Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mapo tofu at home. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu at Home is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Mapo Tofu at Home is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo tofu at home using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu at Home:

1. Prepare 200 grams Mixed ground beef and pork (or just pork)
2. Get 1 block Tofu
3. Prepare 1/2 of a small Onion
4. Prepare 5 cm White part of a leek
5. Prepare 1 piece/clove each Ginger and garlic
6. Take 1 dash Chinese garlic chives
7. Get 1 heaping teaspoon Doubanjiang
8. Get 1 tsp of each ● Chinese soup stock, miso
9. Prepare 1/4 tsp ● Salt
10. Take 1 1/2 tsp ● Sugar
11. Prepare 1/2 tbsp ● Sesame oil
12. Prepare 1 tbsp ● Soy sauce
13. Make ready 1 tbsp ● Sweet chili sauce
14. Get 1 tbsp ● Ketchup
15. Make ready 100 ml ● Water or hot water
16. Get 1 tbsp ☆ Katakuriko
17. Make ready 2 tbsp ☆ Water

Steps to make Mapo Tofu at Home:

1. Finely chop the leek, garlic and ginger.
2. Combine the ● ingredients.
3. Flavor the ground meat with 1 tablespoon each of soy sauce and sake (not listed).
4. Heat vegetable oil (not listed) in a frying pan, and stir fry the ginger and garlic, being careful not to let it burn.
5. When it is fragrant, add the ground meat, and stir fry until it changes color.
6. Add the onion and leek, as well as the doubanjiang. The doubanjiang will spit a bit, so be careful.
7. Cut the tofu into bite sized pieces and put on a plate. Microwave without covering for 2 to 3 minutes at 500 W to expel excess water.
8. When the onion has softened, add the ● sauce and the tofu, and simmer for a few minutes. While it's simmering, drizzle in the katakuriko slurry. Stir in the Chinese garlic chives, turn off the heat, and it's done.
9. The photo here shows a mapo tofu rice bowl.
10. The next day, the sauce will stiffened up to a meat-miso sauce consistency, so I combined it with rice for mapo fried rice.

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