Hello everybody, it is me, Dave, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Mapo Eggplant is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look wonderful. Mapo Eggplant is something which I have loved my entire life.
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.
To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have mapo eggplant using 17 ingredients and 13 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Mapo Eggplant:
- Prepare to 6 Eggplant (slim Japanese type)
- Take Carrot
- Get to 4 Green bell peppers
- Get Ground pork
- Take Onion
- Prepare Garlic
- Get Ginger
- Get Doubanjiang
- Prepare ★ Miso
- Take ★ Soy sauce
- Make ready ★ Sugar
- Get ★ Oyster sauce
- Prepare ★ Chicken soup stock granules
- Take ★ Shaoxing wine (or cooking sake)
- Get ★ Water
- Get (as needed), to thicken the sauce Katakuriko slurry
- Get 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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