Chinese
Mapo Tofu
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Gently simmer the cubed tofu in salted water for 2 minutes, then drain; this keeps it from breaking.
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Heat the neutral oil in a wok and brown the ground pork, about 4 minutes.
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Add the doubanjiang, garlic, and ginger and cook until fragrant and red, 1 minute.
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Pour in the broth and soy sauce, add the tofu, and simmer gently 5 minutes.
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Stir the cornstarch with 2 tbsp water and add it to thicken the sauce.
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Finish with chili oil, Sichuan peppercorn, and scallions, and serve over rice.
Watch how to cook Mapo Tofu
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Mapo Tofu, read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Mapo Tofu carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 430 kcal
- Protein
- 20 g
- Carbs
- 28 g
- Fat
- 26 g
- Fiber
- 1 g
- Sugar
- 1 g
- Sodium
- 530 mg
- Saturated fat
- 5 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Mapo Tofu takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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