Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, white mabo dofu japanese style. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
White Mabo Dofu Japanese Style is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. White Mabo Dofu Japanese Style is something which I have loved my whole life.
Mabo Tofu (or Mapo Tofu) is one of the very popular Chinese dishes in Japan. Tofu in a garlicky, spicy meat sauce is vey tasty, and it goes very well with Steamed Rice. That may be the reason why Japanese people love the dish so much.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have white mabo dofu japanese style using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make White Mabo Dofu Japanese Style:
- Prepare 500 g Tofu *medium soft type such as ‘Momen Tofu’
- Get 250-300 g Pork Mince
- Get 1 clove Garlic *finely chopped
- Make ready 1 small piece Ginger *finely chopped or grated
- Take 4 thick Spring Onions *finely chopped
- Prepare 1 tablespoon Oil
- Make ready <Sauce>
- Take 1 cup Chicken Stock *OR 1 cup Water & 1 teaspoon Asian Chicken Bouillon Powder
- Make ready 1 tablespoon White Miso
- Take 2 tablespoons Sake
- Take 1 teaspoon Sugar
- Get 1/4-1/2 teaspoon Salt *alter the amount depending on the saltiness of the Miso and Chicken Stock
- Take 1 teaspoon Sesame Oil
- Get 1 tablespoon Potato Starch
Also, Japanese-style mapo tofu uses sake as a secret ingredient to add flavor to the mapo tofu. As far as healthy Japanese recipes go, mapo tofu is a great dish for vegetarians (just leave out the pork mince) and meat eaters alike. Japanese people love to make their own mapo tofu at home, which has helped it become a staple of Japanese food. If you've reached this point your sauce should be prepared and at the ready.
Steps to make White Mabo Dofu Japanese Style:
- Prepare vegetables. Basically you need to finely chop up everything. Cut Tofu into bite-size cubes.
- Place all the sauce ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix well. This has to be done before you start cooking. Cooking process doesn’t take long at all.
- Heat Oil in a large frying pan or a wok, cook Pork Mince and vegetables, breaking up the mince.
- Before you add the sauce mixture into the pan, mix it well again. Then pour it in and bring to the boil and let the sauce thicken.
- Add Tofu and gently mix and combine.
It's now time for the main event! You could forgo the rice if you're staying low-carb and eat this with a variety of vegetable-based side dishes (banchan). 'Mabo Dofu Don' is a dish of freshly cooked rice covered with Japanese Style Mabo Dofu. It's one of my son's favourites. I have tried some different types of Tofu for this dish, but our favourite remains Momen Tofu, which is medium to soft type, but naturally you can use your favourite type. 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).
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