Simple Tofu and meat with spicy sauce !
Tofu and meat with spicy sauce MAPO TOFU
Cooking time Approximately 50minutes LEVEL☆☆☆★★
Ingredient６people
２ pieces of tofu(1 Hard tofu,1Fine-grained Tofu)
A whole garlic
8 dried red pepper
1/2 piece of ginger
300g minced pork
1 large spoon of dry chicken soup stock
1 large spoon of brown sugar
3 large spoon of Tenmenshou（Sweet paste）
3 tea spoon of Soybean candy bar shou (Hot paste)
1 large spoon of salt
1 large spoon of pepper
About 2 shakes of AJI-NO-MOTO flavoring material
1 large spoon of sesame oil
Mix 2 large spoon of starch with 50cc water
How to make
①Cut the tofu into about 3cm wide and put it into boiling water for a short while.
②Cut the ginger into about 5㎜ and stir-fry it with 8 dried red pepper, sesame oil, pepper until the ginger turns soft. Get rid of the edges of the garlic and cut it into about 3㎜ and stir fry together with the ginger.
③Add 3 tea spoon of Soybean candy bar shou (Hot paste) and the minced pork and stir fry it together.
④Add 3 large spoon of Tenmenshou（Sweet paste）, 1 large spoon of brown sugar500ccof water added with 1large spoon of dry chicken soup stock into the pan.
⑤Keep on boiling and add the starch to make the sauce thick and put in the boiled tofu.
⑥Take out the dark colored dried red pepper, and adjust the taste with seasonings.
Point in check
Make sure to stir-fry the ginger until it becomes soft, before you put in the garlic. Garlic gets cooked instantly. If you want to make it hot, torn the peppers into small pieces and heat them for a long time. It is not necessary to use both hard and fine-grained tofu. The ratio of hot paste and sweet paste is １：３, check the taste of the source frequently, and adjust the taste with salt, pepper, AJI-NO-MOTO and brown sugar. Finally put the tofu into the sauce to blend. The taste mixing hot paste and sweet paste does not always match the flavor inside the pan. To adjust the taste frequently, is a must to do.
Personal Comments
Make sure to make the sauce hot first and later sweet. The orders to stir-fry should be ginger, garlic and minced pork. To tune the taste of the sauce, add hot paste and sweet paste. Adjusting the taste is a must do. When the taste is making a harmony by adding brown sugar and chicken soup stock, finally put in the tofu. A little adjustment to the sauce changes the taste instantly.
