Hello everybody, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, vegan mapo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Vegan mapo tofu is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Vegan mapo tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.

This vegan mapo tofu recipe is very similar to our ever-popular traditional mapo tofu. The main difference is that instead of ground pork, we're using finely chopped shiitake mushrooms to add. 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.

To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have vegan mapo tofu using 13 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Vegan mapo tofu:

1. Get 1 tbsp Sichuan/Schezwan pepper
2. Prepare 1.5 tbsp Chilli garlic sauce,
3. Make ready 1.5 tbsp Chilli black bean sauce
4. Prepare 3-4 tianjin red chillies
5. Make ready As needed Veg broth
6. Prepare As needed Ginger and garlic
7. Take soy sauce and vinegar
8. Get 1 tbsp corn flour or besan
9. Take Veggies
10. Prepare Shiitake mushrooms or/and Oyster mushrooms
11. Take 15 oz canned chickpeas
12. Take 1 tofu block
13. Take spring onions

The secret to making the best tasting mapo tofu is to use the freshest Sichuan. Vegan Mapo Tofu is the vegan version of the popular Sichuan dish. It is packed with lot of flavors and heat from Sichuan peppercorns, bean chili sauce! Mapo Tofu is one of the greatest dishes in the world, and it exists not only inspite of, but because of Here's how to make a vegan version that is not only as good as, but may well be better than the real.

Steps to make Vegan mapo tofu:

1. Roast Schezwan pepper (or normal pepper) in a pan. Crush them.
2. Add chilli garlic sauce and chilli black bean sauce in pot (generous qty). Add sesame seeds. Add tian jin red chillies. (Chinese red chilli)
3. Roughly mash chickpeas and add to pot. Add shiitake mushrooms or oyster mushrooms into the mashed chickpeas. (If using dried shiitake mushrooms boil them in water and then you can use water as broth).
4. Mix it well. Cook it till majority water from mushroom evaporates.
5. Add ginger and garlic to the pot.
6. Add the crushed roasted Schezwan pepper.
7. Add veg broth.
8. Add soy sauce. Add rice vinegar (or normal white vinegar). (keep adding 1 tsp till taste is great)
9. Add corn flour to make slurry. (alternate: use besan) mix flour in little water and then add to pot. Let everything boil well.
10. Add tofu. Let it cook. Add spring onions.
11. Serve with rice/udon noodles.
12. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

It is packed with lot of flavors and heat from Sichuan peppercorns, bean chili sauce! Mapo Tofu is one of the greatest dishes in the world, and it exists not only inspite of, but because of Here's how to make a vegan version that is not only as good as, but may well be better than the real. 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. This Vegan Mapo Tofu brings together the flavours from both Japanese and Chinese versions of Mapo Tofu.

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