Recipe: Appetizing Mapo Tofu at Home

Mapo Tofu at Home.

You can have Mapo Tofu at Home using 17 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mapo Tofu at Home

1. You need 200 grams of Mixed ground beef and pork (or just pork).
2. You need 1 block of Tofu.
3. It's 1/2 of of a small Onion.
4. Prepare 5 of cm White part of a leek.
5. You need 1 of piece/clove each Ginger and garlic.
6. It's 1 dash of Chinese garlic chives.
7. Prepare 1 of heaping teaspoon Doubanjiang.
8. You need 1 tsp of of each ● Chinese soup stock, miso.
9. You need 1/4 tsp of ● Salt.
10. Prepare 1 1/2 tsp of ● Sugar.
11. It's 1/2 tbsp of ● Sesame oil.
12. Prepare 1 tbsp of ● Soy sauce.
13. Prepare 1 tbsp of ● Sweet chili sauce.
14. Prepare 1 tbsp of ● Ketchup.
15. It's 100 ml of ● Water or hot water.
16. Prepare 1 tbsp of ☆ Katakuriko.
17. You need 2 tbsp of ☆ Water.

Mapo Tofu at Home instructions

1. Finely chop the leek, garlic and ginger..
2. Combine the ● ingredients..
3. Flavor the ground meat with 1 tablespoon each of soy sauce and sake (not listed)..
4. Heat vegetable oil (not listed) in a frying pan, and stir fry the ginger and garlic, being careful not to let it burn..
5. When it is fragrant, add the ground meat, and stir fry until it changes color..
6. Add the onion and leek, as well as the doubanjiang. The doubanjiang will spit a bit, so be careful..
7. Cut the tofu into bite sized pieces and put on a plate. Microwave without covering for 2 to 3 minutes at 500 W to expel excess water..
8. When the onion has softened, add the ● sauce and the tofu, and simmer for a few minutes. While it's simmering, drizzle in the katakuriko slurry. Stir in the Chinese garlic chives, turn off the heat, and it's done..
9. The photo here shows a mapo tofu rice bowl..
10. The next day, the sauce will stiffened up to a meat-miso sauce consistency, so I combined it with rice for mapo fried rice..