Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Vegan Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Vegan Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. 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:
- Make ready For the Sauce:
- Take Gochujang OR
- Prepare each Fermented Bean Paste and Fermented Chili Paste
- Make ready Mirin or other sweet cooking wine
- Get Rice Wine Vinegar
- Get Soy sauce
- Get Vegetable or other Stock
- Prepare For the Tofu:
- Take Coconut Oil
- Get minced fresh Shiitake Mushrooms OR
- Make ready dried Shiitake Mushrooms, rehydrated in hot water for 10 min. and rinsed
- Prepare chopped Green Onions, white and green parts separated
- Make ready minced Garlic
- Get minced Ginger
- Prepare dried Chili Peppers, any variety OR
- Prepare Red Pepper Flakes
- Prepare Firm or Extra Firm Tofu, cut into 1/2 inch cubes
- Make ready Corn Starch dissolved in 1-2 tbsp. water
- Prepare Sesame Oil (optional)
- Get Sesame or Caraway Seeds for garnish (optional)
Instructions 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).
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