Hey everyone, it is me, Dave, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, spicy vegan lentil mabo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. Tofu is cooked in a spicy and oily, chili- and bean-based sauce, which lends beautiful bright red color to the dish. While the original Shichuan Mapo Tofu is pretty spicy, the Japanese version is.
Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu is one of the most well liked of current trending foods in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s enjoyed by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook spicy vegan lentil mabo tofu using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu:
- Get 100 g lentils, soaked overnight
- Prepare 1 block silk or soft tofu, 350-400 g
- Prepare 3 cloves garlic
- Make ready 1 chunk fresh ginger
- Prepare 1 spring or green onion, white part
- Make ready 1 Tbsp Chinese fermented black beans
- Get 1/2 tsp Sichuan peppercorns, ground
- Make ready 1-2 tsp douban jiang (spicy chili bean paste)
- Get 1 Tbsp sesame oil (or vegetable oil)
- Make ready 1/2 cup vegetable or kombu stock
- Get 2 tsp potato starch
- Get 1 Tbsp soy sauce
- Take 1 tsp sugar
- Get Chopped scallions to garnish
It is wonderful to serve with brown rice. Spicy, delicious mapo tofu is usually made with ground pork, but for this vegan recipe, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms and haven't sacrificed 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. Spicy Quinoa-Lentil Wraps are a Trader Joe's copycat recipe and perfect for lunch, dinner or make ahead meals!
Instructions to make Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu:
- Prep all the ingredients beforehand so you can work quickly while stir-frying (don't forget to soak your lentils for 6-8 hours!). Mince the garlic, green onion and fermented black beans. Grate the ginger and lightly grind the Sichuan peppercorns.
- In a large frying pan or wok, heat the sesame oil and fry the ginger, garlic and spring onion until fragrant. Add the fermented black beans and Sichuan peppercorns and fry for about 1 minute, stirring.
- Add the douban jiang/spicy chili bean paste and fry briefly while mixing it into the other ingredients.
- Add the soaked and drained lentils, then pour in enough water to just cover everything. Bring to a boil, cover and simmer on medium low for about 15 minutes until the lentils are soft.
- While the lentils are cooking, mix 1/2 cup stock with 2 tsp potato starch, 1 Tbsp soy sauce and 1 tsp sugar in a small bowl and set aside.
- Once the lentils are soft, cut the tofu into bite-sized cubes and add it into the pan. Gently toss to mix but avoid stirring or the tofu may fall apart.
- Give the stock mix from step 5 a stir and pour it over the lentils and tofu. Bring to a boil and simmer for a couple minutes until the sauce has thickened a bit. Garnish with chopped scallions and serve.
To create this recipe, I started with the ingredient list using lentils and bulgur wheat, but really wanted to create a recipe that could be gluten-free. Mapo tofu is a hot tofu stew dish that has it's origins from the Szechuan province in China and is one of my favorite comfort foods to make when I'm in a. 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 Vegan Mapo Tofu. Mabo Tofu (or Mapo Tofu) is one of the very popular Chinese dishes in Japan. Tofu in a garlicky, spicy meat sauce is vey tasty, and it goes very Mabo Tofu is so popular that it is found at all Chinese restaurants in Japan, but it is also a staple dinner entree at home.
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