Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, spicy eggplant mapo tofu (un-stir fried eggplant and tofu). One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu) is one of the most favored of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu) is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re nice and they look wonderful.
Great recipe for Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu). #veganfriendly #vegetarian # oil free # sugar free Mapo Tofu is one of the China's famous dishes. And it's also one of our favorite Chinese food dishes. We can easily order it whenever we go to a Chinese restaurant.
To begin with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook spicy eggplant mapo tofu (un-stir fried eggplant and tofu) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu):
- Take eggplant wash and dry pat then diced into 1-2” cubes
- Get of silky tofu diced into small cubes
- Take Chopped/sliced green onion
- Prepare Minced garlic (3 cloves garlics)
- Prepare Grated fresh ginger (1 tsp)
- Make ready dates soaked in 1/4 cup water (you can substitute with sugar)
- Get Gochujang (fermented red pepper paste) you can get it in any Asian store. (Less or more)
- Get Mushrooms powder
- Take Soy sauces
- Make ready cornstarch (less or more)
- Prepare cayenne pepper (optional)
- Get Water
Put in a simmer until the eggplant is cooked and tender. In a small bowl mixed the cornstarch and water. Pouring into the eggplant mixture, stir quickly, taste it and add the green onion. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu.
Steps to make Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu):
- Using your skillet over medium high heat, roasted the eggplants until turning brown. Set aside.
- Meanwhile microwave the dates in 40 seconds. Smashed it and strained it.
- Still using the skillet add the dates liquid, garlics, ginger, mushrooms powder,gochujang paste, cayenne pepper, and soy sauce. Add more water, mixed well then add the tofu.
- Cover with the lid, and let it boiled.
- When the tofu mixture boiled add the eggplant, mixed well. Put in a simmer until the eggplant is cooked and tender.
- In a small bowl mixed the cornstarch and water. Pouring into the eggplant mixture, stir quickly, taste it and add the green onion. Turn off the heat.
- Then the spicy eggplant mapo tofu is ready to served along with steam rice or brown rice as your choice. Enjoy 😊
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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! 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, then later added them to stir-fried ground pork and seasonings.
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