Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They are 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 ingredients. You can have everyone's favorite mapo eggplant using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant:
- Get 5 Eggplants (slim Japanese type)
- Prepare 200 grams Ground meat (beef, pork or a mix)
- Prepare 1 tbsp plus Doubanjiang
- Make ready 2 clove Garlic
- Take 1 the same amount as the garlic Ginger
- Get 2 stalks Japanese leeks
- Make ready 1 Vegetable oil
- Get 1 Sesame oil
- Take 2 tbsp Katakuriko
- Get 1 Sansho pepper or Sichuan pepper
- Take Mixed Seasoning Ingredients:
- Prepare 3 tbsp Tianmianjiang - Chinese sweet bean paste
- Take 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Take 1/2 cup - 100 ml Japanese sake
- Get 200 ml Chinese soup stock (using 1 1/2 tablespoons of chicken soup stock granules)
- Get 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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