Mapo Tofu.
You can cook Mapo Tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.
Ingredients of Mapo Tofu
- You need of tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one).
- It's of minced beef.
- Prepare of Szechuan bean paste.
- You need of sliced ginger.
- Prepare of some scallions.
- It's of Szechuan peppercorn.
- You need of chopped dried chili.
- Prepare of chili sauce.
- It's of starch.
- Prepare of some black pepper.
- You need of salt.
- You need of light soy sauce.
- It's of 1 spoon sesame oil.
Mapo Tofu instructions
- Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside.
- Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts.
- Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse.
- Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu.
