Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, mabo dofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Ground pork and tofu are stir-fried with ginger, garlic, oyster sauce, and Chinese bean paste to make a favorite home-style dish that's warming and comforting. Serve with white rice, and sprinkle with chopped green onion. Mabo Tofu (or Mapo Tofu) is one of the very popular Chinese dishes in Japan.

Mabo Dofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Mabo Dofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook mabo dofu using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mabo Dofu:

1. Prepare Flour-Water Slurry
2. Take 1/4 c flour
3. Get 1/3 to 1/2 c of water
4. Make ready Seasoning
5. Make ready to taste (sea) salt
6. Take 1 tsp garlic powder
7. Get 1/4 c dashi (dried Japanese fish stock) or 1-2 tbsp of miso or 1-2 chicken bouillion [this is really to taste, since it's used to add the most savory flavour]
8. Get 1 pinch turmeric powder (for color) OPTIONAL
9. Get 1 pinch paprika (for color) OPTIONAL
10. Get 2 tbsp ground chili or 1 tbsp of fresh spicy pepper (I use habanero) OPTIONAL
11. Take 2 tbsp soy sauce
12. Take 1 tbsp sesame oil
13. Take Filling
14. Prepare 4 baby bok choy, sliced or diced
15. Make ready 1 1/2 stalks celery, sliced or diced
16. Take 1-2 cloves garlic, minced
17. Get 1 1/2 box soft tofu, cut into small cubes
18. Make ready 1/2 lb ground beef or other (about beef/pork/turkey: be sure to "cut" into small pieces when cooking so you don't end up with meat clumped together)

Variations exist with other ingredients such as water. Japanese Mabo Dofu There are many versions of Mabo Dofu within Japan and each household cooks it differently. The common ingredients that you may not find in classic Chinese Mapo Tofu include miso (Japanese fermented soybeans, sometimes rice and barley included), mirin or sugar, and sesame oil. 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.

Instructions to make Mabo Dofu:

1. In a small bowl mix the water and flour, gradually adding the flour. Be sure that it's not too thin or too thick. Set aside mixture for later. - - Note: It should feel like you've added a bit of water to some honey, still somewhat thick but moves a lot smoother.
2. In a pan, add some oil and saute the meat until brown. Season lightly with salt. Add the veggies and cook till soft, then add the tofu last. - - Note: Garlic and spicy pepper should be cooked last among the vegetables to avoid burning.
3. Add your seasonings, then the flour-water slurry and mix thoroughly immediately. If it seems like it's too thick, add some water to thin it out. When everything has thickened up nicely and sticks together more or less, it's done! Serve over rice.
4. THIS IS NOT A STEP; if you feel that the ingredient list is way too long then just go with a basic mabo dofu recipe using just the ground meat, your choice of veggies and the dashi, soy sauce, sesame oil and salt. That's really all you need, everything else is just my preference, such as the habanero.

Stir the sesame oil into the thickened mabo tofu. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan Province, where spicy food is king and the signature spice of the region–the Sichuan Peppercorn–gives dishes a unique "numbing" effect. It's almost like the Sichuan peppercorns are there to not only add their fragrance and flavor, but also to numb your tongue so it can take more heat! An easy mapo tofu recipe that creates the authentic taste of China. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes.

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