Recipe of Any-night-of-the-week Vegan Mapo Tofu

Vegan Mapo Tofu. 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. When you're short on time and you're in need of something nutritious, then this quick vegan mapo tofu will certainly satisfy your taste buds.

It's salty, spicy, and when you scoop this amazingness onto a bowl of rice it's legit game over. Join me in this episode and learn how to make my ultimate vegan mapo tofu recipe. It is spicy, numbing, pungent, and umami — easily the most hearty and fulfilling vegan dish I can think of.

Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I'm gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. When you're short on time and you're in need of something nutritious, then this quick vegan mapo tofu will certainly satisfy your taste buds.

Vegan Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It's appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Vegan Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

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

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:

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

Mapo Tofu (麻婆豆腐) is one of my favorite Sichuan-Taiwanese dishes. Growing up, I remember having (a non-vegan version of) this dish at every family gathering. Indeed, mapo tofu is one of the most famous tofu recipes to have made it out of China. This spicy, delicious dish usually includes small amount of ground pork, but for this vegan version, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms.

Steps 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)..

The result is a vegetarian/vegan dish that hasn't sacrificed a bit of umami! Developing a Vegan Version This vegan mapo tofu recipe, made with shiitake mushroom instead of the usual pork or beef, is actually one of the deepest, most flavorful we've ever had. The secret is of course, is in the mapo sauce. Both versions contain leeks, garlic and ginger but herein lies the biggest difference; the meat version uses water or chicken broth while vegan mapo tofu uses mushroom broth. What this means is that the vegan sauce has twice the umami power plus a layer of earthiness that its meaty cousin doesn't have.

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