Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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.
Vegan mapo tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Vegan mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook vegan mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Vegan mapo tofu:
- Get Sichuan/Schezwan pepper
- Prepare Chilli garlic sauce,
- Prepare Chilli black bean sauce
- Get tianjin red chillies
- Take Veg broth
- Get Ginger and garlic
- Make ready soy sauce and vinegar
- Take corn flour or besan
- Make ready Veggies
- Take Shiitake mushrooms or/and Oyster mushrooms
- Make ready canned chickpeas
- Get tofu block
- Get spring onions
Ready in minutes, this vegan mapo tofu relies on a show-stopping sauce of fermented black beans, chili bean paste, and Sichuan peppercorns. Can I Make Vegan Mapo Tofu That's Better Than The Real Thing? Cook until tofu is heated through. Transfer to a serving platter, drizzle with chili oil, and top with scallions and ground Sichuan.
Steps to make Vegan mapo tofu:
- Roast Schezwan pepper (or normal pepper) in a pan. Crush them.
- Add chilli garlic sauce and chilli black bean sauce in pot (generous qty). Add sesame seeds. Add tian jin red chillies. (Chinese red chilli)
- Roughly mash chickpeas and add to pot. Add shiitake mushrooms or oyster mushrooms into the mashed chickpeas. (If using dried shiitake mushrooms boil them in water and then you can use water as broth).
- Mix it well. Cook it till majority water from mushroom evaporates.
- Add ginger and garlic to the pot.
- Add the crushed roasted Schezwan pepper.
- Add veg broth.
- Add soy sauce. Add rice vinegar (or normal white vinegar). (keep adding 1 tsp till taste is great)
- Add corn flour to make slurry. (alternate: use besan) mix flour in little water and then add to pot. Let everything boil well.
- Add tofu. Let it cook. Add spring onions.
- Serve with rice/udon noodles.
Cook until tofu is heated through. Transfer to a serving platter, drizzle with chili oil, and top with scallions and ground Sichuan. This vegan version has all the flavors that you need: numbing, spicy, salty. Vegetarian mapo tofu has all of the dazzling mala umami of the original and is really easy to put together. (Vegan). The secret to making the best tasting mapo tofu is to use the freshest Sichuan.
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