Recipe: Tasty Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu

Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu.

You can have Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu using 19 ingredients and 11 steps. Here is how you achieve that.

Ingredients of Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu

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

Healthy Mapo Eggplant with Tofu instructions

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..