Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, non-spicy mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo tofu (also called mabo tofu) is a popular Chinese dish that originates from the Szechuan province. These days, it can be found in a variety of Asian countries, including Japan. While growing up, it was one of my household's staple recipes.
Non-spicy Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Non-spicy Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook non-spicy mapo tofu using 14 ingredients and 16 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Non-spicy Mapo Tofu:
- Take No chilly homemade Hong You or any Cooking oil
- Get 1 big block of Tofu (I prefer Hard Tofu)
- Get 300 gr beef mince
- Prepare 1 whole capsicum or a mix of different colour capsicums
- Make ready 1 stalk Celery
- Take 8 dried shiitake mushrooms
- Get 10 white button mushrooms
- Make ready Spring onions
- Make ready Black pepper
- Make ready Soy sauce
- Prepare Oyster sauce
- Make ready Sesame oil
- Take 1/2 cup corn starch
- Get Bean sprouts (Optional)
Today I'm going to show you how to make the best mapo tofu recipe that is flavorful and spicy! And if you can't handle the heat, I'll show you how to make. The Japanese version of this famous Sichuan spicy dish (Mapo Tofu/Mapo Doufu) is made with readily available ingredients and it is a lot less oily but is still an incredible flavour explosion in a bowl - I want the sauce on tap! If your tofu dries out at all, you can stir-fry it for a minute or two with extra sauce, to add.
Instructions to make Non-spicy Mapo Tofu:
- Hong you (red oil) is totally my favourite thing. It smells amazing and goes well with BBQ, too. You can find Hong You recipe on the internet. If you don't want spiciness, just don't put chillies in your oil. If you don't have hong you, it's okay, any cooking oil would do but hong you makes your mapo tofu smell amazing.
- Gently clean the dried shiitake mushrooms then dip them in a bowl of hot water until soft. Keep this water.
- Capsicum, celery, mushrooms all chopped. Tofu chopped into 1cm³ blocks.
- Heat oil in a hot wok at high heat.
- If you only don't really like eating celery and capsicum and just want them for the smell, throw them in now.
- Add beef mince and stir until cooked.
- Throw in the mushrooms.
- Add a tablespoon of oyster sauce and soy sauce to taste. Stir well.
- Add 2, 3 more tablespoon off soy sauce so it is slightly saltier than you would like but not too salty.
- Once the shiitake mushrooms are soft enough to bite, add tofu, a bit of shiitake water and shimmer for a few minutes. If you like to eat celery and capsicum a bit raw, add them at this step.
- Use 1/2 cup of shiitake water to dissolve the corn starch.
- Slowly add the corn starch mixture into your wok and stir well until everything gets sticky.
- Turn off the stove.
- Add black pepper to your liking. Sprinkle a few drop of sesame oil. Stir well.
- Serve with rice.
- For people who like a bit of spiciness but not too much, you can add some chilly flakes at the last step.
Tender tofu cooked in an aromatic and spicy sauce, accompanied by minced meat, Mapo tofu is one of the most popular ways to prepare tofu in China. Once I asked a group of non-Chinese friends who had experiences of real Chinese food: "What is your favourite tofu dish?" They all answered: "Mapo. Authentic Szechuan style mapo tofu is one of the branding dishes of Szechuan cuisine. It is spicy, numbing, hot, aromatic and tender. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries.
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