If you have homemade toasted chili oil you can skip this step.
Marble tofu ingredients.
Mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 ma po dou fu is one of the most popular classic sichuan dishes.
I love this recipe.
Sometimes i double the meat and sauce so it.
This was easy to make you know exactly what goes in it.
2cm piece ginger peeled and finely chopped.
I used to make mabo tofu from a mix but lately i m trying to make things from scratch to avoid the chemicals that come in processed foods.
Add cup of the oil and throw in the fresh and dried peppers.
Also used red chili sauce instead of the hot.
When i was working on my vegan lemon pound cake recipe i found that after a lot of testing silken tofu was the best egg replacer for pound cake so i used it again here.
I put in eggplant green peppers that really added to the dish.
3 garlic cloves chopped.
I love cooking mapo tofu for a quick lunch or dinner.
For marinating soft tofu is more fitful than firm tofu and for stir frying and deep frying firm tofu is better than soft tofu.
It has a spicy pungent and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice.
Sichuan chilli bean paste.
Heat your wok or a small saucepan over low heat.
An easy mapo tofu recipe that creates the authentic taste of china.
Stir occasionally and heat until fragrant.
Cornflour mixed with 1 tbsp water.
I used leftover ham instead of ground pork it turned out great.
I don t use it in many cake recipes but for dense moist cakes like pound cake it is absolutely the best for replicating the right texture dense moist soft and tender.
There are many types of tofu product on market from soft tofu to firm tofu from tofu skin to dried tofu etc.
Light chicken stock or water.
Mapo tofu recipe instructions scroll down to the recipe card for the full list of ingredients first we toast the chilies.
6 spring onions sliced on the diagonal.