Recipe of Award-winning My Mapo Tofu

My Mapo Tofu.

Hello everybody, it's John, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, my mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

My Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It's appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. They're nice and they look fantastic. My Mapo Tofu is something which I've loved my whole life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have my mapo tofu using 18 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make My Mapo Tofu:

1. {Make ready of Ground pork.
2. {Get of Vegetable oil.
3. {Take of Ginger, minced.
4. {Take of Garlic, minced.
5. {Take of plus, Doubanjiang.
6. {Prepare of Tianmianjiang.
7. {Get of plus Japanese leek, minced.
8. {Get of ● Water.
9. {Get of ● Chicken stock granules.
10. {Prepare of ● Sake.
11. {Get of ● Sugar.
12. {Get of ● Soy sauce.
13. {Take of Silken tofu.
14. {Make ready of Pepper.
15. {Get of ★ Katakuriko.
16. {Prepare of ★ Water.
17. {Take of Sesame oil.
18. {Take of Green onions or scallions.

Instructions to make My Mapo Tofu:

1. Heat the vegetable oil in a frying pan and cook the ground pork over high heat. (cook until the juices run clear)..
2. Add the ginger, garlic, doubanjiang, tianmianjiang, and minced leek and stir-fry. (It can burn easily once the paste ingredients are added, so lower the heat to medium)..
3. Combine the ● ingredients and add to the pan. Turn the heat to high..
4. Once it boils, add the cut silken tofu and boil over high heat (don't stir it too much). Season with pepper..
5. If you drain the water from the tofu beforehand, the dish won't become watery..
6. Combine the ★ ingredients. Lower the heat to medium and gradually add in the ★ ingredients (※ the tofu will fall apart easily, so stir gently). Let it simmer on high heat for a short time..
7. Drizzle in some sesame oil on the surface of the pan to finish. Arrange in a dish and optionally garnish with green onion or the white section of a leek..
8. There's also an eggplant version: https://cookpad.com/en/recipes/143123-our-family-s-mapo-eggplant-recipe https://cookpad.com/us/recipes/143123-our-familys-mapo-eggplant-recipe.
9. You could also top it with thin slices from the white portion of Japanese leek. It still tastes delicious without it..

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