Simple Way to Make Award-winning Vegan Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:

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

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).

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