Mapo Tofu

Name: Mapo Tofu
Total time: 15 min
Yield: 1
Cuisine: Chinese
Ingredients: 500g tofu; 100g Pork (lean); 1 tablespoon oil; 1 tablespoon salt; 10g pepper; 10g ginger; 10g starch; 3 pieces Garlic sprouts

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Favorite

Difficulty

Easy

Time

15m

Serving

Mapo Tofu (English name: Mapo Tofu), also known as Chen Mapo Tofu, is one of the traditional dishes of the Han people in Sichuan Province. The main ingredients are tofu, minced meat, chili, and Chinese pepper.
Mapo Tofu was founded in the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty by Chen Liu, the proprietor of the "Chen Xingsheng Restaurant" in Wanfuqiao, Chengdu. Because there are a few pockmarks on her face, she is called Mapo Tofu.
The appearance of Mapo tofu is deep red and bright, with red, white and green contrasting. The tofu is not rotten in shape. It tastes numb, spicy, hot, tender, crisp, fragrant, and fresh, highlighting the "spicy" characteristics of Sichuan cuisine.

Ingredients

500g Tofu
100g Pork (lean)
1 tablespoon Oil

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1 tablespoon Salt

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10g Pepper

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10g Ginger

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10g Starch
3 pieces Garlic Sprouts

Mapo Tofu

1. Materials are ready

2. Garlic, ginger, mince, garlic sprouts cut into small pieces

3. Tofu cut into small pieces

4. Mince the tenderloin. In fact, you can use some fat to make it more delicious.

5. Chop the Pixian bean paste, the more minced the better, please don’t omit this step

6. Put oil in the pot and heat it to 70% hot.

7. Add the chopped Pixian bean paste and fry the red oil. This is very important. Stir in a small pot slowly, and the red oil is very beautiful.

8. . After fry the red oil, add minced ginger garlic and minced meat

9. Stir-fry the minced meat as much as possible

10. Stir-fry the minced meat and add the cut tofu.

11. After the tofu is evenly stir-fried, add 200 ml of water and cook on low heat for 5 minutes

12. Distilled starch

13. After five minutes, add the garlic seedlings and stir-fry evenly

14. Add water starch and simmer for two minutes, stir-fry evenly.

15. . Ma Po tofu with minced meat is complete, beautiful and ready for dinner! If you like to eat peppercorns, you can sprinkle the peppercorn noodles on the plate and pour some hot oil!