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

Vegan Mapo Tofu.

Hey everyone, it is Drew, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I'm gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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

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