Mapo Seasoning Base

Name: Mapo Seasoning Base
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: about ¼ cup (40 ml)
Cuisine: Asian
Ingredients: about 2 tsp (11 ml) Chili Oil; 5 g Ginger; about 1 clove (5 g) Garlic; 5 g Fermented Bean; about ¾ tsp (4 ml) Light Soy; about ¾ tsp (4 ml) Dark Soy; 5 g Black Beans; ½ tsp (3 g) Salt; 3 g Sichuan Pepper

Independent adaptation of a publicly published Zeng Huaijun recipe. Not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Zeng Huaijun.

STIR-FRY SAUCE · TOFU (MAPO TOFU)

In the published recipe, this is the stir-fry sauce for mapo tofu.

Zeng Huaijun's mapo sauce base for tofu.

On the jar

MAPO

Method: stove
Yield: about ¼ cup
Ingredients: 9

Stove sauce. Cook from the recipe

Ratio

Chili Oil 11 mlLight Soy 4 mlDark Soy 4 ml

Ingredients

Chili Oilabout 2 tsp (11 ml)
Ginger5 g
Garlicabout 1 clove (5 g)
Fermented Bean5 g
Light Soyabout ¾ tsp (4 ml)
Dark Soyabout ¾ tsp (4 ml)
Black Beans5 g
Salt½ tsp (3 g)
Sichuan Pepper3 g

Method

This sauce is cooked on the stove. The jar is for storing it, not making it.
Cook ingredients gently according to the published technique, adapted here as pantry quantities only.
Finish off heat; adjust seasoning.

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Provenance

Zeng Huaijun (曾怀君). Sichuan. Cited awards include: Michelin 1* (Song Sichuan / 宋·川菜, Guangzhou).

Originally published as Mapo Seasoning Base (4人份酱料轴).

Adapted from a Zeng Huaijun (曾怀君) recipe (Zeng Huaijun / Michelin Guide dining-in (Song Sichuan mapo tofu)).

FAQ

Can this go in a shake jar?

No. This one needs a blender or stove, so make it from this page. Jars only carry pour-and-shake sauces. Its companion jar is below.

What do the quantities mean?

This page lists the published recipe in household units (with metric in parentheses). On a jar, the printed lines, counts, and QR guide carry the jar-batch amounts. Follow the jar or this page, not a mix of both. Amounts in the jar’s ADD row are rounded to the nearest common spoon measure (T = tablespoon, t = teaspoon) so they can be read off the glass.

Where did this recipe come from?

Adapted from Zeng Huaijun / Michelin Guide dining-in (Song Sichuan mapo tofu) (published as “Mapo Seasoning Base (4人份酱料轴)”). Full citation lives in Provenance.

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