Steps to Make Homemade Vegan Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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

To get started 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 it.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:

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

Instructions 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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