Mapo Tofu

Name: Mapo Tofu
Total time: 10 min
Yield: 2
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 1/2 a catty tofu; Some Minced meat; Some Garlic sprouts; Some ginger; Some salt; Some Oyster sauce; Some Cooking Wine; Some Peppercorns; Some Pixian Douban; Some Sugar; Some Chicken Essence; Some Minced chili; Some Minced garlic; Some Extremely delicious; Some starch

by Kyushu Happy

4.8 (1)

Favorite

Difficulty

Normal

Time

10m

Serving

2

Mapo tofu was created by Liu, the wife of Chen Senfu (in other words, Chen Fuchun), the owner of a small restaurant in Wanfuqiao, northern suburbs of Chengdu, in the early years of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty. Liu's face has pitting, and he is called Chen Mapo. The roasted tofu she created was called "Chen Mapo Tofu", and her small restaurant was later named "Chen Mapo Tofu Shop". In 1909, Chengdu Popular Newspaper published the "Chengdu General View" (by Qing Fu Chongju), which included this store and "Chen Mapo's Tofu" in 23 stores with the same reputation as Baoxiguan Zhengxingyuan and Zhongtangyuan. The famous food store in Chengdu". Books such as "Jincheng Zhuzhi Ci" and "Old Records of Furong Dialects" all describe the history of Chen Mapo's creation of Mapo tofu. The poet Feng Jiaji's "Jincheng Zhuzhi Ci" at the end of the Qing Dynasty said: "The Mapo Chen is still famous, the tofu is the most refined, the curtain of Wanfu Bridge is moving, and the drunken Mr. Heguchun". "

Mapo Tofu

1. Cut the tofu into small pieces and soak in salt water for 10 minutes

2. Prepare seasonings (minced garlic, minced ginger, minced pepper,), garlic sprouts and knife

3. Heat the peppercorns in a dry pan to fragrant and set aside

4. Minced meat with oyster sauce, very delicious, marinated in starch

5. Start cooking oil (add some heavy oil),

6. The oil is 70% hot, add the peppercorns and sauté fragrant and remove. A spoonful of Pixian watercress exceeds the red oil. Add the minced garlic, minced ginger, and minced pepper to fragrant.

7. Put the minced meat in the pot, add cooking wine, sugar, and stir fry. After the minced meat turns white, put the tofu into the pot

8. Add the stock to collect the juice

9. Put the garlic sprouts into the pot, thicken the water starch

10. It's done! ! ! ! !

Tips:
1: After the peppercorns are heated and roasted in a dry pot, the fragrance will be more intense

2: Tofu is soaked in salt water for 10 minutes, not easy to fry

3: Try not to stir-fry tofu with a shovel during the frying process