Sichuan cuisine, the formal name is called "Chengdu Ma Po Tofu", or "Chen Ma Po Tofu", according to legend, is a small hotel in the northern suburbs of Chengdu City in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Wanfu Bridge, the owner of a small restaurant Chen Senfu (said to be named Chen Fu Chun), the wife of Liu's creation. Liu's face had pockmarks and she was known as Chen Ma-po. The roasted tofu she created was known as "Chen Ma Po Tofu", which was created in the first year of the Tongzhi reign in the Qing Dynasty (1862), and was originally known as "Chen Xing Sheng Restaurant". This dish is characterized by "burning" method of cooking, in the snow-white tender tofu, dotted with brownish-red minced beef and green green garlic, surrounded by a circle of translucent red oil, such as jade inlaid with amber, with numbness, spiciness, scalding, tenderness, crispy, fragrant, fresh and unique flavor.

Tofu is a green and healthy food, as of now the history is very long, in many parts of our country are more popular, tofu can play an anti-thrombotic effect, this is because there are a lot of saponins in soybeans, these saponins can help the human body to remove the free radicals, cancer cells can also play an inhibitory role in tofu, there are many ways to do it, such as Ma Po tofu, etc., then the simple practice of home made Ma Po tofu has a lot to do. The first thing you need to do is to make sure that you have a good understanding of what you are doing and how you are doing it.

First of all, what is the best way to do this? The first thing to do is to prepare the food and seasonings for making the tofu. Prepare five hundred grams of tough tofu, one hundred grams of beef, a small onion, three small cloves of garlic, ten peppercorns, thirty grams of bean paste, three grams of chicken powder, fifteen grams of soy sauce, five grams of peppercorn oil, twenty grams of cornstarch, and the right amount of oil and salt, take out the prepared onion and garlic. Peel off the skin and wash it well, then cut the green onion into chopped scallions and the garlic into minced garlic. Then take out the tofu, cut the tofu into evenly sized squares, cut, and then set aside. Take out the beef, wash it with water and cut it into minced meat. Then find a pot, wash the pot with water, and then prepare some water, pour into the pot, and then boil the water, after the water boils, we put the tofu in, cook for a minute or two, and then quickly fish out, standby.

Second, take out the pot of boiled tofu, pour off the water to wash it, and then turn on the fire, the pot of water to boil dry, start pouring in the right amount of oil, oil is hot, the preparation of chopped minced meat and soy sauce, one by one, poured into the pot, stirring back and forth over high heat. Stir frying pan of minced meat, stir fry to seven or eight mature, begin to turn off the fire, the fried minced meat to serve out. Then pour a little oil into the pan, turn on the fire again to heat the oil, when the oil is hot, put the minced garlic and bean paste into it, stir fry with a spoon for a while, and then put the prepared peppercorns into it, stir fry the flavor. Stir fry the flavor, put in the peppercorns, pick out and throw away, and then prepare the right amount of water, pour into the pot to go, and then put the prepared chicken powder, soy sauce, salt put in, turn the fire on and stir fry evenly, the material fried to taste, and then take out the bean curd, put it into the pot.

Finally take out five grams of pepper oil, also poured into the pot, with a spoon and fry for a while, pour in the seasoning and tofu, stir fry evenly, stir fry to taste, be sure to let the tofu to the seasoning juice absorbed, so that out of the tofu, it will be more flavorful to eat is also more flavorful. Tofu stir-fried to absorb the flavor, we can turn off the fire, and then stirred with a spoon, smell a burst of flavor, and then you can do a good job of tofu, sheng out of the pot. We can also prepare a little green onion, sprinkled on top of the tofu, adding a green color, looking at the special want to eat a bite, especially appetizing, the taste is also very tasty Oh.