Hello everyone. Shannon from Smith and Daughters here again and tonight I’ll be showing you one of my all-time favourite recipes to make.
It’s Mapo Tofu.
A recipe that’s in my upcoming book to be released at the end of this year. So I’m letting you all in on a little secret.
Let’s start off with our first round of ingredients. We’ll start with tofu. My secret ingredient here is the Alternative Meat Co’s plant-based mince. But if you can’t find this another veggie mince or meat mince will do. Now this is black fungus it comes in a dried form. Once you soak it you end up with this incredible stuff. Here's some spring Onions, ginger, garlic and toasted szechuan peppercorns that I’ve ground up.
So cut your tofu into roughly 2x2cm squares and have it ready in the bowl along with your ginger, spring onions and your garlic mixture.
Okay our wok is smoking hot. To this we are going to add a generous amount of vegetable oil and plant based mince.
To that we are going to add our ginger, spring onion and garlic mixture. Give it a toss through.
Then I’m going to throw in our black fungus. Give it another 30 seconds and then it’s time to add our sauces.
Okay first off, fermented chilli bean paste, straight in. Our black beans, straight in. Add shaoxing wine and our soy sauce.
And once all your sauces are combined add 600mls of stock and bring this bad boy up to the boil.
Now once your mixture has come to the boil we are going to add our drained tofu, straight in. Let’s turn down the heat to a medium simmer and let that sit and cook for about 10 minutes.
So to finish off our dish I have added a splash of corn starch mixed with cold water. Our Szechuan peppercorns, our Szechuan chilli oil and those green spring onion tops that were reserved from earlier.
And there you have it guys my vegan Mapo Tofu.
Ready in under half an hour. Now I love to serve this with some steamed rice and top it with some fresh coriander.
I hope you enjoy it as much as I do and don’t forget stay safe, stay healthy, see you next time guys. Bye!