Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it's Louise, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we're going to make a special dish, Mapo Tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It's easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They're fine and they look wonderful.

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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Mapo Tofu is 4 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have Mapo Tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Mapo tofu can be varied infinitely. Since I prefer cooking without meat, here is a vegan version that uses wood ear mushrooms. Very simple to prepare, and proper hot, numbing and delicious.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Mapo Tofu:

1. 500 g soft to medium-firm tofu
2. 12 dried black mushrooms
3. 80 g fermented black beans
4. 4 cloves garlic, chopped
5. 8 cm ginger, chopped
6. 4 dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped
7. 4 scallions, sliced diagonally
8. 4 g Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed
9. 80 g chili bean paste
10. 20 g Chinese cooking wine
11. 20 g light soy sauce
12. 20 g sesame oil
13. 20 g sugar
14. 8 g corn starch

Steps to make to make Mapo Tofu

1. Soak the black mushrooms in 0.4 l water for 20 minutes, wring out the excess water back in the bowl and chop the mushrooms. Reserve the mushroom flavoured water for the sauce.
2. Chop the ginger and garlic, and crush the black beans slightly.
3. Stir fry the mushrooms and black beans on high heat in some peanut oil until slightly crispy and fragrant.
4. Lower the heat, add the chopped ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and chili, and stir fry until fragrant and the garlic starts to brown.
5. Mix the mushroom water with the chili bean paste, wine, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar and add the sauce to the wok and let simmer for a few minutes.
6. Cut the tofu in inch sized cubes and add them to the sauce, stirring carefully to avoid breaking them. Let simmer on low heat until the tofu is heated through.
7. Mix the corn starch with some cold water and add to the wok, and continue to simmer until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon.
8. Adjust hotness with chili oil, "mala" (the numbing quality of the Sichuan pepper) with more Sichuan pepper, saltiness with salt and sweetness with sugar. Garnish with the scallion greens.
9. Serves 3-4 on its own or 6-8 as a part of a spread.

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