Hey everyone, it is Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, healthy mapo eggplant with tofu. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Make a trip to the Asian market and make one of your favorite Chinese food dishes at home! I've been cooking a lot and trying new things and Mapo Tofu is one of our favorite Chinese food dishes. It's the dish that we always order when we go out and the spicier, the better. 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 It may remind you of Mapo Tofu, one of the most popular Sichuanese classics.

Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu is one of the most favored of recent trending meals on earth. It’s enjoyed by millions every day. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. They are nice and they look wonderful. Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have healthy mapo eggplant with tofu using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu:

1. Prepare 3 Eggplants
2. Make ready 1/3 Carrot
3. Get 1/2 block Firm tofu
4. Take 1/3 ☆ Japanese leek
5. Get 1 piece ☆ Ginger
6. Make ready 1 clove ☆ Garlic
7. Make ready 1 to 2 teaspoons ☆ Doubanjiang
8. Prepare 1 dash ☆ Sansho pepper powder (or sansho peppercorns)
9. Prepare 1 tsp ◆ Chicken soup stock granules
10. Get 1 tbsp ◆ Sake
11. Prepare 1 tbsp ◆Tian mian jiang (Chinese sweet bean paste)
12. Make ready 1 tbsp ◆ Soy sauce
13. Make ready 1 tsp ◆ Oyster sauce
14. Make ready 200 ml ◆ Boiling water
15. Make ready 1 tbsp + more to finish Sesame oil
16. Take 2 tbsp Vegetable oil
17. Take 1 tsp Soy sauce
18. Prepare 1 Katakuriko slurry
19. Make ready 1 Green onions (to finish)

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. Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries. At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator.

Instructions to make Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu:

1. Wrap the tofu in paper towels, put on a heatproof dish and microwave for 2 minutes. Drain off the excess moisture completely.
2. Cut the eggplant lengthwise into 4 to 8 slices. Soak the slices in water for about 5 minutes then drain well, and pat dry well with paper towels.
3. Finely chop the leek, ginger and garlic. Thinly slice the green onion you'll be using as topping too.
4. Cut the carrot in half lengthwise, then slice thinly diagonally. Combine the ◆ ingredients together.
5. Heat up 1 tablespoon of sesame oil in a wok or frying pan. Add the well drained tofu, and scramble with several cooking chopsticks held together.
6. Keep scrambling and stir-frying the tofu over medium heat, until the texture resembles ground meat. Add 1 teaspoon of soy sauce and stir-fry quickly. Remove from the pan.
7. Wipe out the pan, add some vegetable oil and heat up again. Add the eggplant and stir-fry over medium heat. When the eggplant is wilted and has started to brown, take it out.
8. Heat up the pan again, add all the ☆ ingredients and stir-fry over medium heat. When it's fragrant add the carrot and continue stir-frying.
9. When the carrot has wilted, re-add the cooked tofu and eggplant and stir-fry quickly. Add the combined ◆ ingredients and simmer over low heat for about 2 minutes.
10. When the sauce has reduced a bit, add some katakuriko dissolved in water to thicken the sauce. Swirl in some sesame oil to finish.
11. Transfer to serving plates, top with the green onions and it's done. If you like it more spicy, you can drizzle on some ra-yu spicy sesame oil.
12. Ready to serve and ENJOY!

Mapo tofu is one of the top ten famous Chinese dishes and enjoys a high popularity among not only Chinese people but also many western countries. At the very beginning, Mapo tofu is named after its creator. It is recorded that there is a couple who own a restaurant mainly selling vegetarian dishes. If you love mapo tofu, get ready for something just as delicious. A little spicy, savoury and fragrant, Mapo Eggplant is a quick and easy recipe for any night if you want a hearty and healthy Chinese dish.

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