Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version)
Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version)

Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, spicy mapo tofu (healthier version). It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

This Craft Essence features Mapo Tofu of Fuyuki's Hongzhou Feast Hall: Taishan, the favorite dish of Kotomine Kirei from Fate/Stay Night. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. Mapo tofu (pronounced mapo doufu in Mandarin, 麻婆豆腐) originates from China's Sichuan Province.

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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook spicy mapo tofu (healthier version) using 23 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version):
  1. Make ready 1 piece soft silken organic tofu (package)
  2. Get 3 piece green onion
  3. Get 1 head garlic
  4. Prepare 1 piece ginger freshly peeled (size of thumb )
  5. Get 1 lb ground pork
  6. Take 2 star anise
  7. Make ready 1 salt
  8. Prepare 1 black pepper or white pepper
  9. Prepare 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  10. Make ready 1 tbsp hoisin sauce
  11. Take 1 tbsp garlic chili sauce
  12. Take 1 tbsp sirracha
  13. Get 1/2 cup shaoxing rice wine
  14. Make ready 1/2 can chicken stock
  15. Take 2 tbsp avocado oil
  16. Get 1 tsp cayenne pepper powder
  17. Make ready 1 tsp chili powder
  18. Prepare 1 tbsp crushed red pepper
  19. Prepare 1 tbsp dark soy sauce
  20. Take 1 bunch cilantro chopped discard stem
  21. Make ready 1 tbsp cornstarch mixed in 2 tablespoons cold water
  22. Prepare 10 piece dry red chilis
  23. Take 3 cup white rice

In the authentic version of Mapo tofu, beef or pork mince are used to enhance the flavour. 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) While the original Shichuan Mapo Tofu is pretty spicy, the Japanese version is usually mild so even children can enjoy it. Mapo tofu is one of the signature dish from Sichuan, China.

Instructions to make Spicy Mapo Tofu (Healthier Version):
  1. Finely chop green onion, peeled garlic and peeled ginger. Set aside.
  2. Combine ground pork, salt and pepper to taste,cayenne, chili powder and pour in Shao xing rice wine, dark soy sauce and set aside to marinate for 10 min
  3. In a hot wok, pour in avocado oil. Sautee green onion, garlic and ginger until aromatic. Be careful not to brown the garlic
  4. Add in ground pork mixture and brown.
  5. When pork is cooked, add in star anise, crushed red pepper, dry red chilis, oyster sauce, hoisin, chili garlic sauce, sirracha, and chicken broth. Let everything combine and bring to a boil.
  6. Cut tofu into 1/2 inch cubes and add to pork mixture. Let boil for 5 min. Taste it to see if more salt needed
  7. Add cornstarch slurry to mixture. Let boil for 1 min. Remove from heat, pour into casserole dish and top with freshly chopped cilantro
  8. Make steamed rice on the side. And serve together

Silky soft tofu swimming in delicous spicy sauce. Mapo tofu is also a dish that very easy to turning into plant based/vegetarian dish. All you have to do is us different protein, vegetarian oyster sauce and veggie. One bite and you'll be hooked on this spicy Schezwan MaPo Tofu! A vegetarian version of a traditional Sichuan recipe that you can The first time my husband and I tried MaPo Tofu at a local Sichuan (you might also see it spelled Schezwan) restaurant, we were hooked!

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