Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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. One of my favorite dishes is mapo tofu, but I absolutely love making that same mapo sauce to go with eggplant for mapo eggplant. [Mapo Eggplant] is simply eggplant stir fried in mapo sauce. Originally, mapo sauce is used to prepare mapo tofu 麻婆豆腐 which is a popular Chinese dish from. This is one of my favorite vegetarian dishes, I really love the soft textures and the zing from the Sichuan pepper.
Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to 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:
- Get 5 Eggplants (slim Japanese type)
- Take 200 grams Ground meat (beef, pork or a mix)
- Get 1 tbsp plus Doubanjiang
- Take 2 clove Garlic
- Get 1 the same amount as the garlic Ginger
- Get 2 stalks Japanese leeks
- Take 1 Vegetable oil
- Prepare 1 Sesame oil
- Make ready 2 tbsp Katakuriko
- Prepare 1 Sansho pepper or Sichuan pepper
- Take Mixed Seasoning Ingredients:
- Get 3 tbsp Tianmianjiang - Chinese sweet bean paste
- Prepare 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)
- Get 2 tsp Sugar
The delectable spicy black bean sauce features ground pork, diced mushroom, and water chestnuts for an added crunch. The Japanese-style Mapo Tofu (Mabo Dofu) is incredibly flavorful but less spicy than the Sichuan-style. This is a great hearty dish to please everyone in the family. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province.
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!
This is a great hearty dish to please everyone in the family. Mapo Tofu is a popular Chinese dish from Sichuan province. The classic recipe consists of silken tofu, ground pork or beef, fermented. The Queen of Mapo Doufu Recipes~~The Sichuan Gourmet Association named this the definitive mapo tofu recipe. You may be thinking that's not saying much.
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