Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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. It may remind you of Mapo Tofu, one of the most popular Sichuanese classics. The Japanese have our very own version of Mapo Tofu (my recipe. Full of flavor, mapo eggplant is richly savory, spicy, and fragrant, not to mention quick and easy for any night you want a hearty and healthy Chinese dish.
Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook everyone's favorite mapo eggplant using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant:
- Get Eggplants (slim Japanese type)
- Get Ground meat (beef, pork or a mix)
- Prepare plus Doubanjiang
- Make ready Garlic
- Get the same amount as the garlic Ginger
- Prepare stalks Japanese leeks
- Prepare Vegetable oil
- Get Sesame oil
- Prepare Katakuriko
- Make ready Sansho pepper or Sichuan pepper
- Prepare Mixed Seasoning Ingredients:
- Get Tianmianjiang - Chinese sweet bean paste
- Get Soy sauce
- Make ready - 100 ml Japanese sake
- Prepare Chinese soup stock (using 1 1/2 tablespoons of chicken soup stock granules)
- Prepare Sugar
Mapo Eggplant Recipe : A tasty mapo tofu style dish with the tofu replaced with tender and creamy eggplant. One of my favourite Chinese dishes has to be mapo tofu for its use of not only the chili heat and numbing Sichuan peppercorn combo but also for its use of another great Chinese ingredient. A twist on our family favorite mapo tofu (Japanese tofu in a garlicky "meat" sauce), made with strips of eggplant in place of tofu. Although my favorite will always be the classic mapo tofu, the version made with eggplant, called mapo nasu, is seriously delicious!
Steps 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!
A twist on our family favorite mapo tofu (Japanese tofu in a garlicky "meat" sauce), made with strips of eggplant in place of tofu. Although my favorite will always be the classic mapo tofu, the version made with eggplant, called mapo nasu, is seriously delicious! Mapo is the one of the famous classic dishes in Szechuan known as Mapo Tofu. Today I had modifier the recipe using Eggplant vegetables in my recipe and. This is one of my favorite vegetarian dishes, I really love the soft textures and the zing from the Sichuan pepper.
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