Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu

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Cut the tofu into cubes, and drain in a sieve. Put the ground pork, garlic, ginger and ● flavoring ingredients in a frying pan and mix together. Adjust the amount of doubanjiang (spiciness) to taste! When the mixture looks like this, turn on the heat.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook easy low-calorie and fat-reduced mapo tofu using 20 ingredients and 15 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu:
  1. Get 80 to 100 grams Ground pork
  2. Prepare 1 block Tofu (firm or silken)
  3. Prepare 1 tsp Garlic (finely chopped)
  4. Get 1 tsp Ginger (finely chopped)
  5. Make ready 1⁄2 Japanese leek (the green part too)
  6. Prepare 1 to 3 teaspoons ● Doubanjiang
  7. Make ready 1 heaped tablespoon ● Tianmianjiang
  8. Prepare 2⁄3 tsp ● Douchi (or substitute tianmianjiang)
  9. Get 1 dash ● Pepper
  10. Take Combined seasoning ingredients:
  11. Get 1 tsp ○ Soy sauce
  12. Prepare 1 tbsp ○ Sake (use shaoxing wine if possible)
  13. Take 1 tsp ○ Chicken bone soup stock granules
  14. Get 1 to 2 teaspoons ○ Oyster sauce
  15. Get 1⁄2 tsp ○ Umami seasoning (Ajinomoto, etc.)
  16. Get 180 ml ○ Water
  17. Get 1 to 1 1⁄2 tablespoons Katakuriko dissolved in an equal amount of water
  18. Get Optional additions:
  19. Prepare 1 tsp Sesame oil
  20. Prepare 1 dash Sichuan or Szechuan pepper (hua jiao, or use sansho pepper)

Set both next to the stove. Heat up a wok and pour in the cooking oil and chili oil. Add the chopped garlic, ground pork, spicy bean paste and stir-fry until the pork is half-done. Then add in chili powder, soy sauce, fermented black beans and stir-fry until aromatic.

Steps to make Easy Low-Calorie and Fat-Reduced Mapo Tofu:
  1. Make narrow cuts in the leek about halfway through. Make cuts halfway through on the other side too.
  2. Chop it up after making the cuts and you'll end up with very finely minced leek. With this method, the cut end of the leek doesn't spread out so it's really easy to chop.
  3. Finely chop the garlic and ginger. chop up the douchijiang too.
  4. Combine the ○ ingredients and mix well. Cut the tofu into cubes, and drain in a sieve.
  5. Put the ground pork, garlic, ginger and ● flavoring ingredients in a frying pan and mix together. Adjust the amount of doubanjiang (spiciness) to taste!
  6. When the mixture looks like this, turn on the heat.
  7. After a while, the fat will come out of the pork. Just use that fat to stir fry the pork until it's crumbly.
  8. Add half the leek and keep stir frying.
  9. Add the combined flavoring ingredients from Step 4. When it comes to a boil, add the tofu.
  10. Add the rest of the leek (including the green parts), and adjust the seasoning. Adjust the saltiness with soy sauce, and if you want some sweetness add some sugar (not listed in the ingredient list)!
  11. When the tofu has warmed through, thicken the sauce with katakuriko dissolved in water. Don't add it all at once; add it little by little while observing how thick the sauce is getting.
  12. If you mix it with a spatula the tofu will fall apart, so shake the frying pan around to mix it up. Optionally add some sesame oil and sansho pepper to finish to make it nicely fragrant.
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Add the chopped garlic, ground pork, spicy bean paste and stir-fry until the pork is half-done. Then add in chili powder, soy sauce, fermented black beans and stir-fry until aromatic. In a medium bowl, stir together the chicken broth, hot bean paste, cornstarch, hot sesame oil, soy sauce and sugar; set aside. Heat the wok over medium-high heat. Bring a kettle of water to a rolling boil.

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