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Do you have a recipe? Is that chilli at the bottom a placed topping there or is it mixed through the dish?
Mixed in. I’d put in more.
Mixed through the dish. I didn’t really use any one recipe, but Chinese cooking demystified is a good recipe. Someone linked the video above
This is the recipe I used.
Keep in mind I don’t generally follow recipes to a tee, I will gather the same ingredients and kinda find what makes logical sense when making the food.
The “chilis” are Szechuan peppercorns. They have a numbing effect on your tongue that I didn’t particularly like, so I added less.
Did you use only peppercorns and no chilis? So, a non-spicy mapo tofu?
yum, one of my favorite dishes too! i started with the recipe from serious eats, but didn’t think it had enough sauce. tweaked it to roughly triple the sauce to look like about what you have there.
Mandatory chinese cooking demystified video - https://youtu.be/ZfsZwwrTFD4
I basically learned how to stir fry because of Chinese Cooking Demystified. His Mapo Tofu recipe is one of the simpler ones.
I love that channel! I learned so much about how to make things I grew up eating, I appreciate that they don’t assume you know any knowledge and explain why things are done, makes it easy for a noob like me to generalize the techniques to match what’s in my fridge.
I need to try this, been really craving tofu lately. Thanks for the idea!
I love Mapo Tofu. So few places around here have it on their menu (or if they do, they go real light in the peppercorns). So I picked up some Sichuan peppercorns myself and learned to make it.
This is a great reminder to add it to the dinner calendar for some time this month.
What happened to the color? It’s supposed to be orangey brown from the oils and spices.
Sometimes everything doesn’t come out exactly as it looks on a recipe site (:
This looks incredibly delicious. I should have breakfast.
Funniest food name I can think of off the top of my head. Roughly “pockmarked granny bean curd.” Delicious, though.
I’m also found of “mother and child rice bowl” - Japan’s oyakodon, which features both chicken and egg.
