Recipe of Award-winning Mapo tofu

Mapo tofu.

Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to make a distinctive dish, mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Mapo tofu is something which I've loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo tofu:

1. {Take 1 block of soft or medium soft tofu (cut up into cubes).
2. {Prepare 2 tbsp of corn flour (optional).
3. {Get 200 g of mince beef or pork or chicken.
4. {Make ready 2 tsp of soysauce.
5. {Prepare 2 tsp of grated ginger (or ginger powder).
6. {Prepare 1 tsp of sugar.
7. {Get 1 tsp of sesame oil.
8. {Prepare 1 of spring onions (finely chopped).
9. {Make ready 1 clove of garlic (finely chopped).
10. {Get 2 tbsp of vegetable cooking oil.
11. {Prepare of Ground black pepper.
12. {Get 1 tsp of spicy Bean paste (optional).
13. {Take 2 tsp of chilli oil (can check my recipe).

Instructions to make Mapo tofu:

1. Coated your tofu lightly with corn flour then leave them aside. On medium heat non stick pan, add vegetable cooking oil in. Once your oil hot add tofu in and leave them cook for 5 min (don’t try to turn at this point) once you see tofu crisp up at the bottom you can start to turn them over and this is help tofu not get stuck on the pan and come off easily..
2. Cook for another 5-8 min on the other side and remove you tofu on a plate lay with kitchen towel..
3. Same pan, add garlic, stir well then add mince beef, soysauce, grated ginger, spicy bean paste, sugar and chilli oil..
4. Add tofu back in and add some sesame seeds, sprinkle on top with spring onions and stir well. Ps.this is chilli bean paste I use (photo attached).
5. Serve with some cooked jasmine rice. It’s so delicious and comforting..

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