Minced Pork and Eggplant: A classic and delicious home-style dish. Minced pork and eggplant is a very popular Chinese home-style dish. It features soft and flavorful eggplant as the main ingredient, paired with rich minced pork (usually ground pork), perfectly blended in a sauce. The characteristics of this dish are: 1. **Rich Texture:** The eggplant becomes oily and soft after cooking, melting in your mouth, while the minced pork provides a savory and textured flavor. 2. **Rich Flavor:** The savory sauce is the base, often enhanced with minced garlic, scallions, and ginger, sometimes with a hint of spiciness or sweetness, making it very appetizing. 3. **Super Appetizing with Rice:** The rich sauce coats the eggplant and minced pork, making it a perfect accompaniment to rice, making it irresistible. 4. **Easy to Make at Home:** The main ingredients, eggplant and minced pork, are very common, and the preparation is relatively simple, making it a frequent guest on family dinner tables. In short, **minced pork and eggplant is a classic, delicious, and appetizing home-style dish that perfectly combines the soft and tender eggplant with the savory aroma of minced pork in a rich sauce.**
Materials
Steps for making Supreme Minced Meat Eggplant
Cut the eggplant into cubes without peeling, add a small spoonful of salt, mix and marinate for 10 minutes. It will release water. After marinating, rinse with clean water and pat dry with kitchen paper.
Choose meat with a fat-to-lean ratio of about 1:3. Add a little cooking wine, soy sauce, a quarter teaspoon of salt, two drops of sesame oil, and a small spoonful of cooking oil according to your taste. Mix well and marinate for 10 minutes.
Next, add our green and red peppers, scallions, ginger, and garlic. If you like spicy food, you can add some bird's eye chilies; otherwise, you can leave them out.
Add a dried chili pepper and a handful of minced garlic to the pan and stir-fry the minced meat.
Once fully cooked, pour it out and set aside.
Without washing the pan, pour in a little more oil than usual, add 2 tablespoons of Pixian chili bean paste and minced garlic, stir-fry the chili bean paste until the oil turns red.
Pour in the prepared eggplant and stir-fry until the eggplant starts to absorb oil and change color, which takes about 1-2 minutes. Then add the minced meat from earlier.
Add minced meat and stir-fry for 30 seconds.
Pour in the remaining ingredients, except for the scallions, and stir-fry until the green and red peppers release their aroma. This process takes about 1 minute.
Once you smell the distinct aroma of green peppers, add 2 tablespoons of soybean paste, a little soy sauce, and a little cornstarch slurry to thicken the sauce. Note⚠️: Remember to taste the sauce in the pan first before adding soy sauce and soybean paste according to your preference.
Reduce the sauce, plate, and you're done!
What a delicious dish!
Tips for Supreme Minced Meat Eggplant
Because Pixian chili bean paste is quite salty, and salt is also used when marinating meat, and both soybean paste and soy sauce are salty, I don't add any salt at all. When making this dish for the first time, remember to taste it before adding soy sauce and soybean paste to check the saltiness. It's easy to make it too salty if you're not careful. You'll get the hang of it after making it once. Use high heat throughout the entire process. If you're a beginner, you can turn the heat down a bit to avoid being too hasty.
