Hello everybody, it is Drew, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
I created this recipe to make a variation of mapo tofu. This is a very popular dish at our house. This recipe is great for people who like eggplant better than tofu! Please check out my popular mapo tofu recipe as well!!
To begin with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have everyone's favorite mapo eggplant using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant:
- Make ready 5 Eggplants (slim Japanese type)
- Get 200 grams Ground meat (beef, pork or a mix)
- Take 1 tbsp plus Doubanjiang
- Prepare 2 clove Garlic
- Make ready 1 the same amount as the garlic Ginger
- Get 2 stalks Japanese leeks
- Take 1 Vegetable oil
- Get 1 Sesame oil
- Get 2 tbsp Katakuriko
- Make ready 1 Sansho pepper or Sichuan pepper
- Prepare Mixed Seasoning Ingredients:
- Take 3 tbsp Tianmianjiang - Chinese sweet bean paste
- Take 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Make ready 1/2 cup - 100 ml Japanese sake
- Prepare 200 ml Chinese soup stock (using 1 1/2 tablespoons of chicken soup stock granules)
- Take 2 tsp Sugar
What is Mapo Eggplant (Mabo Nasu)? Mapo Eggplant, or what we call Mabo Nasu (麻婆茄子) in Japan, is a delicious stir-fried eggplant dish with ground pork and seasoned with a bold savory sauce. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu. Silky roasted eggplant is topped with a slightly spicy and garlicky bean sauce with ground pork, mushrooms and water chestnuts for an added crunch.
Instructions to make Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant:
- Make the ★ mixed seasoning ingredients. (Just combine them together.)
- Roughly chop the eggplants into pieces, and stir-fry in sesame oil, then transfer to a plate.
- Mince the garlic, ginger, and Japanese leek (1/2 stalk), and briefly stir-fry in a generous amount of oil.
- Add the doubanjiang and continue stir-frying (Very thoroughly!). If you don't have enough oil, add more.
- Add ground meat and continue stir-frying.
- Add all the mixed flavouring ingredients at once and bring to a boil.
- Add stir-fried eggplants and simmer for 2-3 minutes while stirring occasionally.
- Add sesame oil, and remaining chopped Japanese leeks, and briefly stir.
- Turn off the heat, and thicken the sauce with katakuriko dissolved in water.
- Serve onto a plate and it's done! Sprinkle sansho pepper or sichuan pepper to your liking.
- Please try my original Mapo Tofu recipe!
Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu. Silky roasted eggplant is topped with a slightly spicy and garlicky bean sauce with ground pork, mushrooms and water chestnuts for an added crunch. Mapo Tofu is one of my favorite Szechuan dishes. I thought I would use eggplant in place of tofu and the results were amazing! Mapo Eggplant A tasty mapo tofu style dish with the tofu replaced with tender and creamy eggplant.
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