Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:
- Make ready 500 g soft to medium-firm tofu
- Make ready 12 dried black mushrooms
- Take 80 g fermented black beans
- Take 4 cloves garlic, chopped
- Prepare 8 cm ginger, chopped
- Prepare 4 dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped
- Get 4 scallions, sliced diagonally
- Prepare 4 g Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed
- Get 80 g chili bean paste
- Take 20 g Chinese cooking wine
- Prepare 20 g light soy sauce
- Make ready 20 g sesame oil
- Make ready 20 g sugar
- Get 8 g corn starch
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Steps to make Mapo Tofu:
- 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.
- Chop the ginger and garlic, and crush the black beans slightly.
- Stir fry the mushrooms and black beans on high heat in some peanut oil until slightly crispy and fragrant.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Serves 3-4 on its own or 6-8 as a part of a spread.
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