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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 ...

Sichuan peppercorns, however ... They add more dimensions to the concept of taste. Inevitably, some prefer the familiar. Their loss.

Adjust to taste. Minced garlic: Adds a hint of garlicky flavor. You can also use garlic powder if you don't have fresh garlic ...

Sichuan pepper isn’t a pepper ... “The whole meal was ruined,” she says. “I couldn’t taste anything.” She methodically picked each little husk off the plate. Only as an adult did ...

The protein typically is deep-fried, but in this recipe from our cookbook “Milk Street 365: The All-Purpose Cookbook for Every Day of the Year,” we opt to pan-fry pork that we first dust in cornstarch ...

"After that, there's no going back. Food doesn't taste balanced without the spice of chilli and pepper." At the risk of not convincing anyone that Sichuan cuisine is more than 'spicy', garlic and ...

enlivened with multiple chiles and plenty of mouth-numbing Sichuan peppercorns. And no, it doesn’t taste like chicken. Rabbit with whole Sichuan peppercorns and various chiles.

Finally in October, the third location of Shanghai Taste (and the first in Texas ... recipe (it is said to have 30 ingredients), but Sichuan peppercorns were surely in the mix, given the familiar ...