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To get started with this recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can have our family's mapo eggplant recipe using 18 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Our Family's Mapo Eggplant Recipe:

1. Make ready 100 grams Ground pork
2. Take 1 tbsp Vegetable oil
3. Get 1 clove's worth Finely chopped ginger
4. Make ready 1 clove's worth Finely chopped garlic
5. Get 1 tsp Doubanjiang
6. Make ready 1 tsp Tianmianjiang
7. Prepare 2 tbsp or more Chopped Japanese leek
8. Make ready 4 to 5 Japanese eggplant
9. Take 200 ml ● Water
10. Take 2 tsp ● Chicken stock granules
11. Make ready 1 tbsp ● Sake
12. Get 1 tsp ● Sugar
13. Make ready 1 1/2 tbsp ● Soy sauce
14. Prepare 1 dash Pepper
15. Get 2 tsp ★ Katakuriko
16. Take 3 tsp ★ Water
17. Take 1 tbsp Sesame oil
18. Get 1 dash, (to taste) Young green scallion (for color)

Instructions to make Our Family's Mapo Eggplant Recipe:

1. For the eggplant, cut in half and then further into quarters. Layer paper towels on a heat resistant bowl and put the eggplant. Loosely cover with plastic wrap and microwave for 7 minutes at 500 W.
2. Pour vegetable oil in a pan and fry the ground pork well. (Fry it until the grease becomes transparent.)
3. Add ginger, garlic, doubajiang, tianmianjiang and Japanese leek then fry (the spicy bean paste burns easily so reduce the heat to medium).
4. Add the eggplant from Step 1, the ● ingredients (mix together first before adding), pepper and cook for about 5 minutes.
5. Add the mixed ★ ingredients a little at a time to thicken the sauce. Cook over high heat for a little while. Pour sesame oil around the edge of the pan.
6. Dish it up in a plate and sprinkle with chopped young scallions.

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