Ma Po Tofu

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To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook Ma Po Tofu using 17 ingredients and 18 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

Ingredients and spices that need to be Take to make Ma Po Tofu:

1. Rice
2. 600 g tofu
3. 100 g minced beef or pork
4. 1 tsp Sichuan peppercorns
5. Vegetable oil
6. 4 garlic cloves
7. 1.5 tsp fresh ginger
8. 3 spring onions
9. 2 tbsp fermented black beans
10. 2.5 tbsp dou ban jiang (broad bean paste in chili oil)
11. 240 ml chicken or vegetable stock
12. 2 tsp chili oil
13. 1 tsp light soy sauce
14. 1 tsp dark soy sauce
15. 2 tsp brown sugar
16. 1 tsp cornflour
17. 1 tsp sesame oil

Instructions to make to make Ma Po Tofu

1. Cook rice in salted water. Remove and set aside
2. Roast 1tsp Sichuan peppercorns for 1-2mins on low heat in a dry wok. Add 60ml vegetable oil then continue to cook on a low heat for a further 2mins. Drain the oil into a small glass and set aside
3. Finely chop the garlic cloves and ginger
4. Chop the spring onions
5. Finely chop 2tbsp fermented black beans
6. Chop through 2.5tbsp dou ban jiang broad bean paste to ensure all broad beans are in a paste and to release flavour
7. Cut tofu into reasonably large chunks using a sharp knife
8. Cook the tofu in boiling salted water for 1-2mins until some of the tofu floats to the surface then remove and set aside
9. Finely chop the minced beef/pork
10. Heat 2tbsp vegetable oil in wok then add the meat. Fry until cooked then push to one side of the wok. To the empty side, add the spring onion whites, garlic and ginger. Reduce the heat and sautée for 15secs then mix in with the meat
11. Add fermented black beans and mix. Move everything to one side of the wok again and then add the dou ban jiang paste to the empty side. Sautée the paste for 15secs then mix everything together
12. Add 240ml vegetable or chicken stock and stir
13. Add 2tsp chili oil and 2tsp of the Sichuan peppercorn oil made earlier. Stir
14. Gently lower the tofu into the sauce and use a large spoon to cover the tofu with the sauce. Leave for 3mins to enable the tofu to absorb the flavours. Use chopsticks from here onwards to mix the wok ingredients so as not to break apart the tofu pieces
15. Add 1tsp light soy sauce, 1tsp dark soy sauce and 2tsp brown sugar. Mix together until the sugar has melted
16. Mix 1tsp cornflour and 1tsp water, pour into the wok and mix immediately
17. Add 1tsp sesame oil and mix
18. Serve alongside rice and top with spring onion greens

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