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Simple Way to Cook Perfect Mabo Eggplant

By Easy Recipes 28 December 2019
Simple Way to Cook Perfect Mabo Eggplant
Simple Way to Cook Perfect Mabo Eggplant

Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day. Today I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, Mabo Eggplant. It is one of my favourite food recipe, this time i’am gonna make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Mabo Eggplant Recipe. 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.

You can have Mabo Eggplant using 15 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Mabo Eggplant

  1. You need 2 of medium to large Eggplants.
  2. Prepare of Oil.
  3. Make ready 250-300 g of Pork Mince.
  4. Make ready 1 clove of Garlic *finely chopped.
  5. Take 1 of small piece Ginger *finely chopped.
  6. Prepare 4 of Spring Onions *finely chopped.
  7. Prepare of <Sauce Ingredients>.
  8. You need 1 tablespoon of Dark Colour Miso.
  9. Prepare 1 tablespoon of Soy Sauce.
  10. Make ready 1 tablespoon of Sugar.
  11. It’s 1 tablespoon of Toban Djan (Chili Bean Sauce).
  12. Make ready 2 tablespoons of Sake.
  13. You need 1 cup of Chicken Stock (or Water 1 cup & Asian Chicken Bouillon Powder 1 teaspoon).
  14. Make ready 1 tablespoon of Sesame Oil.
  15. Make ready 1 tablespoon of Potato Starch.

Mabo Eggplant My Japanese style Mabo Dofu (Tofu) recipe is quite versatile and you can replace Tofu with vegetables such as eggplant.All eggplant lovers should try this dish!It is very easy to cook but you need patience to precook eggplant pieces until they are tender.If you are OK with the oil intake, you can deep fry the eggplant pieces.

Mabo Eggplant instructions

  1. Cut off the green bit of Eggplants and cut in half or quarter lengthways, then cut diagonally into small pieces OR cut into 1.5 to 2cm thick pieces..
  2. Heat 1 to 2 tablespoons of Oil in a frying pan and cook Eggplant pieces until tender. Repeat the process until all Eggplant pieces are cooked..
  3. Place all the sauce ingredients in a mixing bowl and mix well..
  4. Heat a frying pan or a wok, cook Pork Mince breaking up, add Garlic, Ginger and Spring Onions..
  5. Mix the sauce mixture again, then pour it in and bring to a boil and let it thicken..
  6. Add pre-cooked Eggplant and gently mix and combine..
  7. Serve with freshly cooked rice..

Mapo Tofu is one of my favorite Szechuan dishes.I thought I would use eggplant in place of tofu and the results were amazing!Full of flavor, mapo eggplant is richly savory, spicy, and fragrant, not to mention quick and easy for any night you want a hearty and healthy Chinese dish. Vegan-Adaptable One of my favorite dishes is mapo tofu, but I absolutely love making that same mapo sauce to go with eggplant for mapo eggplant.

My Japanese style 'Mabo Dofu' recipe is quite versatile and you can replace Tofu with vegetables such as eggplant.All eggplant lovers should try this dish!It is very easy to cook but you need patience to precook eggplant pieces until they are tender as crunchy eggplant is not very nice.If you are OK with the oil intake.Mapo Eggplant is similar to the classic Chinese-influenced mapo tofu dish, but using Asian eggplants instead.

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