Turkey with Spicy Black Beans in Tofu Dumplings

This homey meal borrows its flavors from my mother’s mapo dofu, a Chinese dish comprised of ground meat (traditionally, it would probably be pork, but at our house in Detroit beef was used instead) and chunks of tofu cooked with garlic, ginger, some kind of chile sauce, and Chinese fermented black-bean sauce. Cornstarch was used as a thickener, and the hashlike mixture would be served over rice and strewn with some chopped scallion greens. One of the first things I learned to make, i