Step-by-Step Guide to Make Super Quick Homemade Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, spicy vegan lentil mabo tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu is something which I’ve loved my entire life.

To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have spicy vegan lentil mabo tofu using 14 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu:

1. Take lentils, soaked overnight
2. Prepare silk or soft tofu, 350-400 g
3. Get garlic
4. Make ready chunk fresh ginger
5. Prepare spring or green onion, white part
6. Get Chinese fermented black beans
7. Take Sichuan peppercorns, ground
8. Prepare douban jiang (spicy chili bean paste)
9. Get sesame oil (or vegetable oil)
10. Get vegetable or kombu stock
11. Prepare potato starch
12. Get soy sauce
13. Take sugar
14. Prepare Chopped scallions to garnish

Steps to make Spicy Vegan Lentil Mabo Tofu:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. Add the douban jiang/spicy chili bean paste and fry briefly while mixing it into the other ingredients.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.

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