Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu

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

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 prepare a few ingredients. You can cook veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

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

Mapo tofu (麻婆豆腐) is a popular Chinese dish that originated in the Sichuan Province. This classic recipe is perfect for spice fiends and typically made with soft cubes of silken tofu sautéed with ground pork, green onions, and Sichuan peppercorns simmered in a spicy and rich black bean sauce. 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.

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.

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. 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.

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