Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 9 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Mapo Tofu:

1. Take 500 g soft to medium-firm tofu
2. Prepare 12 dried black mushrooms
3. Get 80 g fermented black beans
4. Make ready 4 cloves garlic, chopped
5. Prepare 8 cm ginger, chopped
6. Get 4 dried Sichuan type peppers, chopped
7. Get 4 scallions, sliced diagonally
8. Prepare 4 g Sichuan pepper, lightly crushed
9. Take 80 g chili bean paste
10. Get 20 g Chinese cooking wine
11. Make ready 20 g light soy sauce
12. Make ready 20 g sesame oil
13. Take 20 g sugar
14. Prepare 8 g corn starch

Instructions 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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