How to Prepare Mabo Dofu in 27 Minutes for Mom

Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mabo dofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. This mapo tofu recipe is the true blue, authentic real deal—the spicy, tongue-numbing, rice-is-absolutely-not-optional mapo tofu that you get in the restaurants! Mapo tofu (Chinese: 麻婆豆腐; pinyin: mápó dòufu) is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province.

Mabo Dofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Mabo Dofu is something which I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have mabo dofu using 18 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

Ingredients

The ingredients needed to make Mabo Dofu:

1. Get Flour-Water Slurry
2. Take 1/4 c flour
3. Get 1/3 to 1/2 c of water
4. Take Seasoning
5. Take to taste (sea) salt
6. Make ready 1 tsp garlic powder
7. Take 1/4 c dashi (dried Japanese fish stock) or 1-2 tbsp of miso or 1-2 chicken bouillion [this is really to taste, since it's used to add the most savory flavour]
8. Get 1 pinch turmeric powder (for color) OPTIONAL
9. Take 1 pinch paprika (for color) OPTIONAL
10. Make ready 2 tbsp ground chili or 1 tbsp of fresh spicy pepper (I use habanero) OPTIONAL
11. Prepare 2 tbsp soy sauce
12. Take 1 tbsp sesame oil
13. Take Filling
14. Take 4 baby bok choy, sliced or diced
15. Take 1 1/2 stalks celery, sliced or diced
16. Take 1-2 cloves garlic, minced
17. Prepare 1 1/2 box soft tofu, cut into small cubes
18. Take 1/2 lb ground beef or other (about beef/pork/turkey: be sure to "cut" into small pieces when cooking so you don't end up with meat clumped together)

Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐, ma po dou fu) is one of the most popular classic Sichuan dishes. It has a spicy, pungent, and appetizing flavor that goes perfectly with steamed rice. 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. Personally I like to cook this. • Mabo Tofu (or Mapo Tofu) is one of the very popular Chinese dishes in Japan.

Instructions

Steps to make Mabo Dofu:

1. In a small bowl mix the water and flour, gradually adding the flour. Be sure that it's not too thin or too thick. Set aside mixture for later. - - Note: It should feel like you've added a bit of water to some honey, still somewhat thick but moves a lot smoother.
2. In a pan, add some oil and saute the meat until brown. Season lightly with salt. Add the veggies and cook till soft, then add the tofu last. - - Note: Garlic and spicy pepper should be cooked last among the vegetables to avoid burning.
3. Add your seasonings, then the flour-water slurry and mix thoroughly immediately. If it seems like it's too thick, add some water to thin it out. When everything has thickened up nicely and sticks together more or less, it's done! Serve over rice.
4. THIS IS NOT A STEP; if you feel that the ingredient list is way too long then just go with a basic mabo dofu recipe using just the ground meat, your choice of veggies and the dashi, soy sauce, sesame oil and salt. That's really all you need, everything else is just my preference, such as the habanero.

Tofu in a garlicky, spicy meat sauce is vey tasty, and it goes very well with Steamed Rice. Mapo Doufu, or Mabo Tofu (マーボー豆腐) is a popular Chinese dish in Japan. Sweeter and less spicy than the Sichuan original Mabo Tofu. Mapo Tofu can be found in nearly any Chinese restaurant around the world with hundreds of variations adapting the piquant original to suit local tastes. This dish can also be called the Mapo Doufu.

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