Hello everybody, it’s me, Dave, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Vegan Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Vegan Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
This vegan mapo tofu recipe is very similar to our ever-popular traditional mapo tofu. The main difference is that instead of ground pork, we're using finely chopped shiitake mushrooms to add. Mapo tofu is a justly popular menu item in many Chinese restaurants It is a quickly cooked dish of braised tofu with minced pork (sometimes Vegan Mapo Tofu.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan mapo tofu using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:
- Get For the Sauce:
- Take Gochujang OR
- Make ready each Fermented Bean Paste and Fermented Chili Paste
- Prepare Mirin or other sweet cooking wine
- Prepare Rice Wine Vinegar
- Take Soy sauce
- Take Vegetable or other Stock
- Prepare For the Tofu:
- Prepare Coconut Oil
- Prepare minced fresh Shiitake Mushrooms OR
- Take dried Shiitake Mushrooms, rehydrated in hot water for 10 min. and rinsed
- Get chopped Green Onions, white and green parts separated
- Get minced Garlic
- Get minced Ginger
- Prepare dried Chili Peppers, any variety OR
- Get Red Pepper Flakes
- Take Firm or Extra Firm Tofu, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- Prepare Corn Starch dissolved in 1-2 tbsp. water
- Make ready Sesame Oil (optional)
- Take Sesame or Caraway Seeds for garnish (optional)
Typically, mapo tofu is made with ground pork. In this vegan mapo tofu recipe, I omitted the pork and used a generous amount of fermented bean pastes to give the dish flavor. Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is an iconic Sichuan dish that's traditionally made from tofu, and ground Since the only ingredient in traditional Mapo Tofu that isn't vegan is the ground meat, it seems like a simple. Mushrooms make this vegan mapo tofu recipe tastier and healthier than the ground meat version.
Steps to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:
- Bring 3-4 cups of water to a simmer over medium-high heat. Slide in the chopped tofu and simmer for 10 minutes.
- Whisk together the sauce ingredients and set aside.
- While the tofu cooks, sauté the garlic, ginger, and the whites of the onions over medium-high heat until fragrant (1-2 minutes).
- Add the mushrooms to the pan and continue cooking until soft.
- Once the mushrooms are done, add the sauce mixture to the pan and bring to a simmer.
- Strain the poached tofu and gently fold it into the sauce.
- Bring the sauce to a boil, stirring frequently to prevent burning.
- Gently stir in the corn starch and sesame oil, and cook until the sauce becomes thick and shiny (3-5 minutes).
- Serve over white rice or plain greek yogurt.
- Granish with the green parts of the onions, and sesame or caraway seeds (optional).
Vegetarian mapo tofu - So easy to make and irresistibly delicious. The tender tofu and mushrooms are simmered in a rich sauce that's bursting with flavor. This Vegan Mapo Tofu brings together the flavours from both Japanese and Chinese versions of Mapo Tofu. The tender tofu is covered in a incredible aromatic spicy sauce with bits of mushroom. Ready in minutes, this vegan mapo tofu relies on a show-stopping sauce of fermented black beans, chili bean paste, and Sichuan peppercorns.
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