Mapo Tofu is a well known Sichuan dish recognized for its bold flavor and signature numbing spice. Soft tofu and minced beef are simmered in a rich sauce made with chili oil, chili paste, garlic, and ...

This recipe for Chinese Mapo Tofu is a classic, spicy, numbing, saucy tofu dish that comes together in 20 minutes. It's bold, comforting, and perfect over a bowl of freshly steamed rice. Mapo Tofu is ...

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 ...

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 ...

Zachary Hurdle, guest chef once a week at Eureka Compass Vegan Food in St. Paul, Minnesota, prepares this popular tofu recipe below for his customers who regularly request the richly flavored Chinese ...

This recipe is one of Slate’s 10 Best Recipes of 2025. This oil-slicked stew from China’s Sichuan province is one you don’t just taste but feel. Mapo tofu perfectly embodies the Sichuanese flavor ...

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 ...