Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu
Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu

Hello everybody, it’s me again, Dan, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I will show you a way to make a special dish, healthy mapo eggplant with tofu. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It is enjoyed by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. They are nice and they look fantastic. Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu is something that I have loved my entire life.

Drain off the excess moisture completely. Drain off the excess moisture completely. 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.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook healthy mapo eggplant with tofu using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you cook it.

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

I'll admit, mapo eggplant is not the prettiest dish out there but it is full of flavor and uses a classic mapo sauce that envelops the tender eggplant in a savory, spicy, and fragrant way. In a small bowl mixed the cornstarch and water. Pouring into the eggplant mixture, stir quickly, taste it and add the green onion. Then the spicy eggplant mapo tofu is ready to served along with steam rice or brown rice as your choice.

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.

Pouring into the eggplant mixture, stir quickly, taste it and add the green onion. Then the spicy eggplant mapo tofu is ready to served along with steam rice or brown rice as your choice. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu. Silky roasted eggplant is topped with a slightly spicy and garlicky bean sauce with ground pork, mushrooms and water chestnuts for an added crunch. Mapo Tofu is one of my favorite Szechuan dishes.

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