Mapo Tofu at Home
Mapo Tofu at Home

Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu at home. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu at Home is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Tofu at Home is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook mapo tofu at home using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu at Home:
  1. Make ready 200 grams Mixed ground beef and pork (or just pork)
  2. Take 1 block Tofu
  3. Get 1/2 of a small Onion
  4. Make ready 5 cm White part of a leek
  5. Get 1 piece/clove each Ginger and garlic
  6. Get 1 dash Chinese garlic chives
  7. Take 1 heaping teaspoon Doubanjiang
  8. Take 1 tsp of each ● Chinese soup stock, miso
  9. Get 1/4 tsp ● Salt
  10. Get 1 1/2 tsp ● Sugar
  11. Prepare 1/2 tbsp ● Sesame oil
  12. Get 1 tbsp ● Soy sauce
  13. Get 1 tbsp ● Sweet chili sauce
  14. Prepare 1 tbsp ● Ketchup
  15. Make ready 100 ml ● Water or hot water
  16. Take 1 tbsp ☆ Katakuriko
  17. Get 2 tbsp ☆ Water
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu at Home:
  1. Finely chop the leek, garlic and ginger.
  2. Combine the ● ingredients.
  3. Flavor the ground meat with 1 tablespoon each of soy sauce and sake (not listed).
  4. Heat vegetable oil (not listed) in a frying pan, and stir fry the ginger and garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
  5. When it is fragrant, add the ground meat, and stir fry until it changes color.
  6. Add the onion and leek, as well as the doubanjiang. The doubanjiang will spit a bit, so be careful.
  7. Cut the tofu into bite sized pieces and put on a plate. Microwave without covering for 2 to 3 minutes at 500 W to expel excess water.
  8. When the onion has softened, add the ● sauce and the tofu, and simmer for a few minutes. While it's simmering, drizzle in the katakuriko slurry. Stir in the Chinese garlic chives, turn off the heat, and it's done.
  9. The photo here shows a mapo tofu rice bowl.
  10. The next day, the sauce will stiffened up to a meat-miso sauce consistency, so I combined it with rice for mapo fried rice.

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