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The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. The Japanese version of this famous Sichuan spicy dish (Mapo Tofu/Mapo Doufu) is made with readily available ingredients and it is a lot less oily but is still an incredible flavour explosion in a bowl - I want. 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!
Spicy Mabo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It is appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Spicy Mabo Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have spicy mabo tofu using 10 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Spicy Mabo Tofu:
- Prepare 1 block tofu
- Prepare 100 g minced pork
- Get 1 cup garlic chives/chinese chives
- Make ready 1 piece *grated ginger
- Get 1 Tbsp *sugar
- Make ready 3 Tbsp *soy sauce
- Take 1 piece *grated garlic
- Prepare 1 Tbsp *sake
- Take 2 Tbsp *Gouchujang hot pepper paste
- Take 1 Tbsp sesame oil
Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. It consists of tofu set in a spicy sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. Making the yummiest mapo tofu at home for several Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only.
Steps to make Spicy Mabo Tofu:
- Cut tofu into 2 cm cubes and wrap them in kitchen paper. Leave for a while to allow the paper to absorb the water from the tofu. Or you can dry the tofu by putting it into a microwave for about 3 min.
- Cut the garlic chives to 3 cm pieces.
- Put the grated ginger, sugar, soy sauce, grated garlic, sake and gouchujang paste into a small bowl and mix together well.
- Heat sesame oil in a pan, then add the minced pork when oil is hot. When the pork has browned, put in the sauce. When it comes to a boil, put in the garlic chives and tofu and mix lightly together by shaking a pan.
My Mabo Tofu is seasoned with miso, and it gives nice rich flavor to the dish. For the spicy heat and extra umami, tobanjan (Chinese chili bean paste) is usually an essential ingredient for this dish. Something a little spicier… Sichuan cuisine is known for being spicy, and isn't known for being The Japanese variant of the dish, is called 'Mabo Tofu'. (Note: Mabo with a 'b', not a 'p' as in the Chinese. Sweeter and less spicy than the Sichuan original Mabo Tofu. Depending on who you ask, you'll probably get a different story about the origins of Mapo Tofu, but the commonly accepted myth is that.
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