Japanese style mapo tofu
Japanese style mapo tofu

Hey everyone, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, japanese style mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. 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 popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. Japanese style mapo tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
  1. Prepare sauce
  2. Take 2.5 tbsp chili bean sauce
  3. Take 2 tbsp mirin
  4. Prepare 1 tbsp miso
  5. Take 1 tbsp oyster sauce
  6. Take .5 tbsp soy sauce
  7. Make ready 1 tsp sesame oil
  8. Take 1 tsp corn/potato starch
  9. Get 4 tbsp water
  10. Prepare 2 garlic cloves
  11. Take seasoning
  12. Make ready 1 inch ginger
  13. Get 2 scallions
  14. Prepare 1 pack soft tofu
  15. Prepare .5 lb ground pork

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. This Vegan Japanese-Style Mapo Tofu is intensely savoury, comforting and warming, and super easy to make! This is an adapted version of a Chinese dish originating from China's Sichuan province, which consists of mincemeat and soft tofu cooked in a very spicy chilli sauce with fermented black beans.

Instructions to make Japanese style mapo tofu:
  1. Mix together sauce ingredients
  2. Mince garlic and ginger finely and sauté on medium until fragrant
  3. Add meat
  4. When meat is brown add sauce mixture and stir
  5. Add tofu and stir until coated with sauce
  6. Sprinkle chopped up scallions before turning off heat
  7. Serve over rice

This recipe uses a Japanese brand of la doubanjiang (spicy hot bean sauce). You can use any favourite brand of Japanese-style (or even Chinese) hot bean sauce and adjust the seasonings to taste accordingly. Wrap the tofu in a kitchen paper and let it stand to drain. 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.

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