Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, healthy mapo eggplant with tofu. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
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Great recipe for Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu. I wanted to eat some mapo eggplant but didn't have any ground meat! That's when I remembered that there's a method of cooking tofu so that it has the texture of ground meat, so I tried it out to in this version of mapo eggplant.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have healthy mapo eggplant with tofu using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu:
- Take Eggplants
- Take Carrot
- Get Firm tofu
- Take ☆ Japanese leek
- Prepare ☆ Ginger
- Prepare ☆ Garlic
- Prepare to 2 teaspoons ☆ Doubanjiang
- Get ☆ Sansho pepper powder (or sansho peppercorns)
- Make ready ◆ Chicken soup stock granules
- Get ◆ Sake
- Make ready ◆Tian mian jiang (Chinese sweet bean paste)
- Get ◆ Soy sauce
- Get ◆ Oyster sauce
- Prepare ◆ Boiling water
- Get + more to finish Sesame oil
- Get Vegetable oil
- Take Soy sauce
- Take Katakuriko slurry
- Get Green onions (to finish)
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. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu. Silky roasted eggplant is topped with a slightly spicy and garlicky bean sauce with ground pork, mushrooms and water chestnuts for an added crunch.
Steps to make Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu:
- Wrap the tofu in paper towels, put on a heatproof dish and microwave for 2 minutes. Drain off the excess moisture completely.
- Cut the eggplant lengthwise into 4 to 8 slices. Soak the slices in water for about 5 minutes then drain well, and pat dry well with paper towels.
- Finely chop the leek, ginger and garlic. Thinly slice the green onion you'll be using as topping too.
- Cut the carrot in half lengthwise, then slice thinly diagonally. Combine the ◆ ingredients together.
- Heat up 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in a wok or frying pan. Add the well drained tofu, and scramble with several cooking chopsticks held together.
- Keep scrambling and stir-frying the tofu over medium heat, until the texture resembles ground meat. Add 1 teaspoon of soy sauce and stir-fry quickly. Remove from the pan.
- Wipe out the pan, add some vegetable oil and heat up again. Add the eggplant and stir-fry over medium heat. When the eggplant is wilted and has started to brown, take it out.
- Heat up the pan again, add all the ☆ ingredients and stir-fry over medium heat. When it's fragrant add the carrot and continue stir-frying.
- When the carrot has wilted, re-add the cooked tofu and eggplant and stir-fry quickly. Add the combined ◆ ingredients and simmer over low heat for about 2 minutes.
- When the sauce has reduced a bit, add some katakuriko dissolved in water to thicken the sauce. Swirl in some sesame oil to finish.
- Transfer to serving plates, top with the green onions and it's done. If you like it more spicy, you can drizzle on some ra-yu spicy sesame oil.
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 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. Satisfyingly spicy and numbing, this Mapo Eggplant is perfect enjoyed over steamed rice.
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