Mapo Tofu (Mince & Tofu in Spicy Sauce)

Mapo Tofu - the Japanese version of a classic Sichuan dish with a lot less oil but just as much flavour, made with readily available ingredients. A flavour explosions in a bowl, only 340 calories per serving!

Spicy braised tofu (Dubu-jorim: 두부조림)

Today's recipe is dubu-jorim (spicy braised tofu). It's tofu braised in a savory-spicy sauce and pan fried with caramelized onion, garlic, and green onions, making it juicy, a little spicy, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside. It's a delicious side dish for rice, noodles or porridge...

Sweet and Crunchy Tofu (Dubu-gangjeong: 두부강정)

Let me introduce you to Dubu-gangjeong (두부강정), sweet, spicy, and crunchy tofu! It's part of Korean Buddhist temple cuisine. When I went to Korea to study their cooking techniques and dishes I tasted it many times. I had it in an upscale, expensive temple cuisine restaurant in Seoul and in...

Spicy soft tofu stew with beef (Gogi sundubu-jjigae: 고기 순두부찌개)

Today's recipe is an all-beef version of Korean spicy soft tofu stew called sundubu-jjigae. This stew is savory, spicy, comforting, delicious, and easy to make, which is why it's so popular with Koreans and non-Koreans too. When I was setting out to cook, write, and photograph my second...

Mapo Tofu

The traditional Sichuan dish of silken tofu and ground beef, packed with málà flavor from chili oil and Sichuan peppercorns.

Soybean paste stew with beef (Sogogi doenjang-jjigae: 소고기 된장찌개)

typical Korean breakfast Ingredients. (serves 4) 4 ounces any cuts of beef (or ground beef), cut very thinly. 2 teaspoons vegetable oil. 2 garlic cloves, minced. 4 ounces potato, peeled and cut into ½-inch dice. 4 ounces onion, cut into ½-inch dice. 4 ounces zucchini, cut into ½-inch dice. ¼ cup...

Cheat’s Mapo Tofu Packet

Use this Mapo Tofu packet sauce to create a mapo tofu dish packed with all the flavor, spice, and chili goodness you’d expect from your favorite restaurant.

Vegan Mapo Tofu: Easy Recipe! - The Woks of Life

Spicy, delicious mapo tofu is usually made with ground pork, but for this vegan recipe, we use chopped shiitake mushrooms and haven't sacrificed any umami!

Sweet, sour, crunchy mushrooms (Beoseot-tangsu: 버섯탕수)

Today I want to introduce you to a popular dish in Korea vegetarian restaurants: sweet, sour, and crunchy mushrooms, called beoseot-tangsu. It's very similar to the sweet and sour pork version, tangsuyuk, but it uses shiitake mushrooms instead of meat. You can use any mushrooms but we usually...

The Best Vegan Mapo Tofu

This is my favorite dish of all time, in a completely meat-free form. Using dried and fresh mushrooms complexity and texture to the fiery dish, making it every bit as good as—if not better than—the original.