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

Hello everybody, it’s Brad, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, my family's mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

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