How to make vegetarian mapo tofu – who needs meat when you have mushrooms? They add all the rich texture you need

Like a lot of people, I am making the effort to eat less meat, especially when dining at home. I’ve never cooked with mock meat, but where I can, I substitute the original protein-rich vegetarian staple of bean curd and mushrooms.Vegetarian mapo tofuMapo tofu was easy to convert into a vegetarian/vegan version, because the original dish had only a scant amount of meat in the first place. I actually prefer mapo tofu without meat, because mushrooms add so much texture.Use at least two types of…