Spicy Eggplant with Pork

Name: Spicy Eggplant with Pork (Mapo Nasu)
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Japanese
Ingredients: 3 cups hot cooked rice (see Gohan) for serving; Sesame oil (optional); ½ pound ground pork; 3 cloves garlic, minced; 6 green onions; 4 Japanese or Chinese eggplants, about 1 pound total weight; 1-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced; 6 tablespoons canola or other neutral oil; Mapo Dofu sauce

Mapo Nasu

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Let's Cook Japanese Food!

By Amy Kaneko

Published 2017

About

The cooking sauce for this dish is the same one I use for making Mapo Dofu. The fried eggplant is crispy and creamy at the same time, and when combined with the rich sauce, the resulting marriage is perfect over a bowl of rice.

Ingredients

Mapo Dofu sauce
6 green onions
3 cloves garlic, minced

Asia
Japan
Main course
Spicy

Method

Make the sauce.
Mince the white parts and tender green tops of 4 green onions. Mince the white parts of the remaining 2 green onions, then halve the tender green tops lengthwise and slice them crosswise into 1-inch-wide pieces. Place the minced green onions, garlic, and ginger in 3 separate bowls. Reserve the sliced green onion tops for garnish.
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