Doubanjiang (broad bean paste)

Doubanjiang For Seasoning Many Chinese Dishes

Chinese Doubanjiang Recipes otherwise called broad bean paste recipes are healthy recipes undoubtedly. The Chinese use this salty paste in many of their dishes. They get it from fermented broad beans, rice, salt, soybeans, and other spices. The Chinese use both spicy and non-spicy regular Doubanjiang in their dishes. They use it for its hot and favory nature to add taste to their dishes. Easy Doubanjiang recipes are popular in China because they use it for seasoning many famous dishes like mapo tofu and twice-cooked pork. Also, the Chinese use different versions of this bean ingredient in many of their dishes to enhance the taste.

When it comes to making the best Doubanjiang recipe, you should know one thing about this ingredient. It will be too salty either to use as a sole flavor in a dish or used for garnishing. So, the thing you should do is to combine it with other ingredients to do the magic. If you prepare a Doubanjiang home recipe to serve four people, you can just a single tablespoon of this ingredient. To get a tremendous taste from this ingredient, you can fry in oil with ginger and garlic. Then, you can mix all of them in noodles or rice to make them tasty.

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