Mapo tofu is one of my favorite tofu dishes tossed with spicy, savory sauce and shiitake mushrooms and served over rice. This classic Chinese recipe is a main dish that will become a family favorite ...

If you love bold, fiery Sichuan flavours, this authentic Mapo Tofu recipe is the ultimate comfort dish. It’s spicy, numbing, ...

Tofu is now a top-five item on my grocery list and my favorite source of high-quality protein, easily surpassing eggs (not surprising these days) for its affordability and versatility. I like to keep ...

Tofu as an ingredient often takes on the characteristics of whatever sauce or preparation is being used to dress it. In the case of mapo tofu, those soft, placid blocks of tofu guard a scorching ...

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 ...

One spoonful of this fiery chili will instantly wake up your tastebuds. Justin Chapple is a chef, recipe developer, food writer, video host, and cookbook author. In addition, he is the culinary ...

Mapo Tofu gets some heat from doubanjiang (Chinese spicy bean sauce) as well as some Sichuan peppercorns). Photo by Linda Balslev for TasteFood Mapo tofu is one of Sichuan cuisine’s most iconic dishes ...

A decades-long fascination with the much-loved Sichuan dish inspires research — and eventually a little experimentation. By Andrea Nguyen Anyone who says tofu is bland or boring hasn’t eaten mapo tofu ...