Simple Way to Make Favorite Mapo Tofu at Home
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As for the number of servings that can be served to make Mapo Tofu at Home is 2 servings. So make sure this portion is enough to serve for yourself and your beloved family.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Mapo Tofu at Home using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
I wanted to eat delicious mapo doufu, so I experimented with the ingredient combinations.
If you don't have sweet chili sauce, you can increase the ketchup to 2 tablespoons, but it will be better with sweet chili sauce.
When you cook the ginger and garlic, if you tilt the frying pan so that you are sort of deep-frying them while stir-frying, they will not burn so easily. This is a trick I learned at an Italian restaurant where I used to work. Recipe by youichie
Ingredients and spices that need to be Get to make Mapo Tofu at Home:
- 200 grams Mixed ground beef and pork (or just pork)
- 1 block Tofu
- 1/2 of a small Onion
- 5 cm White part of a leek
- 1 piece/clove each Ginger and garlic
- 1 dash Chinese garlic chives
- 1 heaping teaspoon Doubanjiang
- 1 tsp of each ● Chinese soup stock, miso
- 1/4 tsp ● Salt
- 1 1/2 tsp ● Sugar
- 1/2 tbsp ● Sesame oil
- 1 tbsp ● Soy sauce
- 1 tbsp ● Sweet chili sauce
- 1 tbsp ● Ketchup
- 100 ml ● Water or hot water
- 1 tbsp ☆ Katakuriko
- 2 tbsp ☆ Water
Instructions to make Mapo Tofu at Home
- Finely chop the leek, garlic and ginger.
- Combine the ● ingredients.
- Flavor the ground meat with 1 tablespoon each of soy sauce and sake (not listed).
- Heat vegetable oil (not listed) in a frying pan, and stir fry the ginger and garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
- When it is fragrant, add the ground meat, and stir fry until it changes color.
- Add the onion and leek, as well as the doubanjiang. The doubanjiang will spit a bit, so be careful.
- 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.
- 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.
- The photo here shows a mapo tofu rice bowl.
- 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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