Easiest Way to Prepare Homemade My family's Mapo Eggplant

Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a distinctive dish, my family's mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

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

The ingredients needed to make My family's Mapo Eggplant:

1. Make ready Eggplant (slim Japanese type)
2. Prepare Ground pork
3. Prepare Oil
4. Prepare medium-sized thick stalk Japanese leek (the white part)
5. Prepare Garlic
6. Prepare Ginger
7. Get Doubanjiang
8. Take Tianmianjiang (Chinese sweet bean paste)
9. Prepare ☆Oyster sauce
10. Take ☆Soy sauce
11. Get ☆Sugar
12. Get ☆Chicken soup stock granules
13. Make ready ☆Sake
14. Get ☆water
15. Prepare Katakuriko (dissolved in 2 tablespoons water)
16. Take 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.
7. Extra Box

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