Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu
Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu

Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, veggie packed! healthy mapo tofu. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look fantastic. Veggie Packed! Healthy Mapo Tofu is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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. Then the tofu dish with beef become more popular and her guests gave the name: Mapo tofu. For the tofu, I recommend using regular tofu not firm tofu or silken tofu.

To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have 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. Prepare 350 grams Ground pork
  2. Get 1 block Silken tofu
  3. Prepare 1 Onion
  4. Get 1/2 Carrot
  5. Make ready 4 Shiitake mushroom
  6. Make ready 1/2 stalk Japanese leek
  7. Make ready 1 piece Ginger
  8. Make ready 3 tsp Sugar
  9. Take 3 tbsp Soy sauce
  10. Take 3 tsp Chinese soup stock
  11. Prepare 300 ml Water
  12. Take 1 tbsp Miso
  13. Make ready 1 Salt and pepper
  14. Take 1 Sesame oil
  15. Take 1 Katakuriko slurry
  16. Make ready 1 Doubanjiang

Mushrooms make this vegan mapo tofu recipe tastier and healthier than the ground meat version. In a small bowl, combine the corn starch and water. Add oil to a large skillet over medium heat, and add in your ground meat/veggie crumbles along with the soy sauce, black bean paste (or doubanjiang), gochujiang or sambal oelek (omit if you're using doubanjiang), and ginger powder. This Vegetarian Mapo Tofu slides right into the meat-free category without a lot of fuss.

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.

Add oil to a large skillet over medium heat, and add in your ground meat/veggie crumbles along with the soy sauce, black bean paste (or doubanjiang), gochujiang or sambal oelek (omit if you're using doubanjiang), and ginger powder. This Vegetarian Mapo Tofu slides right into the meat-free category without a lot of fuss. My previous forays into a vegan version of the Sichuan staple have veered to either extreme — lots of. Mapo tofu is extremely popular both in and outside of China, perhaps because it was meant to be adaptable. The type and amount of both tofu and meat is often varied and even the spicy sauce can be.

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