Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, japanese style mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Japanese style mapo tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Japanese style mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.

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.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook japanese style mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Japanese style mapo tofu:

1. Get sauce
2. Prepare 2.5 tbsp chili bean sauce
3. Make ready 2 tbsp mirin
4. Prepare 1 tbsp miso
5. Get 1 tbsp oyster sauce
6. Make ready .5 tbsp soy sauce
7. Get 1 tsp sesame oil
8. Make ready 1 tsp corn/potato starch
9. Make ready 4 tbsp water
10. Make ready 2 garlic cloves
11. Prepare seasoning
12. Get 1 inch ginger
13. Make ready 2 scallions
14. Get 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.

Steps 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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