Homemade Ma Po Tofu is still far from the authentic Chen Ma Po Tofu's eight mottos of "numbness, spiciness, hotness, aroma, crispiness, tenderness, freshness, and liveliness", but it's enough to appetize with the numbness, spiciness, and tenderness.
So what are the steps to make a delicious home cooking Ma Po Tofu?
1. Prepare all the ingredients.
Materials: 500g of tofu, 40g of pork, moderate amount of oil, 10ml of soy sauce, 10g of tempeh sauce, 15g of bean paste, 1g of sugar, moderate amount of water starch, 2g of pepper, moderate amount of salt, green onion and ginger.
2. Chop the pork.
3. Tofu cut into pieces and soak in lightly salted water for 10 minutes, drain.
4. chopped green onion and ginger, bean paste finely chopped.
5. frying pan to the oil explosion incense onion ginger.
6. Pour in the minced meat and stir-fry to brown.
7. Then add the bean paste, and tempeh.
8. Stir fry the flavor.
9. Add tofu.
10. Add appropriate amount of water.
11. Add soy sauce.
12. Add sugar.
13. Add pepper after the tofu is cooked for 5 minutes.
14. Drizzle in water starch to thicken.
15. Spatula push the tofu soup thick turn off the fire.
From the taste, because at the beginning of the bean paste fried red oil, in addition to the aroma of red oil and soy sauce flavor, so that the Ma Po Tofu used to cover the rice that is the most suitable!
Ma po tofu is a world-famous dish that is famous both at home and abroad. It is also a very representative of the authentic traditional Sichuan cuisine. He to numb, spicy, fresh, fragrant, hot, tender as the characteristics of the popular to people's favorite. First of all, this dish to be delicious. Must master the above characteristics of hemp, spicy, fresh, fragrant, hot, tender features.
Fresh, to be divided into two parts, 1, is the raw ingredients of fresh, tofu, meat not, garlic. 2, is the seasoning of fresh Pixian Douban, Hanyuan pepper, chili pepper, Yongchuan tempeh, soy sauce, salt, monosodium glutamate (MSG), white sugar.
Aroma, aroma is mainly the main auxiliary materials and seasonings after cooking the integrated taste called aroma, this dish must be good ingredients, seasonings and cooking in the right proportion, can reflect the best.
Tender, the most important taste of this dish is tender. The main thing is in the material and fire. Don't buy too old tofu, and don't burn the fire hose for a long time.
Hot, tofu to hot this is no matter what tofu dishes must be hot, because tofu is not cooked through boiling hot not flavorful, tofu is not good.
People such as mastering these characteristics. Make out of Ma Po tofu and fragrant, and hemp, and spicy and tender certainly delicious.