishes a unique "numbing" effect. It's almost like the Sichuan peppercorns are there to not only add their fragrance and flavor, but also to.
Instructions to make Chinese Mapo Tofu (Sichuan Cuisine):
- Cut tofu into 2cm cubes. Slice green onion into small pieces, separate white part and green part. Mince garlic and ginger.
- Mix 1 tbsp corn starch and 2 tbsp water.
- 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.
- Pour 1/2 cup of water in, add tofu, gently push tofu with spatula, then cook for 5 minutes over low heat.
- 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.
- Serve with steamed rice.
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The easy Mapo Tofu recipe below uses tofu, ground beef, chopped chili peppers, and broad bean paste. Its characteristics can be well expressed with the following terms: spicy, hot, delicious, tender and fresh. The dish is not only popular among domestic diners, but also attracts more and more. Mapo Tofu is a Chinese dish but it is also very popular in Japan. The dish goes great with steamed rice! [recipe].
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