Hello everybody, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Vegan Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Vegan Mapo Tofu is something that I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan mapo tofu using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan Mapo Tofu:

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

Steps 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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