This recipe uses the Mapo Tofu cooking sauce mixed with many must-have ingredients such as Broad Bean Paste, salt and etc. The ready-to-use sauce simplifies the whole preparation and cooking process by combining many steps and thus reducing the prep time. More importantly, it maintains the original taste and aroma for authentic Mapo Tofu and recreate the famous dish with no compromise on spiciness and aroma. Lastly, the cooking sauce purposely leaves out the Sichuan Pepper as you can adjust the numbing kick from Sichuan Peppers yourself according to your own preference. You can get the Mapo Tofu Sauce from www.spicyelement.com.