Ma Po Tofu
Ma Po Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, ma po tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Ma Po Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Ma Po Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

First of all, Ma Po Tofu's main flavor is the Sichuan peppercorn. Seriously, this is the main flavor of the dish. yet it doesn't appear in the list of ingredients. It's like someone who doesn't know how to cook chinese food ordered it once, and tried to copy it without having any knowledge of Sichuan cuisine.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have ma po tofu using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Ma Po Tofu:
  1. Take 200 grams Minced Pork
  2. Take 2 pack Silken Tofu
  3. Take 10 grams Ginger
  4. Get 1 piece Garlic
  5. Make ready 1/2 pieces Leek (Naganegi)
  6. Make ready As needed Spring Onion
  7. Make ready 2 tbsp Salad Oil (cooking Oil)
  8. Take <Ma Po Sauce>
  9. Get 2 tsp Chili Bean Sauce (If your kids do not like spicy one, use 1tsp Chili Bean Sauce)
  10. Take 2 tsp Hoisin Sauce
  11. Prepare 2 tsp Soy Sauce
  12. Prepare 1 tsp Oyster Sauce
  13. Get 1 tsp Sugar
  14. Make ready 1 tbsp Sake (Rice cooking wine)
  15. Get 2 tsp Chinese Soup Stock
  16. Make ready 100 ml Water
  17. Make ready <dissolved potato starch>
  18. Make ready 2 tsp Potato Starch
  19. Make ready 2 tsp Water

Variations exist with other ingredients such as water. 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. This recipe for ma po tofu, a Chinese stir-fry, is simple to make and good for you, too. Add a side of chilled melon and a cold glass of dry riesling for a satisfying supper.

Instructions to make Ma Po Tofu:
  1. Combine the Ma Po Sauce ingredients in a bowl. Mix Potato starch and water to make dissolved potato starch in another bowl.
  2. Mince Leek, ginger and garlic.
  3. Cut the Tofu into 2cm square. Boil it for 2 minutes with hot water and drain with hot water.
  4. Heat Salad Oil in a frying pan and add garlic, ginger and cook until tender over low heat. Add Leek and Minced Pork and fry until browned, add Ma Po Sauce into the pan.
  5. Put Tofu in the pan and mix gently so as not to destroy Tofu.
  6. Add dissolved potato starch. After that,put it in a plate.
  7. Hoisin Sauce SG$3.70/240g at FairPrice
  8. Chili Bean Sause SG$3.70/226g at FairPrice

Use your spatula to gently toss the tofu in the sauce. Add the sesame oil and sugar (if using) along with the scallions and stir until the scallions are just wilted. Serve with a last sprinkle of Sichuan peppercorn powder as a garnish if desired. For marinating, soft tofu is more fitful than firm tofu and for stir-frying and deep frying, firm tofu is better than soft tofu. Ingredient tips. doubanjiang (豆瓣酱), the soul of Sichuan cuisine, is also known as broad bean paste.

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