Life is simple to be happy, people's hearts are simple to be happy, hello everyone, here is simple food.
When it comes to tofu, mapo tofu should be the first to bear the brunt. Mapo tofu belongs to Sichuan cuisine, is one of the traditional famous dishes in Sichuan Province, its characteristics are hemp, spicy, hot, fragrant, crisp, tender, fresh, live eight characters, also known as the eight characters of the proverbs.
Mapo tofu, the legend should have originated in the Qing Dynasty, but now, it has crossed the ocean, settled in many foreign countries, such as the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Singapore, Japan, etc., therefore, Mapo tofu also jumped from a home-cooked dish to the Hall of Elegance, not only one of the top ten classic dishes in Sichuan, it has also become an international famous dish.
There are many legends about mapo tofu, and one of them makes me feel very warm.
It is said that at the end of the Qing Dynasty, there was a small restaurant next to the Wanfuqiao pier in Chengdu, and the lady of the restaurant had a lot of hemp on her face, and everyone called her Chen Mabo.
Because the restaurant was opened on the dock, Chen Ma po received workers and porters at the dock, and the people who sold labor ate more, and after receiving several batches of workers one day, there were not many ingredients stored in the store. But just as it was about to close, a group of workers came in, hungry and tired, and the key was to be poor! They hope that the boss will make some dishes that are cheap and cooked, preferably hot, and eat warm on the body to relieve fatigue.
This Chen Ma Po is a bit embarrassed, there are no dishes in the store, only a few plates of tofu, a little beef minced, it is very late, outside can not buy vegetables, how to do it?
Looking at the tired, hungry, and gray-headed workers, Chen Ma po thought to herself, how can we let them eat enough. At this time, she was in a hurry, so she used the existing ingredients to make a pot of spicy, spicy and hot color and delicious tender tofu.
Good fellow, just such a pot of tofu, eat those workers sweat, each of them ate several bowls of rice, and forgot the bitterness and tiredness of working during the day.
Later, this pot of tofu made by Ma Po spread among the workers who sold coolies, and it spread to ten or ten hundred, and everyone knew that the tofu made by Chen Ma Po was delicious and the rice was cheap. Before long, this dish became the signature dish of the small restaurant, and was named Mapo Tofu by everyone.
The story is here, the following will share with you my mapo tofu.
Ingredients: Tofu, pork, Pixian bean paste, green onion, ginger, garlic, star anise, peppercorns, light soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil, chicken essence, starch
Procedure steps:
1: Cut a piece of tofu into small pieces and put it on a plate; then chop a piece of fat and lean pork into minced meat; cut into green onions, ginger and garlic. Then chop up the appropriate amount of Pixian watercress sauce
2: Boil water in a pot, add a small amount of salt after the water boils, then put the pieces of tofu we cut into it and blanch the water, about a minute or so, and fish out the soft and tender tofu for later.
Put the oil in the pan, add an star anise and the right amount of peppercorns and stir-fry until fragrant, then fish out the star anise and peppercorns, put the green onion, ginger and garlic in the oil and stir-fry until fragrant.
After stir-frying the aroma, add the chopped minced meat, fry it loosely, fry until it changes color, and then add the minced Pixian bean paste and fry the red oil.
3, after frying, add half a bowl of water to boil, add the freshly blanched tofu to continue boiling, and then add seasoning: soy sauce, pepper, a small amount of sugar, and then drizzle a little sesame oil, add chicken essence, and finally pour in water starch, stir-fry evenly, plate, sprinkle with green onions, especially delicious mapo tofu is ready.
【Tips】
1, tofu boiling time is not too long, the time is long, tofu is old, the taste is not good.
2, fried out of the fragrant star anise and peppercorns are best fished out of the oil, so convenient to eat, of course, if you don't mind eating peppercorns, you can also not fish out.
3, the minced meat cut by yourself is not easy to slip and scatter, so the process of frying minced meat should be a little patient.
4, tofu is relatively tender, the operation should be gentle, not too rough, so as not to crush the tofu.
Well, today's sharing is here, making food, tasting life, here is a simple food.