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My family's Mapo Eggplant Recipe

 ·  ☕ 3 min read  ·  ✍️ Bobby Brewer

My family's Mapo Eggplant
My family's Mapo Eggplant

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to make a distinctive dish, my family's mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

My family's Mapo Eggplant is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. My family's Mapo Eggplant is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look wonderful.

To get started with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook my family's mapo eggplant using 16 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make My family's Mapo Eggplant:
  1. Get 4 Eggplant (slim Japanese type)
  2. Make ready 200 grams Ground pork
  3. Make ready 2 tbsp Oil
  4. Take 1 medium-sized thick stalk Japanese leek (the white part)
  5. Get 1 clove Garlic
  6. Take 1 piece Ginger
  7. Prepare 3 tsp Doubanjiang
  8. Make ready 1 tbsp Tianmianjiang (Chinese sweet bean paste)
  9. Make ready 2 tsp ☆Oyster sauce
  10. Prepare 1 tbsp ☆Soy sauce
  11. Make ready 1 tbsp ☆Sugar
  12. Get 1 tsp ☆Chicken soup stock granules
  13. Get 1 tbsp ☆Sake
  14. Prepare 150 ml ☆water
  15. Get 1 tbsp Katakuriko (dissolved in 2 tablespoons water)
  16. Make ready 1 to 2 teaspoons Sesame oil
Instructions to make My family's Mapo Eggplant:
  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
  8. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

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