Recipe: Perfect Japanese style mapo tofu

Japanese style mapo tofu. 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. Today's recipe is a Japanese take on a very authentic and famous Chinese Szechuan dish-mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐), or as it's known in Japan: Mabo Tofu (マーボー豆腐).

Tofu in a garlicky, spicy meat sauce is vey tasty, and it goes very well with Steamed Rice. That may be the reason why Japanese people love the dish so much. First of all, our recipe is milder and less spicy than the original Sichuan-style mapo tofu. You can cook Japanese style mapo tofu using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Japanese style mapo tofu

1. It's of sauce.
2. It's 2.5 tbsp of chili bean sauce.
3. It's 2 tbsp of mirin.
4. It's 1 tbsp of miso.
5. Prepare 1 tbsp of oyster sauce.
6. Prepare .5 tbsp of soy sauce.
7. You need 1 tsp of sesame oil.
8. It's 1 tsp of corn/potato starch.
9. It's 4 tbsp of water.
10. It's 2 of garlic cloves.
11. Prepare of seasoning.
12. You need 1 inch of ginger.
13. It's 2 of scallions.
14. It's 1 pack of soft tofu.
15. You need .5 lb of 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.

Japanese style mapo tofu step by step

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.

Japanese Mapo Tofu is flavorful and a little spicy. Mābōdōfu (麻婆豆腐) is the Japanese name for "Mapo Tofu", which is a Chinese dish from Sichuan province. Tofu and ground meat are stir fried with a flavoursome sauce. But the flavour of Mābōdōfu is yet again modified to suit to the Japanese palette and not as spicy as the Chinese version of mapo tofu. What is Japanese Style Mapo Tofu?