Braised Aubergine

Recipe taken and adapted from:

http://myrecipemagic.com/recipe/recipedetail/chinese-food-recipe-braised-eggplant

For a meaty version, this goes very well with minced pork*.

Ingredients

• 300g Chinese aubergine

• 1 red sweet peppers*

• 1 sweet green peppers

• salt to taste

• 3 spring onion stalks

• 4 garlic cloves

• 1/4 cup cornstarch (and water blend) 

• 1/8 cup LKK light soy sauce

• 1/2 tbsp LKK dark soy sauce 

• 1/2 tbsp Yeo's sesame oil 

• 15g Sugar 

• 1/3 cup vegetable oil

• 1 tbsp LKK chilli bean sauce

Method

• Cut the aubergine into diamond shaped pieces. Remove the seeds of the sweet peppers and cut into pieces. Finely cut the green onions and the garlic.

• Mix the starch, the light soy sauce, the dark soy sauce, the sesame oil, the chilli bean sauce and the sugar into the flavoring sauce.

• Heat the oil in the frying pan. Fry the aubergine until it turns gold. Drain. (The remaining oil for frying can be reused after filtering.)

• Leave a little remaining oil in the pan and remove the rest. Sauté the spring onions and half of the minced garlic. Add the aubergine and peppers and sauté for half a minute. 

• Add the flavoring sauce and stir to ensure the.

• Serve on a dish and add the other half of the minced garlic to garnish.

*Apologies, we do not sell this item