Hey everyone, hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most popular of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look fantastic. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something that I have loved my entire life.

To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook everyone's favorite mapo eggplant using 16 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant:

1. Prepare 5 Eggplants (slim Japanese type)
2. Make ready 200 grams Ground meat (beef, pork or a mix)
3. Get 1 tbsp plus Doubanjiang
4. Make ready 2 clove Garlic
5. Make ready 1 the same amount as the garlic Ginger
6. Make ready 2 stalks Japanese leeks
7. Get 1 Vegetable oil
8. Get 1 Sesame oil
9. Prepare 2 tbsp Katakuriko
10. Prepare 1 Sansho pepper or Sichuan pepper
11. Take Mixed Seasoning Ingredients:
12. Get 3 tbsp Tianmianjiang - Chinese sweet bean paste
13. Make ready 2 tbsp Soy sauce
14. Prepare 1/2 cup - 100 ml Japanese sake
15. Make ready 200 ml Chinese soup stock (using 1 1/2 tablespoons of chicken soup stock granules)
16. Make ready 2 tsp Sugar

Instructions to make Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant:

1. Make the ★ mixed seasoning ingredients. (Just combine them together.)
2. Roughly chop the eggplants into pieces, and stir-fry in sesame oil, then transfer to a plate.
3. Mince the garlic, ginger, and Japanese leek (1/2 stalk), and briefly stir-fry in a generous amount of oil.
4. Add the doubanjiang and continue stir-frying (Very thoroughly!). If you don't have enough oil, add more.
5. Add ground meat and continue stir-frying.
6. Add all the mixed flavouring ingredients at once and bring to a boil.
7. Add stir-fried eggplants and simmer for 2-3 minutes while stirring occasionally.
8. Add sesame oil, and remaining chopped Japanese leeks, and briefly stir.
9. Turn off the heat, and thicken the sauce with katakuriko dissolved in water.
10. Serve onto a plate and it's done! Sprinkle sansho pepper or sichuan pepper to your liking.
11. Please try my original Mapo Tofu recipe!

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