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
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300g Chinese aubergine
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1 red sweet peppers*
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1 sweet green peppers
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salt to taste
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3 spring onion stalks
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4 garlic cloves
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1/4 cup cornstarch (and water blend)
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1/8 cup LKK light soy sauce
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1/2 tbsp LKK dark soy sauce
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1/2 tbsp Yeo's sesame oil
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15g Sugar
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1/3 cup vegetable oil
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1 tbsp LKK chilli bean sauce
Method
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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.
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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.
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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.)
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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.
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Add the flavoring sauce and stir to ensure the.
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Serve on a dish and add the other half of the minced garlic to garnish.
*Apologies, we do not sell this item
