Mapo Tofu.
You can cook Mapo Tofu using 11 ingredients and 2 steps. Here is how you achieve it.
Ingredients of Mapo Tofu
- It's 200 gms of minced pork.
- It's 450 gms of silken tofu cut in 1 inch cubes.
- You need 2/3 cup of chicken/ vegetable broth or plain water.
- It's 1 tsp of corn starch.
- It's 3 tbsp of ginger minced.
- You need 3 tbsp of garlic minced.
- You need 6-8 of dried red chillies roughly chopped, or you could use 1-2 tsp of chillie flakes.
- Prepare 1 tsp of sichuan pepper coarsely ground.
- It's 1/4 tsp of sugar.
- It's 1/4 tsp of sesame oil.
- It's 2-3 tbsp of oil depending on the fattiness in pork.
Mapo Tofu instructions
- Heat oil in your wok over medium heat. Add your ground Sichuan peppercorns and stir occasionally for 30 seconds. Add the ginger, garlic, chillies fry until aromatic about 1-2 minute, then turn heat to high and add the ground pork. Break up the meat and fry it until it’s cooked through. add broth/water and let it come to a boil; turn heat to medium and let it continue to simmer. Meanwhile in 1/4cup of water add corn starch and mix thoroughly. Now add cornstarch mixture to the broth and stir..
- Let it continue to simmer and thicken slightly. Once slightly thick, add tofu, give a light stir, let it continue to cook for about 5 minutes, now stir in sesame oil and sugar, turn heat off, garnish with green onions and coriander and serve with a steaming hot bowl of boiled rice..
