Sweet Chinese Eggplant Delight

Chinese eggplant — delicious, unusual, interesting! Chinese sweet eggplants are not a very familiar dish for our cuisine, nevertheless, Chinese motifs are gaining increasing recognition throughout the world, including in Russia. Sweet Chinese sauces in combination with vegetables, meat, poultry, and fish appeal to different categories of consumers. The proposed recipe is good both on its own and as a side dish for fried chicken and pork. Any meat or fish stewed in this sauce is delicious.
cook time: 20 min
Maya Lindell
Sweet Chinese Eggplant Delight

Nutrition Facts (per serving)

42
Calories
11g
Carbs
1g
Protein

Ingredients (2 portions)

Basic:

Garlic 1 clove
Water 120 ml
Ginger 5 g
Honey 0.5 tbsp
White wine vinegar 5 ml
bell pepper 1 pc
Eggplant 1 pc
Soy sauce 10 ml
Potato starch 0.5 tbsp

Recipe instructions

Step 1

Step 1
How to cook eggplant in Chinese? First, prepare everything you need. Take strong eggplants with whole skin. Bell pepper — juicy, sweet. I have it red, but you can take any color. Before slicing, wash vegetables with a brush in running water.

Step 2

Step 2
Cut the eggplants (I don’t peel them) into medium-sized cubes (about 1x1 cm).

Step 3

Step 3
Add salt to the eggplants, stir and let stand for a while. Then rinse under the tap and squeeze the water out of the eggplants.

Step 4

Step 4
Cut the sweet pepper into strips. Fry it in a frying pan with heated sunflower oil, stirring constantly and making sure not to overcook. As soon as a crust begins to appear, remove from heat.

Step 5

Step 5
Place the roasted peppers in a separate saucepan (I used tempered glass).

Step 6

Step 6
Grate the ginger root on a fine grater, you can take the squeezed juice, you can add the completely grated root, there are no special instructions for this dish specifically.

Step 7

Step 7
Fry the eggplants in the same pan with oil until the color changes. They should become soft. Stir while frying. Then add the fried eggplant to the peppers.

Step 8

Step 8
In the same frying pan where the peppers and eggplants were fried, prepare the sauce from the remaining ingredients: first fry the garlic chopped into petals, add ginger, soy sauce, honey, starch. Stir. At the end, dilute everything with water and boil for 2 minutes.

Step 9

Step 9
Pour the sauce into the roasted vegetables into a saucepan and simmer everything together over low heat for about 7 minutes, stirring.

Step 10

Step 10
Serve the Chinese sweet eggplant hot right away. Although they are also very good cold!

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