Mabo Nasu Donburi
Stir fries are one of the popular Chinese dishes in the UK as well as in Japan and presumably, in China, with the much hotter version with much chilli, I guess.
What I introduce today is that the stir fry with thick strong hot chili seasonings and I believe a lot of people who like Western dishes would also like.
Ingredients of Mabo Nasu for Serves 2 to 3:
- Half large Aubergine, thinly sliced and soak in water
- Half large red pepper, thinly sliced
- A couple of garlic cloves, finely chopped
- 3cm of ginger, finely chopped
- 2 spring onions – preferably white part, finely chopped
- 200 to 300g of pork for stir fry or minced
- ◆1 table spoon of Tenmenjan sweet bean sauce
- ◆1 table spoon of Tobanjan Chinese chili black bean sauce
- ◆1 table spoon of sake
- ◆1 table spoon of oyster sauce
- ◆1 table spoon of sugar
- ◆1 table spoon of soy sauce
- ◆150cc of chicken or pork stock
- ◆1 tea spoon of vinegar
- 1 table spoon of potato starch – mix well with 1 table spoon of water
- 1 cm depth of oil in frying pan
- a little sesame oil for last sprinkle flavour
Ingredients of Mabo Nasu
As I only had growing spring onions from the kitchen garden, I used green part this time. However, if you can find white spring onions called Shiro-Negi which appear like leeks with spicy taste, better for this kind of recipe.
It is a bit a shame that we can find those in the UK, but as other seasonings have strong taste, there should not be much problem.
Ginger, Garlic, Spring Onion Fried
1. Aubergine are drained and wipe excess water, then fry in shallow pan in medium heat.
Fried Aubergine and ◆ Mixed Seasonings
2. With the oil left over from the shallow fry used in 1, fry ginger, garlic, spring onions, then add pork and continue to cook in medium heat to make golden brown burning colour on the meat.
Pork Stir Fry, Red Pepper Fried
3. Mix the above ingredients marked with ◆. Once the meat has nice burning colour, add red pepper and saute in medium heat for 1 to 2 minutes and add fried aubergine.
Mabo Nasu Cooked
4. pour the seasoning mixture ◆ and stirred potato starch water and stir the frying pan continuously for a couple of minutes in medium heat.
Japanese Steamed Rice
5. Continue to cook in low heat and pour a sprinkle of sesame oil and mix lightly, then serve on plates.
I steamed Japanese rice and put the Mabo Nasu on the rice this time. It is easy option for people who are not used to eat white plain Japanese rice separately. Quite a lot of people will like this hot Asian dish.
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