Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look 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 here), and if you enjoy the dish, you will.
Mapo Eggplant is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Mapo Eggplant is something which I’ve loved my whole life. They’re nice and they look fantastic.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook mapo eggplant using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Eggplant:
- Make ready 5 to 6 Eggplant (slim Japanese type)
- Make ready 1/2 Carrot
- Get 3 to 4 Green bell peppers
- Make ready 150 grams Ground pork
- Make ready 1/2 Onion
- Make ready 1 clove Garlic
- Take 1 piece Ginger
- Prepare 1/2 tbsp Doubanjiang
- Take 1/2 tbsp ★ Miso
- Make ready 1 tbsp ★ Soy sauce
- Get 1 tsp ★ Sugar
- Prepare 1 tbsp ★ Oyster sauce
- Make ready 2 tsp ★ Chicken soup stock granules
- Take 2 tbsp ★ Shaoxing wine (or cooking sake)
- Prepare 300 ml ★ Water
- Make ready 1 (as needed), to thicken the sauce Katakuriko slurry
- Prepare 1 dash Sesame oil
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. This easy-to-cook dish ranges in flavors from salty, sour, sweet to spicy. You can substitute sliced aubergines if you don't have the Asian eggplant variety.
Instructions 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.
Mapo tofu or mapo doufu is a dish where tofu and ground pork are served in a tasty chili and bean sauce but I was thinking that it would be nice to try replacing the tofu with eggplant and braising it in the sauce until it was nice and tender. This dish includes a few ingredients that may not be in every pantry but it is well worth the effort. 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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