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[misora]

Stir-fried pork and eggplant, thai-style.



3/4 lb ground pork
2 Japanese eggplants
4 green onions
2 cloves garlic, minced
10 or more leaves of fresh basil

Sauce:

• 2 tbspn fish sauce (I used oyster sauce, and it was fine.)


• 1 tbspn soy sauce


• 1 tbspn lime juice


• 3 tbspn water


• 1 tspn cornstarch


• dab of spicy chili paste

Whisk together the sauce ingredients, and set aside.

In a pan, heat 2 tbspn peanut oil (with a dash of sesame oil) and cook the garlic briefly. Add the minced pork, and brown for about 5-7 minutes. Add pinch of grated ginger and generous splash of sherry, and reduce 2 minutes at high heat. Remove pork and set aside.

Chop the eggplant coarsely (but in small pieces), and dice green onions. Cook in 2tbspn peanut oil until soft, 5-6 minutes. Add pork back, add sauce into mixture and cook until thickened, about 3 minutes. Stir in basil leaves, and serve over rice. Serves 4.



J really liked this one. First time I've cooked eggplant, and first time I've tried a more Thai-flavored style of sauce. I think next I'm going to be experimenting with coconut milk and trying a chicken and mango Coconut Satay. :p

Comments

[infinitygoddess.livejournal.com]

Goddess...that just makes my mouth water (minus the green onions, though...they do funny things to me). :O

I miss real food... *sigh*

[misora.livejournal.com]

You could substitute something else for the green onions, without losing flavor...something like finely-sliced bell pepper or sliced bamboo shoots or something. :)

[infinitygoddess.livejournal.com]

Cool. :) I love peppers...

[qiushuwen.livejournal.com]

Yum! I LOVE eggplant!

[misora.livejournal.com]

I've started to love it, too. We never ate it when I was a kid, and after having so many delicious Thai stir-fry dishes with eggplant in them, I wanted to try making it myself. :p

[alexb49.livejournal.com]

Eggplant always seems to soak up too much oil for my liking. Even in stir fry.

I love sticky rice both white and purple. For dessert I started making mango sticky rice which has been awesome. Super easy to make.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Really? It softens a lot during cooking, but I never thought it was more oily than the other ingredients in the dish.

I have to try to make white/purple/black sticky rice, next. With coconut milk. Mmmm.

[alexb49.livejournal.com]

It seems to suck it up like a sponge in my hands at least.

If you have a steamer, the modern ones take all the guess work out of rice. Plunk it in and let the thing take care of it all. The coconut milk you simmer with a little brown sugar then let it soak into the cooked rice a bit after. Needs a good ripe mango or some peaches on top.

[misora.livejournal.com]

Yeah, we eat rice quite a bit so I don't know what I'd do anymore without our rice cooker.

Mmmm, sweet rice. That and rice pudding are two things I have to make next.

[lynny17.livejournal.com]

I love new recipes! I'm going to try this one. Never really experimented with eggplant before (my mom used to just bake them and eat them that way and it never looked very appealing) but this one sounds good. Thanks!

[misora.livejournal.com]

Like I said above I never ate it as a kid, and my b/f has cooked eggplant before in a roasted-mixed-veggies dish in the oven, but I've never tried cooking it in a dish other than that. I was pleasantly surprised with this one (and how easy/quick it was to make). :)

[singingaway.livejournal.com]

Wow, that picture doesn't look very appealing to me but I bet it is much better than it looks. LOL Then again I'm not that big on pork.

[misora.livejournal.com]

It looks great to me, but I'm biased. ;) Plus we're big pork eaters. My b/f is Chinese and he has to have pork in at least one meal everyday. XD

[disqollama.livejournal.com]

Oooh sounds delicious! I think I will try this recipe...minus the peanut oil, that would kill me.

Coconut is very good with various dishes. I experimented with a beef coconut stew a while back and it was very good actually.