There’s a dish that brings together fiery heat, creamy tofu, and savory pork into one irresistible bowl. Mapo Tofu wit ...

Add the dark soy sauce and 1 teaspoon of ground Sichuan peppercorn to the meat. Mix and let sit in the fridge for 15 to 20 minutes. (For the peppercorns, you’re probably buying them whole.

Mapo Beans Recipe. Serves 2 as a main dish, 4 as a side dish with rice. Ingredients. 2 tablespoons oil. ½ pound ground beef, pork, turkey, or chopped shiitake mushrooms ...

When my father took over a takeout restaurant in Phoenix in the early 1990s, the menu quickly grew from 18 dishes to over 50. Though beyond impractical and bordering on ridiculous for such a small ...

The origin of mapo tofu is now the stuff of legend, like Paul Bunyan or Gungnir. Sometime during the latter half of the 19th century, Yu explained, laborers used to transport cooking oil in large ...

Finely chopped broccoli stands in for rice in these colorful bowls of tofu seasoned with a sauce of ginger, lemon, soy sauce, and sweet Thai chili sauce. Look for extra-firm tofu and cut it into ...

I am mad for mapo tofu.It is a textural-flavor fever dream: soft tofu, nubbly ground meat, maybe some crisp-tender fermented greens in a fire-engine-red blanket of tongue-tingling, oily spices.