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My family's Mapo Eggplant. 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. Great recipe for My family's Mapo Eggplant.

Make sure to saute the ground pork until it has become crumbly. I adapted this recipe that I found in a. For the eggplant, cut in half and then further into quarters. You can cook My family's Mapo Eggplant using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of My family's Mapo Eggplant

1. Prepare 4 of Eggplant (slim Japanese type).
2. You need 200 grams of Ground pork.
3. You need 2 tbsp of Oil.
4. You need 1 of medium-sized thick stalk Japanese leek (the white part).
5. Prepare 1 clove of Garlic.
6. Prepare 1 piece of Ginger.
7. You need 3 tsp of Doubanjiang.
8. Prepare 1 tbsp of Tianmianjiang (Chinese sweet bean paste).
9. You need 2 tsp of ☆Oyster sauce.
10. Prepare 1 tbsp of ☆Soy sauce.
11. You need 1 tbsp of ☆Sugar.
12. Prepare 1 tsp of ☆Chicken soup stock granules.
13. You need 1 tbsp of ☆Sake.
14. Prepare 150 ml of ☆water.
15. You need 1 tbsp of Katakuriko (dissolved in 2 tablespoons water).
16. You need 1 of to 2 teaspoons Sesame oil.

Layer paper towels on a heat resistant bowl and put the eggplant. Pour vegetable oil in a pan and fry the ground pork well. A great mapo eggplant uses fresh ginger, garlic, and green onions as the aromatics that give it plenty of fragrance and flavor. You can skip one of them if you don't have them all, and simply increase the amount of the aromatics you do have.

My family's Mapo Eggplant instructions

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..
7. Extra Box.

Vegetarian & vegan adaptable Mapo Eggplant 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, which are added to stir-fried ground pork and seasonings. This easy-to-cook dish ranges in flavors from salty, sour, sweet to spicy. Mapo Eggplant A tasty mapo tofu style dish with the tofu replaced with tender and creamy eggplant. One of my favourite Chinese dishes has to be mapo tofu for its use of not only the chili heat and numbing Sichuan peppercorn combo but also for its use of another great Chinese ingredient, fermented black beans.