A delicious and easy Mapo Tofu recipe for comfort food. Features ground pork, soft tofu, garlic, green onions, shoyu, mirin, ...

Want something fiery and comforting? Learn how to make Mapo Tofu — soft tofu cooked in a spicy, garlicky sauce with ground meat, fermented bean paste, and Sichuan peppercorns. It’s bold, numbing, and ...

Mapo tofu — minced meat and silky tofu bathed in chile sauce — is our all-time favorite Chinese takeout dish. Yours, too? This simple DIY version comes together ...

If you've eaten at a Sichuan restaurant, chances are you've had some version of mapo tofu. Whether or not you enjoyed it depends on your spice tolerance and, of course, the quality of the restaurant ...

I eat a lot of plant-based meals, but often the fact that they don’t contain meat is beside the point. So it’s one of my pet peeves when a recipe, restaurant or brand makes a bigger deal out of what a ...

Stir together 1 cup hot water and mushroom seasoning in a small bowl until well dissolved. Set aside. Toast chiles in a 14-inch wok over medium-low, stirring often, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Add ...

Famed Chinese chef Yu Bo’s mapo tofu takes the spicy, hearty and pleasingly numbing dish and kicks it into a higher gear. The addition of avocado, a California twist, is — and I don’t always love this ...

Anyone who says tofu is bland or boring hasn’t eaten mapo tofu, the intoxicatingly spicy, fragrant dish from the Sichuan province of China. Unlike the gentle Vietnamese tofu dishes I grew up with in ...

Yu Bo and his wife, Dai Shuang, gained international fame with their restaurant Yu’s Family Kitchen in Chengdu, China; ⁠consuming the painstakingly crafted and beautiful 16 cold dishes that begin ...

Tofu is much more than a meat-free alternative, especially when you buy the silken type. Silken tofu is mild in flavor and velvety compared to firmer varieties. So it can add a creamy essence to sweet ...