Recipe and video for making Japanese-style mapo tofu from scratch in your home kitchen, along with detailed history on this unique dish and how it traveled from.
Mapo Tofu (้บปๅฉ่ฑ่
) is traditionally a Szechuan dish characterized by the tongue-numbing ma la flavors from the red chili oil and Szechuan peppercorns.
Although Szechuan food is one of my favorite cuisines and I always jump at the opportunity to eat it, my husband is not a huge fan.
You can cook Japanese style mapo tofu by using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve Japanese style mapo tofu.
Ingredients of Japanese style mapo tofu
- Prepare of sauce.
- You need to prepare 2.5 tbsp of chili bean sauce.
- Prepare 2 tbsp of mirin.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of miso.
- Prepare 1 tbsp of oyster sauce.
- You need to prepare .5 tbsp of soy sauce.
- Prepare 1 tsp of sesame oil.
- Prepare 1 tsp of corn/potato starch.
- You need to prepare 4 tbsp of water.
- You need to prepare 2 of garlic cloves.
- You need to prepare of seasoning.
- You need to prepare 1 inch of ginger.
- You need to prepare 2 of scallions.
- Prepare 1 pack of soft tofu.
- Prepare .5 lb of ground pork.
The Japanese variant of the dish, is called 'Mabo Tofu'. (Note: Mabo with a 'b', not a 'p' as in the Chinese version) This regional recipe adjusts the dish in a way that's much less oily and spicy than it's Sichuan origins would indicate. Drain the tofu, then place the tofu on a paper towel and wrap it loosely with the paper towel. I love this recipe as I can enjoy the kick-in-the-tongue sensation and the specific flavor back in Szechuan, China. This Vegan Mapo Tofu is made with Japanese seasoning.
Japanese style mapo tofu instructions
- Mix together sauce ingredients.
- Mince garlic and ginger finely and sautรฉ 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.
Mapo tofu is a Chinese dish and also popular home cook dish in Japan and we tweak with Japanese seasoning. This particular recipe is not spicy but you can enjoy the flavor of mapo tofu. Japanese Mapo Tofu vs Chinese Mapo tofu: The Japanese mapo tofu often contains a mix of sweet and spicy hot bean sauce. Again you can add the peppercorns if you like them even in the Japanese style. I'm too lazy to toast the peppercorn on the dry pan most of the time, so I can totally live with.
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