Famous Spicy Chinese dish - Bean Sauce Tofu

Bean Sauce Tofu

Bean Sauce Tofu is a popular spicy Chinese dish from the Sichuan (Szechuan) province. It is a combination of tofu (bean curd) and minced meat, usually pork or beef, in a spicy chili- and bean-based sauce, typically a thin, oily, and bright red suspension. Variations with other ingredients such as water chestnuts, onions, other vegetables, or wood ear fungus are not considered authentic recreations of the Sichuan classic. The name is often thought to mean "Pocked-Face Lady's Tofu," and is said to come from a (possibly fictional) food vendor by the name of Ma, who made and sold the dish.

True Mapo doufu is powerfully spicy with both conventional "heat" spiciness and the characteristic "mala" (numbing spiciness) flavor of Sichuan (Szechuan) cuisine. The feel of the particular dish is often described by cooks using seven specific Chinese adjectives: (numbing), (spicy hot), (hot temperature), (fresh), (tender and soft), (aromatic), and (flaky). These seven characteristics are considered to be the most defining of authentic Mapo doufu. The authentic form of the dish is increasingly easier to find outside China today, but usually in Sichuanese restaurants that do not adapt the dish for non-Sichuanese tastes.

In the west, the dish is often adulterated, with its spiciness severely toned down to widen its appeal. This happens even in Chinese restaurants, commonly those not specializing in Sichuan (Szechuan) cuisine. In American Chinese cuisine the dish is often made without meat to

appeal to vegetarians, with very little spice, a thick sweet-and-sour sauce, and added vegetables, a stark contrast from the authentic. Vegetarians can often still enjoy the powerful taste of the authentic dish, however, as it can easily be made without meat at all (and simply just tofu) while not toning down the spices; this version is technically referred to as Mala doufu although this name is not always well-known.

Famous Chinese Spicy dish: Kung Pao Chicken

Kung Pao Chicken is a very famous spicy dish in China, it belongs to SiChuan dishes. Lots of friends love it once they try it once time. Today, I'll show you guys how to cook it.

Preparation:
Chicken (usually use chicken breast or thigh meat) 300 grams, 50 grams of Zhashu of peanut, cucumber, dry red pepper 20 grams, 2 grams of pepper, soy sauce 20 grams, parapet County bean paste, ginger, raw powder , eggs, 1, scallion, ginger tablets, cooking wine, sugar (a little bit).

Recipe of step by step:
1. The chicken to the ribs, cutting crosswise knife, cut into Xiaoding (not much), loaded bowl add soy sauce, salt, cooking wine yards taste, together with the egg a bit stand-sheng powder mix well.
2. With soy sauce, sugar, vinegar, MSG, broth, water, transferred into Qianfen soybean meal (not too strong).
3. Dried red pepper seeded remove stalks, cut into sections (lazy can not cut).
Attachment: peanuts with warm water for a while, with deep-fried crisp (note the furnace, cold oil the pot, do not wear, and rather than having Tsui).
The pot:
4, pan fried to five mature, the next dry chili, pepper, fish out the chicken into the causal (time not too long, because to maintain the tender and succulent),
5, leaving a little oil in the pot, and then dried under the hot pepper, pepper, bean paste, etc. smell a little after the spill turned into Chicken copied several times,
Put ginger, onions, etc. into the qian cooking sauce, quick stir fry, add peanut stir fry, clean wok transfer to a plate Serve!

Also: If you want the color not so monotonous, you can add a little green cucumber Ding, Ding Tai peppers (green, red), not much, merely adjust the color.
Features: golden color into a dish, chicken is tender, peanuts crispy, slightly sweet and sour Xianla