My family's Mapo Eggplant
My family's Mapo Eggplant

Hello everybody, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, my family's mapo eggplant. One of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really 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.

My family's Mapo Eggplant is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. My family's 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 my family's mapo eggplant using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make My family's Mapo Eggplant:
  1. Take Eggplant (slim Japanese type)
  2. Make ready Ground pork
  3. Prepare Oil
  4. Take medium-sized thick stalk Japanese leek (the white part)
  5. Make ready Garlic
  6. Get Ginger
  7. Prepare Doubanjiang
  8. Take Tianmianjiang (Chinese sweet bean paste)
  9. Prepare ☆Oyster sauce
  10. Make ready ☆Soy sauce
  11. Get ☆Sugar
  12. Take ☆Chicken soup stock granules
  13. Make ready ☆Sake
  14. Take ☆water
  15. Make ready Katakuriko (dissolved in 2 tablespoons water)
  16. Get to 2 teaspoons Sesame oil

During the Qing Dynasty, there was a lady from Chen family who first created the dish in their restaurant. Make a trip to the Asian market and make one of your favorite Chinese food dishes at home! Notes for the cook: Ingredients can be found at any Asian market. You can just buy ONE type of eggplant or you can use a mixture of both as indicated below.

Steps to make My family's Mapo Eggplant:
  1. Remove the stems from the eggplants, and cut into large easy-to-eat pieces. Finely chop the Japanese leeks, carrots, and ginger. Mix together the ☆ seasoning ingredients.
  2. Quickly fry the eggplants in 360°F/180°C oil.
  3. Heat up 2 tablespoons of oil in a pan, and saute the Japanese leeks, garlic, and ginger. Add the ground meat once it's aromatic, and saute until the meat has completely cooked through.
  4. Add the Doubanjiang spicy bean paste to step 3, and saute some more. Thoroughly drain the oil from the eggplants at step 2, and mix into the pan.
  5. Add the mixed ☆ flavoring to Step 4, and lightly boil. Thicken with katakuriko, add sesame oil for fragrance, and it is done ♪
  6. I doubled the amount of meat, added green peppers, and turned it into Mapo Eggplant over rice. Guys will love this hearty dish and will gobble it all up.
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Eggplant with Minced pork is a.n eggplant eversion of Mābōdōfu. The fried eggplant gives a richer flavour to the dish and a completely different texture. Keyword: eggplant, mābō eggplant, Mābō Nasu, Mābōdōfu, mapo tofu, minced pork. Vegetarian mapo tofu - So easy to make and irresistibly delicious. The tender tofu and mushrooms are simmered in a rich sauce that's bursting with flavor.

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