Recipe of Favorite Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, spicy eggplant mapo tofu (un-stir fried eggplant and tofu). One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

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. Pouring into the eggplant mixture, stir quickly, taste it and add the green onion.

Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu) is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu) is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

To begin with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can cook spicy eggplant mapo tofu (un-stir fried eggplant and tofu) using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu):

1. Make ready 1 eggplant wash and dry pat then diced into 1-2” cubes
2. Make ready 1/2 of silky tofu diced into small cubes
3. Make ready Chopped/sliced green onion
4. Prepare Minced garlic (3 cloves garlics)
5. Take Grated fresh ginger (1 tsp)
6. Make ready 1 dates soaked in 1/4 cup water (you can substitute with sugar)
7. Make ready 2 tsp Gochujang (fermented red pepper paste) you can get it in any Asian store. (Less or more)
8. Take Mushrooms powder
9. Make ready Soy sauces
10. Prepare 1 tsp cornstarch (less or more)
11. Prepare 1/2 tsp cayenne pepper (optional)
12. Prepare Water

Here is how you can achieve that. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the famous Szechuan Mapo Tofu. This adaptation is less spicy but does not lack in flavor. The delectable spicy black bean sauce includes ground pork, diced mushroom, and water chestnuts for an added crunch.

Steps to make Spicy Eggplant Mapo Tofu (un-stir fried Eggplant and Tofu):

1. Using your skillet over medium high heat, roasted the eggplants until turning brown. Set aside.
2. Meanwhile microwave the dates in 40 seconds. Smashed it and strained it.
3. Still using the skillet add the dates liquid, garlics, ginger, mushrooms powder,gochujang paste, cayenne pepper, and soy sauce. Add more water, mixed well then add the tofu.
4. Cover with the lid, and let it boiled.
5. When the tofu mixture boiled add the eggplant, mixed well. Put in a simmer until the eggplant is cooked and tender.
6. In a small bowl mixed the cornstarch and water. Pouring into the eggplant mixture, stir quickly, taste it and add the green onion. Turn off the heat.
7. Then the spicy eggplant mapo tofu is ready to served along with steam rice or brown rice as your choice. Enjoy 😊
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This adaptation is less spicy but does not lack in flavor. The delectable spicy black bean sauce includes ground pork, diced mushroom, and water chestnuts for an added crunch. Mapo Eggplant is a spin on the Szechuan classic Mapo Tofu. We usually eat our Mapo Tofu with some kind of beef, but it's summer and eggplant is in season. I actually used a combination of both regular eggplant and Chinese eggplant after picking both up at the Asian market.

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