Recipe: Perfect Our Family's Mapo Doufu with Lots of Sauce

Our Family's Mapo Doufu with Lots of Sauce.

You can cook Our Family's Mapo Doufu with Lots of Sauce using 13 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve it.

Ingredients of Our Family's Mapo Doufu with Lots of Sauce

1. Prepare 1 block of Tofu (silken).
2. Prepare 100 grams of Ground pork.
3. Prepare 2 of to 3 Wood ear mushrooms.
4. It's 2 tsp of Doubanjiang.
5. It's 2 cm of worth from the tube of each Garlic and ginger (I used tubed type).
6. It's 300 ml of ☆ Lukewarm water.
7. It's 2 tsp of ☆ Chicken stock granules.
8. You need 1 tsp of ☆Tianmianjiang (or miso).
9. It's 1 tsp of ☆ Soy sauce.
10. Prepare 1 tsp of ☆ Ketchup.
11. It's 1 tsp of ☆ Mirin.
12. You need 1 tbsp of Sesame oil (for stir frying).
13. It's 1 of Chinese chives (or green onion) finely chopped.

Our Family's Mapo Doufu with Lots of Sauce step by step

1. Wrap the tofu in kitchen paper towels and microwave for 2 minutes. Leave to drain. Rehydrate the wood ear mushrooms in lukewarm water. Sprinkle a little sake (not listed) on the ground pork and fluff it up..
2. Chop the tofu and wood ear mushrooms into spoonable sizes. Combine the ☆ ingredients together. The chives should be chopped into small rounds. Prepare the katakuriko slurry (dissolve it in a bit of water)..
3. Heat a frying pan and add the ingredients in this order: Sesame oil, garlic, ginger, doubanjiang, then ground pork. Stir fry well. Add the combined sauce ingredients, and when it comes to a boil add the tofu and wood ear mushrooms..
4. Cook over medium heat for a little while, then add the katakuriko slurry to thicken the sauce. Add the chives and then turn off the heat. Transfer to a serving plate and you're done. Delicious over rice!.