The smooth and tender taste of tofu and ground meat, fresh, fragrant and spicy three super rice characteristics, make mapo tofu a much-loved dish, mapo tofu is very simple, but to cook well, it is also a dish that requires cooking skills. How to make delicious mapo tofu? Mapo tofu in China is the representative dish of Sichuan cuisine.
"Hemp" comes from peppercorns, and "spicy" comes from red oil and spicy bean paste, highlighting the "spicy" characteristics of this Sichuan dish. The main ingredients are tofu, minced beef, spicy bean paste, and peppercorns, so in order to make this dish more affordable, we changed the minced beef to pork.
Mapo tofu has been circulating in the folk for a long time, and the method is slightly different, but the ingredients are actually the same. In the most important tofu choice, it is recommended to use "plate tofu", the degree of spicyness can also be based on their favorite characteristics, make some adjustments, the appearance of the color is dark red and bright, red, white and green tricolor commensurate, with soft and tender tofu, eating is particularly spicy, spicy, hot, tender, crisp, fragrant, fresh flavor, very easy to eat and easy to use.
Tofu is a nutritious and delicious food, there are many different cooking methods, but if you do not pay attention to cooking, it is easy to cook, not only is it not delicious, it is not beautiful; if you want to prevent tofu from being boiled and broken, you can first immerse the tofu in "salt water" for 20 to 30 minutes, so that it is not easy to cook and break ~ In addition, the handmade tofu bought back from the market is easy to sour, remember as long as the tofu is soaked in water, replace the clean water once a day, put it in the refrigerator, you can put it for 7 days without sourness!
Time 30 minutes
Ingredients: 300-350g of ground meat, 1 box of tofu, 2 tablespoons of watercress paste, 1-2 tablespoons of peppercorn oil/peppercorns, 1 tablespoon of chili oil, 1.6% of minced ginger, 2 minced garlic, 2 shallots
1, because I do not have pepper oil at hand, so the hot oil pot under the peppercorn grain sauté pepper oil fire can not be too big Oh or it is easy to burn black flavor out of the peppercorn grains began to change color can be fished out and thrown away, the ground meat fried to 8-9 minutes cooked to fish up for later, spicy bean paste, chili oil, pepper oil, minced garlic, ginger, onion white according to personal taste can also put a little sugar stir-fry incense.
2, add the right amount of water like sauce more people water can put more, under the tofu let the water boil slightly to let the tofu into the flavor I will use the spoon to repeat the soup on the tofu head or gently flip the tofu, tofu color into the flavor can be just fried meat carefully push carefully do not try not to turn the tofu to break the taste, if you need to add a little salt cover pot lid to cook for 10 minutes and then turn off the minimum heat to hook a little mustard slightly for the juice, the dish sprinkled with green onions is completed.
Uncle tips
1, I heard that the tofu is not easy to break after soaking in water for 10-15 minutes, you can try it.
2, pork grinding, spices must be fried until slightly golden, fragrant overflowing will be delicious.
3, pepper powder is also indispensable, when the pot puts green onions, you can add some pepper powder.