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- From: lnonn@soc.duke.edu (Lynn Nonnemaker)
- Subject: Chinese Eggplant
- Organization: Duke University, Durham, NC, USA
- Approved: mark@alexr.demon.co.uk
- Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 20:43:00 +0000
- Message-ID: <10251994204342um@alexr.demon.co.uk>
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- My favorite eggplant dish, learned in Beijing, called
- Fragrant Eggplant:
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- 1/4 lb. ground pork
- 1 Tbs. minced fresh ginger
- minced garlic (to taste)
- several green onions, finely chopped
- 1 Tbs sugar
- soy sauce
- rice vinegar
- 1 large eggplant
- 3 cloves garlic, peeled
- MSG (optional, I don't use)
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- To ground pork, add 1/2 ginger, garlic ( I use 3 cloves or so),
- 1/2 green onions, sugar, about 2 Tbs soy sauce, and 1 Tbs.
- rice vinegar. Also add MSG if you use it.
- Slice or shred eggplant. I like very fine pieces, like very thin
- cut french fries. Some people prefer ticker pieces.
- In hot peanut or veg oil, cook pork mixture until pork is browned.
- Add remaining ginger and green onions; stir one or twice. Add eggplant
- (it looks like a ton but it cooks down significantly; this is one dish
- where it is easy to overestimate the amount you are making). Add about
- another Tbs of soy sauce and same of vinegar (this is really about
- tase) and additional sugar and MSG if desired. Add whole cloves of
- garlic; cook for several minutes. For me it is done when the eggplant
- tastes cooked through. The actual time will depend on the thickness
- of the eggplant slices.
- Enjoy!
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- Lynn Nonnemaker
- lnonn@soc.duke.edu
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