Recipe: Appetizing Mapo Tofu

Mapo Tofu.

You can cook Mapo Tofu using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Mapo Tofu

1. Prepare of tofu (firm tofu, don't choose soft one).
2. You need of minced beef.
3. Prepare of Szechuan bean paste.
4. Prepare of sliced ginger.
5. You need of some scallions.
6. It's of Szechuan peppercorn.
7. Prepare of chopped dried chili.
8. It's of chili sauce.
9. It's of starch.
10. You need of some black pepper.
11. Prepare of salt.
12. You need of light soy sauce.
13. You need of 1 spoon sesame oil.

Mapo Tofu step by step

1. Cut tofu into around 1 cm³ cube, pour them into boiled water, add 1 spoon salt, cook for 3min in order to remove the beany flavor, then set aside.
2. Chop ginger into small cubes, Crush the peppercorn, divide it into 2 parts.
3. Add the minced beef, 1 part of peppercorn, dried chilies, chili sauce, scallions, and bean paste soy sauce into the wok and stir fry until the chili juice come out, then add water, and when the water boils, add tofu to stew, the water can not over the tofu, stew for 5-8min, don't stir too much, otherwise, tofu will collapse.
4. Before finsih, add starch (mix with water) for thickening, cook for 3min. add another part of peppercorn and scallion, finally pour some heated seasame oil on the top of tofu.