Hello everybody, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

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

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

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