Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, everyone's favorite mapo eggplant. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s easy, it is quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions daily. They are fine and they look wonderful. Everyone's Favorite Mapo Eggplant is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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