Recipe of Super Quick Homemade Vegan Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, vegan mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Vegan Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. Vegan Mapo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.

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 cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:

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