Easiest Way to Prepare Any-night-of-the-week Mapo Tofu

Mapo Tofu.

Hello everybody, hope you're having an amazing day today. Today, we're going to make a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is simple, it's quick, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. {Make ready of soft to medium-firm tofu.
2. {Get of dried black mushrooms.
3. {Get of fermented black beans.
4. {Make ready of garlic, chopped.
5. {Prepare of ginger, chopped.
6. {Prepare of dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped.
7. {Take of scallions, sliced diagonally.
8. {Get of Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed.
9. {Take of chili bean paste.
10. {Make ready of Chinese cooking wine.
11. {Take of light soy sauce.
12. {Take of sesame oil.
13. {Take of sugar.
14. {Prepare of corn starch.

Steps to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Soak the black mushrooms in 0.4 l water for 20 minutes, wring out the excess water back in the bowl and chop the mushrooms. Reserve the mushroom flavoured water for the sauce..
2. Chop the ginger and garlic, and crush the black beans slightly..
3. Stir fry the mushrooms and black beans on high heat in some peanut oil until slightly crispy and fragrant..
4. Lower the heat, add the chopped ginger, garlic, Sichuan pepper, scallion whites and chili, and stir fry until fragrant and the garlic starts to brown..
5. Mix the mushroom water with the chili bean paste, wine, soy sauce, sesame oil and sugar and add the sauce to the wok and let simmer for a few minutes..
6. Cut the tofu in inch sized cubes and add them to the sauce, stirring carefully to avoid breaking them. Let simmer on low heat until the tofu is heated through..
7. Mix the corn starch with some cold water and add to the wok, and continue to simmer until the sauce is thick enough to coat the back of a spoon..
8. Adjust hotness with chili oil, "mala" (the numbing quality of the Sichuan pepper) with more Sichuan pepper, saltiness with salt and sweetness with sugar. Garnish with the scallion greens..
9. Serves 3-4 on its own or 6-8 as a part of a spread..

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