Hello everybody, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, spicy vegan lentil mabo tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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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. This Vegan Mapo Tofu brings together the flavours from both Japanese and Chinese versions of Mapo Tofu.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. 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:
- Take lentils, soaked overnight
- Take silk or soft tofu, 350-400 g
- Prepare garlic
- Make ready chunk fresh ginger
- Take spring or green onion, white part
- Get Chinese fermented black beans
- Prepare Sichuan peppercorns, ground
- Prepare douban jiang (spicy chili bean paste)
- Get sesame oil (or vegetable oil)
- Prepare vegetable or kombu stock
- Make ready potato starch
- Prepare soy sauce
- Make ready sugar
- Take Chopped scallions to garnish
This is a vegan version of this spicy and flavorful dish. Mabo tofu, a tofu and vegetable stew with a gravy sauce, is one of the most popular homecooked dishes in Japan. This recipe, inspired from a dish made by those homecooked meals, is recreated with a healthy touch and will be enjoyed by children and all ages. It is wonderful to serve with brown rice.
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.
In this vegan mapo tofu recipe, I omitted the pork and used a generous amount of fermented bean pastes to give the dish flavor. Get ready for some serious spice! This vegan mapo tofu recipe is quite spicy. This spicy lentil dahl recipe is a dairy-free vegan soup that is hearty and delicious. It's also easy and inexpensive to make and great with flatbread.
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