How to Make Perfect Easy Spicy Mapo Doufu

Easy Spicy Mapo Doufu.

You can have Easy Spicy Mapo Doufu using 19 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Easy Spicy Mapo Doufu

1. Prepare 300 grams of Silken tofu (cut into 1 1/2 cm cubes).
2. Prepare 150 grams of Ground meat.
3. Prepare 1/2 of Japanese leek (finely chopped).
4. It's 1 of Vegetable oil (for stir frying).
5. It's 1 of to 2 teaspoons Sesame oil (to finish).
6. You need 1 pinch of Salt.
7. You need of Combined seasoning ingredients (mapo sauce):.
8. Prepare 200 ml of ◎ Water.
9. It's 1 tbsp of ◎ Doubanjiang.
10. It's 2 tsp of ◎ Grated garlic.
11. You need 2 tsp of ◎ Grated ginger.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of ◎ Chicken soup stock.
13. You need 1 tsp of ◎ Miso.
14. It's 1 of ◎ Ichimi spice (if you like it spicy).
15. It's of For the katakuriko slurry:.
16. You need 2 tbsp of Water.
17. You need 1 tbsp of Katakuriko.
18. It's of Toppings.
19. It's 1 of Ground sansho pepper (good if you have it).

Easy Spicy Mapo Doufu step by step

1. Pour salted water (not listed) in a pan and bring to a boil. Add the silken tofu and boil (just until it's heated through)..
2. Drain the tofu from Step 1 into a sieve, and mix together the sauce ingredients marked ◎..
3. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan, and stir fry the ground meat until crumbled. Add the mixed sauce and the leek and bring to a boil..
4. Lower the heat a little and add the katakuriko dissolved in water in 2 to 3 batches, mixing well between additions. When completely mixed together, turn up the heat until the sauce has thickened..
5. Add the tofu cubes to Step 4, and coat with the sauce while shaking the pan..
6. Drizzle in the sesame oil to finish. When it's mixed, it's done..