How to Make Jamie Oliver Mapo Tofu

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

Mapo Tofu can be found in almost any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. Marc Matsumoto of NoRecipes shares the story. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries. Personally I like to cook this dish at home from time to time especially in cool seasons such as winter and fall.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Make ready 1 box tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one)
2. Prepare 50 g minced beef
3. Take 2 spoons Szechuan bean paste
4. Make ready 3 sliced ginger
5. Get some scallions
6. Make ready 2 spoon Szechuan peppercorn
7. Prepare 1 chopped dried chili
8. Take 1 spoon chili sauce
9. Make ready 2 spoons starch
10. Take some black pepper
11. Take salt
12. Take 1 spoon light soy sauce
13. Make ready 1 spoon sesame oil

PBS star Martin Yan's mapo tofu recipe is fast and topped with an addictively spicy chile sauce—so the dish completely outshines the Chinese takeout version. Mapo Tofu is a classic dish hailing from the area of Sichuan in China. This amazing dish has soft and tender tofu pieces mixed in with ground pork while being seasoned with a bunch of spice. It's a very flavorful dish that is incredibly easy to make.

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. 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
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts
3. 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
4. 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

This amazing dish has soft and tender tofu pieces mixed in with ground pork while being seasoned with a bunch of spice. It's a very flavorful dish that is incredibly easy to make. And in this recipe, we will show you how to make it as authentic as possible. Poach tofu: Slide tofu into a saucepan of simmering water and keep at a bare simmer while stir-frying rest of dish. Stir-fry pork: Heat a wok or large heavy skillet over high heat until hot and.

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