Ma Po Tofu
Ma Po Tofu

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, ma po tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries. Personally I like to cook this dish at home from time. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. "Ma" stands for mázi, 麻子, which means pockmarks. "Po" is the first syllable of pópo, 婆婆, which means an old woman or grandma. This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants!

Ma Po Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Ma Po Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have ma po tofu using 19 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Ma Po Tofu:
  1. Make ready 200 grams Minced Pork
  2. Make ready 2 pack Silken Tofu
  3. Make ready 10 grams Ginger
  4. Take 1 piece Garlic
  5. Make ready 1/2 pieces Leek (Naganegi)
  6. Prepare As needed Spring Onion
  7. Take 2 tbsp Salad Oil (cooking Oil)
  8. Take <Ma Po Sauce>
  9. Take 2 tsp Chili Bean Sauce (If your kids do not like spicy one, use 1tsp Chili Bean Sauce)
  10. Take 2 tsp Hoisin Sauce
  11. Prepare 2 tsp Soy Sauce
  12. Get 1 tsp Oyster Sauce
  13. Take 1 tsp Sugar
  14. Take 1 tbsp Sake (Rice cooking wine)
  15. Prepare 2 tsp Chinese Soup Stock
  16. Make ready 100 ml Water
  17. Make ready <dissolved potato starch>
  18. Take 2 tsp Potato Starch
  19. Take 2 tsp Water

Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. The classic recipe consists of silken tofu, ground pork or beef, fermented broad beans & soybeans (doubanjiang), fermented black beans. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu.

Instructions to make Ma Po Tofu:
  1. Combine the Ma Po Sauce ingredients in a bowl. Mix Potato starch and water to make dissolved potato starch in another bowl.
  2. Mince Leek, ginger and garlic.
  3. Cut the Tofu into 2cm square. Boil it for 2 minutes with hot water and drain with hot water.
  4. Heat Salad Oil in a frying pan and add garlic, ginger and cook until tender over low heat. Add Leek and Minced Pork and fry until browned, add Ma Po Sauce into the pan.
  5. Put Tofu in the pan and mix gently so as not to destroy Tofu.
  6. Add dissolved potato starch. After that,put it in a plate.
  7. Hoisin Sauce SG$3.70/240g at FairPrice
  8. Chili Bean Sause SG$3.70/226g at FairPrice

Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu. Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is a fiery Sichuan pork and tofu stir-fry with the hallmark málà balance of tongue tingling and spicy. Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) is named after its inventor Mapo (means pockmarked elderly lady) who ran a small Over recent years, Mapo tofu started appearing on the menus of oversea Chinese restaurants. I love this recipe as I can enjoy the kick-in-the-tongue sensation and the.

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