Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

Put oil in a wok or wide skillet over medium heat. Add red peppers, black beans and bean paste and. Indeed, mapo tofu is one of the most famous tofu recipes to have made it out of China. This spicy, delicious dish usually includes small amount of ground pork, but for this vegan version, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu:
  1. Make ready 350 grams Ground pork
  2. Take 1 block Silken tofu
  3. Make ready 1 Onion
  4. Make ready 1⁄2 Carrot
  5. Make ready 4 Shiitake mushroom
  6. Make ready 1⁄2 stalk Japanese leek
  7. Prepare 1 piece Ginger
  8. Make ready 3 tsp Sugar
  9. Take 3 tbsp Soy sauce
  10. Prepare 3 tsp Chinese soup stock
  11. Make ready 300 ml Water
  12. Make ready 1 tbsp Miso
  13. Make ready 1 Salt and pepper
  14. Prepare 1 Sesame oil
  15. Prepare 1 Katakuriko slurry
  16. Take 1 Doubanjiang

This is an authentic Sichuan-style mapo tofu, which is both spicy and aromatic. Typically, mapo tofu is made with ground pork. In this vegan mapo tofu recipe, I omitted the pork and used a generous amount of fermented bean pastes to give the dish flavor. One of them is doubanjiang (豆瓣醬), a Sichuan-style sauce made with fermented broad beans/fava beans.

Steps to make Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu:
  1. Chop all the ingredients finely. Discard the hard stems of the shiitake mushrooms. Chop the rest of the mushrooms (including the stems).
  2. Heat sesame oil and fry the ingredients gently.
  3. Add the ground pork. Stir-fry.
  4. When the pork starts to brown, pour in 250~300 ml of water, Chinese soup stock powder, sugar and soy sauce and simmer.
  5. Reduce the sauce by half and add in the tofu. Stir gently without breaking up the tofu.
  6. Reduce the heat to low and add the miso (add the dobanjiang to taste). Simmer gently without boiling. Stir in the katakuriko slurry to thicken. Serve immediately.

In this vegan mapo tofu recipe, I omitted the pork and used a generous amount of fermented bean pastes to give the dish flavor. One of them is doubanjiang (豆瓣醬), a Sichuan-style sauce made with fermented broad beans/fava beans. About Recipes Classes Contact Recipes Classes Contact Shiitake mushroom is one of the key ingredient for vegan stocks because of the large group of amino acid. Usually mapo tofu is cooked with minced pork or sometimes with beef. I make this vegetarian version so that the vegetarian foods can also enjoy it.

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