Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, japanese style mapo tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. 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. Japanese Mapo Tofu vs Chinese Mapo tofu: The Japanese mapo tofu often contains a mix of sweet and spicy hot bean sauce.
Japanese style mapo tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Japanese style mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have japanese style mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Japanese style mapo tofu:
- Take sauce
- Take 2.5 tbsp chili bean sauce
- Get 2 tbsp mirin
- Make ready 1 tbsp miso
- Make ready 1 tbsp oyster sauce
- Make ready .5 tbsp soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tsp sesame oil
- Make ready 1 tsp corn/potato starch
- Make ready 4 tbsp water
- Take 2 garlic cloves
- Make ready seasoning
- Get 1 inch ginger
- Take 2 scallions
- Prepare 1 pack soft tofu
- Prepare .5 lb ground pork
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). The ingredients are unmistakably Japanese, and yet the flavor is very reminiscent of the original dish-minus the tongue-numbing Szechuan peppercorns, of course. What is Japanese Style Mapo Tofu? Mapo tofu is a popular Chinese dish that originated from Sichuan.
Steps 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
It's a saucy dish made of key ingredients such as minced pork, soft tofu and spicy chili bean sauce (doubanjiang). Wrap the tofu in a kitchen paper and let it stand to drain. 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.
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