Vegan Mapo Tofu
Vegan Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Vegan Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Vegan Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are fine and they look fantastic.

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 beef) in a bracing spicy sauce made with fermented black.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook vegan mapo tofu using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:
  1. Make ready For the Sauce:
  2. Make ready 3 tbsp. Gochujang OR
  3. Prepare 1 tbsp. each Fermented Bean Paste and Fermented Chili Paste
  4. Get 1 tbsp. Mirin or other sweet cooking wine
  5. Get 2 tbsp. Rice Wine Vinegar
  6. Take 2 tbsp. Soy sauce
  7. Get 1/2 cup Vegetable or other Stock
  8. Get For the Tofu:
  9. Get 1 tbsp. Coconut Oil
  10. Take 1/2 cup minced fresh Shiitake Mushrooms OR
  11. Make ready 1/2 cup dried Shiitake Mushrooms, rehydrated in hot water for 10 min. and rinsed
  12. Make ready 1/2 cup chopped Green Onions, white and green parts separated
  13. Take 3-4 cloves minced Garlic
  14. Take 1-2 tbsp. minced Ginger
  15. Prepare 2-3 dried Chili Peppers, any variety OR
  16. Make ready 2-3 tbsp. Red Pepper Flakes
  17. Make ready 1 package Firm or Extra Firm Tofu, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
  18. Get 1 tbsp. Corn Starch dissolved in 1-2 tbsp. water
  19. Prepare 1/2 tbsp. Sesame Oil (optional)
  20. Get 1-2 tbsp. Sesame or Caraway Seeds for garnish (optional)

Transfer to a serving platter, drizzle with chili oil, and top with scallions and ground. 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. Ready in minutes, this vegan mapo tofu relies on a show-stopping sauce of fermented black beans, chili bean paste, and Sichuan peppercorns. Mushrooms make this vegan mapo tofu recipe tastier and healthier than the ground meat version.

Instructions to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:
  1. Bring 3-4 cups of water to a simmer over medium-high heat. Slide in the chopped tofu and simmer for 10 minutes.
  2. Whisk together the sauce ingredients and set aside.
  3. While the tofu cooks, sauté the garlic, ginger, and the whites of the onions over medium-high heat until fragrant (1-2 minutes).
  4. Add the mushrooms to the pan and continue cooking until soft.
  5. Once the mushrooms are done, add the sauce mixture to the pan and bring to a simmer.
  6. Strain the poached tofu and gently fold it into the sauce.
  7. Bring the sauce to a boil, stirring frequently to prevent burning.
  8. Gently stir in the corn starch and sesame oil, and cook until the sauce becomes thick and shiny (3-5 minutes).
  9. Serve over white rice or plain greek yogurt.
  10. Granish with the green parts of the onions, and sesame or caraway seeds (optional).

Ready in minutes, this vegan mapo tofu relies on a show-stopping sauce of fermented black beans, chili bean paste, and Sichuan peppercorns. Mushrooms make this vegan mapo tofu recipe tastier and healthier than the ground meat version. This is a vegetarian (vegan) version developed from the traditional mapo tofu recipe. In recent years, vegan and vegetarian diets have been more and more popular. We got lots of restaurant focusing on.

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