Mapo Tofu
- Serves
- 4
- Prep
- 15 min
- Cook
- 15 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
History & Origin
Mapo tofu is a Chengdu classic often traced to a nineteenth-century small restaurant run by a woman remembered as Chen Mapo. Its defining combination is silky tofu, fermented broad-bean chilli paste, beef or pork and the numbing fragrance of Sichuan pepper.