Hey everyone, it’s Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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!!
Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook 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)
- Take 200 grams Ground meat (beef, pork or a mix)
- Take 1 tbsp plus Doubanjiang
- Prepare 2 clove Garlic
- Get 1 the same amount as the garlic Ginger
- Make ready 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:
- Get 3 tbsp Tianmianjiang - Chinese sweet bean paste
- Take 2 tbsp Soy sauce
- Take 1/2 cup - 100 ml Japanese sake
- Take 200 ml Chinese soup stock (using 1 1/2 tablespoons of chicken soup stock granules)
- Prepare 2 tsp Sugar
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. 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, fermented black beans.
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 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, fermented black beans. Mapo Eggplant This recipe is a family favorite that I prepare whenever I have a lot of eggplants on hand. Mix the sauce together beforehand to streamline the cooking process. I used onion to add sweetness to the sauce, but you could use Japanese leek as well.
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