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 ...

Mapo tofu combines silky tofu with spicy chili oil, minced beef, and numbing Sichuan peppercorns. It’s rich, bold, and ...

Mapo Tofu is a bold and flavorful dish that pairs tofu and ground pork with a rich, spicy sauce made with oyster sauce, vegetable stock, and garlic. We make a lot of tofu dishes in our house. It’s one ...

This round of recipes goes all in on big flavors. By Mia Leimkuhler Christian Reynoso’s mapo tofu scramble.Credit...Bryan Gardner for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Greg Lofts. I am mad for mapo ...

Robert Sietsema is the former Eater NY senior critic with more than 35 years of experience covering dining in New York City. Sichuan food has become the city’s most popular regional Chinese cuisine, ...

Those last beautiful summer tomatoes are put to good use in Hetty Lui McKinnon’s take on the classic Sichuan dish. By Mia Leimkuhler Today we have for you: A mapo tofu recipe that makes good use of ...

Stick the dried mushrooms in a heatproof bowl and cover with the boiling water. Place a paper towel directly onto the top of the water, covering the whole top of the bowl, to keep the mushrooms ...