Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, mapo eggplant. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
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Mapo Eggplant is one of the most popular of current trending meals on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Eggplant is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have mapo eggplant using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Eggplant:
- Get 5 to 6 Eggplant (slim Japanese type)
- Take 1/2 Carrot
- Get 3 to 4 Green bell peppers
- Take 150 grams Ground pork
- Prepare 1/2 Onion
- Prepare 1 clove Garlic
- Prepare 1 piece Ginger
- Get 1/2 tbsp Doubanjiang
- Get 1/2 tbsp ★ Miso
- Get 1 tbsp ★ Soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tsp ★ Sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp ★ Oyster sauce
- Get 2 tsp ★ Chicken soup stock granules
- Make ready 2 tbsp ★ Shaoxing wine (or cooking sake)
- Make ready 300 ml ★ Water
- Prepare 1 (as needed), to thicken the sauce Katakuriko slurry
- Make ready 1 dash Sesame oil
Mapo Eggplant Mapo Eggplant is similar to the classic Chinese-influenced mapo tofu dish, but using Asian eggplants instead. My version uses pan fried slices of eggplants, which are added to stir-fried ground pork and seasonings. This easy-to-cook dish ranges in flavors from salty, sour, sweet to spicy. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu.
Steps to make Mapo Eggplant:
- Combine the ★ ingredients.
- Slice the eggplants into 6 pieces lengthwise. Soak in a bowl of water to remove bitterness. Drain and pat dry well with paper towels.
- Cut up the bell peppers and carrot into easy to eat pieces.
- Finely chop the onion.
- Finely chop the ginger and garlic.
- Put the oil, garlic, ginger and doubanjiang in a frying pan and stir fry until fragrant. If the heat is too strong it will burn, so watch as it cooks.
- Add the ground meat, then the onion, and stir fry.
- When the meat and onions are cooked, add the ★ ingredients and simmer for 5 to 6 minutes.
- Stir fry the eggplant slices. Add more oil if needed.
- Stir fry the bell peppers and carrot.
- Take the stir fried vegetables out of the pan.
- Add katakuriko dissolved in water to the sauce to thicken it, then add the cooked vegetables and mix. Drizzle in a little sesame oil.
- Transfer to a serving plate, and it's done.
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! Mabo Dofu is the Japanese take on the traditional Mapo Tofu Chinese dish from Sichuan province. Traditionally, the recipe is made with tofu, ground meat, doubanjiang (fermented bean paste), and Sichuan peppercorns and chilis.
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