Hey everyone, it’s me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, japanese style mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I will make it a 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. JOC's all-time favorite dish, and it frequently makes it into my dinner menu rotation. Today's recipe is a Japanese take on a very authentic and famous Chinese Szechuan dish-mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐), or as it's known in Japan: Mabo Tofu (マーボー豆腐).
Japanese style mapo tofu is one of the most popular of recent trending meals in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Japanese style mapo tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook japanese style mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese style mapo tofu:
- Get sauce
- Make ready 2.5 tbsp chili bean sauce
- Make ready 2 tbsp mirin
- Take 1 tbsp miso
- Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready .5 tbsp soy sauce
- Get 1 tsp sesame oil
- Get 1 tsp corn/potato starch
- Prepare 4 tbsp water
- Get 2 garlic cloves
- Prepare seasoning
- Take 1 inch ginger
- Prepare 2 scallions
- Get 1 pack soft tofu
- Get .5 lb ground pork
Wrap the tofu in a kitchen paper and let it stand to drain. What is Japanese Style Mapo Tofu? Mapo tofu is a popular Chinese dish that originated from Sichuan. It's a saucy dish made of key ingredients such as minced pork, soft tofu and spicy chili bean sauce (doubanjiang).
Instructions to make Japanese style mapo tofu:
- Mix together sauce ingredients
- Mince garlic and ginger finely and sauté on medium until fragrant
- Add meat
- When meat is brown add sauce mixture and stir
- Add tofu and stir until coated with sauce
- Sprinkle chopped up scallions before turning off heat
- Serve over rice
Like other Sichuan dishes, it's usually too spicy for me. And that's how I make Japanese-style Mabo tofu! I first learned the dish from a relative that lives in Japan, but every family has their own recipe variations. Feel free to adjust the recipe to suit your own family's tastes. Tofu and ground meat are stir fried with a flavoursome sauce.
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