Hey everyone, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
Mapo tofu is a justly popular menu item in many Chinese restaurants It is a quickly cooked dish of braised tofu with minced pork (sometimes beef) in a bracing spicy sauce made with fermented black beans and fermented broad bean paste, along with hot red pepper and Sichuan pepper This meatless version with fresh shiitake mushrooms is completely satisfying, and surprisingly easy to make Pressing tofu: To press the tofu, remove the tofu from the packaging and drain the water. Place the block between paper towels or a kitchen towel. Wrap firmly around the block and transfer to a plate.
Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu using 16 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu:
- Take 350 grams Ground pork
- Take 1 block Silken tofu
- Take 1 Onion
- Take 1/2 Carrot
- Get 4 Shiitake mushroom
- Take 1/2 stalk Japanese leek
- Make ready 1 piece Ginger
- Get 3 tsp Sugar
- Take 3 tbsp Soy sauce
- Prepare 3 tsp Chinese soup stock
- Take 300 ml Water
- Get 1 tbsp Miso
- Take 1 Salt and pepper
- Get 1 Sesame oil
- Prepare 1 Katakuriko slurry
- Prepare 1 Doubanjiang
We have an amazing Chinese restaurant near us and they are from Chengdu. They make a wonderful Mapo Tofu but they do use a metric ton of oil. I look forward to trying this. Typically, mapo tofu is made with ground pork.
Steps to make Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu:
- Chop all the ingredients finely. Discard the hard stems of the shiitake mushrooms. Chop the rest of the mushrooms (including the stems).
- Heat sesame oil and fry the ingredients gently.
- Add the ground pork. Stir-fry.
- When the pork starts to brown, pour in 250~300 ml of water, Chinese soup stock powder, sugar and soy sauce and simmer.
- Reduce the sauce by half and add in the tofu. Stir gently without breaking up the tofu.
- 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. Ready in minutes, this vegan mapo tofu relies on a show-stopping sauce of fermented black beans, chili bean paste, and Sichuan peppercorns. Add the chicken stock, cornstarch, soy sauce and sugar to a small bowl and stir to combine. Heat a wok or large frying pan until hot.
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