Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, simple mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

If you know the Chinese name of Mapo tofu(麻婆豆腐), the answer might be tofu made by mapo or is mapo is kind of flavor. At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who own a restaurant mainly selling vegetarian dishes.

Simple Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Simple Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook simple mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Simple Mapo Tofu:

1. Make ready 1 box silk tofu
2. Get 200 gr minced beef
3. Prepare 4 pc dried mushroom (keep the water) - keep in the water for 15min and diced
4. Take 350 ml water (I used that mushroom water)
5. Prepare 1 tbs cornstarch
6. Get 2 minced garlic
7. Get 1 cm ginger (minced)
8. Take 1/2 tbs white pepper
9. Take 1 tbs chilli flakes
10. Prepare 1 tbs sugar
11. Get 1 tbs soy sauce
12. Take 1 1/2 tbs chilli sauce
13. Make ready 1 1/2 tbs ketchup
14. Get 1 tsb sesame oil
15. Get Oils

Stir occasionally and heat until fragrant. Recipe courtesy of Fresh Tastes 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. Try using firm or extra firm tofu instead of soft tofu. Although non-traditional, you can add onions or vegetables like bok choy.

Steps to make Simple Mapo Tofu:

1. Mix the sauces, ketchup, sugar, chilli flakes, and pepper.
2. Heat oils and sesame oil, stir fry garlic and ginger. Put minced beef inside and stir until brownish. Add the water till boiling.
3. Put sauces and tofu inside. Keep boiling and last, put cornstarch until the sauce thicken.
4. Enjoy with warm rice 😄

TIPS FOR MAKING THE BEST MAPO TOFU. Mapo tofu is a delicious make-ahead dish with flavors improving overnight. Interestingly, Mapo means pock-marked (ma zi) popo (grandmother in Chinese). Apparently, the irony of the dish is this - the original version was served at a restaurant in Chengdu run by an old lady with pockmarks! Our Mapo Tofu recipe remains one of the most popular recipes we've posted on the blog to date.

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