How to Prepare Tasty Mapo Tofu

Mapo Tofu.

You can have Mapo Tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Mapo Tofu

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

Mapo Tofu instructions

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..