If you also like to eat Mapo tofu, today I will tell you how to make authentic Mapo tofu! This is a method taught by a chef I knew before. The following is the most detailed explanation. I hope you can learn.
Gourmet: Mapo Tofu
Production ingredients: tofu, salt, cooking oil, bean paste, pepper, lobster sauce, dried pepper, chicken essence, salt, sugar and starch water.
Methods and steps
1 First, prepare some ingredients in advance. First, prepare a piece of tofu, clean it and cut it into small pieces for later use. When buying tofu, try to choose the older one. This kind of tofu is best for frying. Tofu that is too tender is not suitable for frying, and it is easy to be fried soft and rotten.
2, tofu can be prepared about 200 grams, and then we have to prepare 50 grams of minced beef or minced pork. Then prepare some pickled ginger and pickled pepper and cut them into pieces for later use. Then boil the water in the pot, add an appropriate amount of water to the pot and heat the water in the pot with a big fire.
When the water temperature is heated until bubbles appear at the bottom, cut tofu should be added to hot water, and the hot water in the pot should be boiled completely with high fire. Then blanch for another minute, and then take the tofu out of the pot for later use, so as to remove the beany smell of the tofu.
3, hot oil from the pot, add the right amount of cooking oil to the pot, after the oil temperature is 30% hot, first add the prepared minced meat into the hot oil and fry the water in the minced meat. Then add a spoonful of bean paste to the pot, stir-fry the red oil, and then add a proper amount of pepper, lobster sauce and dried pepper to the pot, stir-fry the fragrance.
When we can smell the thick smell of fermented soybean, we should add a small bowl of water to the pot. After the fire boiled the soup in the pot, we put all the prepared pickled peppers, ginger and pickled peppers into the pot. Then add chicken essence, salt and sugar to the pot to taste and stir well.
4. Next, we will put all the cooked tofu into the pot, turn the fire into a small fire, and let the tofu burn slowly in the pot for 5 minutes to make the tofu fully tasty. Remember that the heat should not be too strong, wait for 5 minutes, and then turn the heat into a big fire.
Finally, prepare a small bowl of starch water. The prepared starch water should be slowly poured into the pot three times, and the tofu soup in the pot will thicken, so that the food can be eaten out of the pot. The Mapo tofu made in this way tastes fragrant and hemp. Have you learned how to cook super food?
Summary:
Remember to blanch Mapo tofu before making it. Tofu that can't be cooked won't taste good no matter how it is cooked. After tofu is cooked, you must remember to eat it while it is hot. When tofu is cold, its taste will change greatly. There are thousands of delicious tofu. Friends who like tofu, do you have any better food to share?