Sunday Lunch/Dinner: Gluten-free MaPo Tofu and Bamboo Rice🌱🍄🍚😋💚

Hello everyone, hope you have a wonderful weekend so far and a peaceful Sunday to start the week with full force of life! 🤗

I’ve been busy with family and just quick fix for my meals the whole time. Today I am glad to be back and relaxing to prepare home cook meal. 😋👍💚

I recreated this dish called MaPo Tofu from a restaurant that my family loves having it from time to time.

Dish Recipe:

1. Sauté meatless balls chopped up in pieces with onions and olive oil.

2. Pour in mushroom broth with a bit of gf soy sauce and some starch to make into gravy texture.

3. Add sliced mushrooms, cubes soft tofu, herbs seasonings.

4. Last step is garnishing the dish with strips of nori seaweed seeds and fresh sliced jalapeños, basil leaves and toasted sesame seeds.

I love to enjoy this dish with bamboo rice (the green color is from chlorophyll), seaweed and a nice warm cup of jasmine tea. 😋

As always, be inspired, be joyful, take a picture and Enjoy it! 😋❤️

[Kainan Guest]

Looks delicious 😋 I really enjoy MaPo tofu and my mom used to make it all the time. I like your take on it. I would just mix the tofu in the prepared sauce packet and that would be it 😂

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

Awe thanks Kainan. 🤗🙏

Hmmmm yes this is very traditional Chinese Mapo just tofu and mushrooms but I like adding meatless balls to make it hearty and more western 😁 The sauce packet always have wheat in it which I can’t have because of gluten and probably they add bunch of salt and sugar in there. 😅

This is something you can totally cook and enjoy. 😁👍

[Kainan Guest in reply to Hidden]

Yes an I think I will. Looks straightforward enough.

[Hidden in reply to Kainan]

😋👍

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[ZazenRiver345]

Looks healthy and delicious😋. I love my seaweed strips, thanks for recommending them👍... Certainly this is a great meal to start your week of with. Enjoy your day and the week ahead🤗🙏

[Hidden in reply to ZazenRiver345]

Thank you Zazen. 🤗🙏

I enjoyed it so much and now is leftover. 😋

It’s cold over here now, hope you have a great rest of the day over there. 😁👍

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator]

Wow! Koko this looks amazing and super healthy. What a wonderful meal

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Awe thank you Debs very much. 🤗🙏

I enjoyed it so much with rice esp went so well with nori sheet seaweed. 😋👍 The traditional MaPo is very spicy and I usually get hiccups whenever it’s too spicy. 🤔

Hope you are keeping warm and have a good rest of the evening. 🤗

P.S. this chilly weather makes me want some warm dessert now. 😁

[Kitten-whiskers Administrator in reply to Hidden]

I am glad you enjoyed it 😊 less spice no hiccups 😉

I was thinking that, something like an old fashioned warm crumble with vegan vanilla custard - that would go down very well

😊

[Hidden in reply to Kitten-whiskers]

Great idea Debs. 😋👍 It’s been raining hard over here and that would just hit the spot. 😁

[Hidden]

Are Sonya and Lucy looking forward to Christmas then?

Baby is well and looking forward to receiving her presents and spoils!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Hi Catgirl, Merry Christmas to you and Baby. Yes, more toys for them. It’s a wet Christmas here with lots of rain. Hope you and Baby keeping warm and safe! 🤗😻

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Baby is looking forward to her presents off Santa tomorrow!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

I’m sure Baby is going to enjoy her Xmas gift tomorrow. 😁👍

[Hidden]

Years ago I enjoyed tofu at a Japanese restaurant!

[Hidden in reply to Hidden]

Yes Japanese incorporate lots of tofu dishes in their meals. 😁👍

[HungryHufflepuff]

That looks really good 😋

[Hidden in reply to HungryHufflepuff]

Awe thank you HungryHufflepuff. 🤗🙏Hope you are keeping warm and ready for your Christmas dinner tomorrow with family and friends. 😁👍

[HungryHufflepuff in reply to Hidden]

Thank you, I am looking forward to having a nice day tomorrow. I hope you'll have a lovely day too 🐑