This Indonesian eggplant will guarantee become your favorite eggplant dish.
The original recipe require frying the eggplant before adding the sauce, but my mom would grill the eggplant instead, it really does give the eggplant smokier flavor.
Ingredients:
15 Japanese eggplants (find the smallest one) cut in half (length wise)
oil for brushing the eggplants
- Preheat the grill. Brush each eggplant with oil and grill on both side until done. Set aside.
The Sauce:
3 shallots
3 cloves garlic
10-15 red Thai chiles (if you dare)
2 Balinese Black Pepper (sorry, there is no substitute for this. Or it will be completely become different dish/taste)
1 cup chopped tomato
1 tablespoon fish sauce, or 1/4 teaspoon shrimp paste
salt & pepper to taste
2 tbs canola oil
- In a large skillet over medium high heat, fry the shallots, garlic, Thai chiles and tomato with one tablespoon canola oil. Fry just until they are soft. Turn off the heat and let it cool a bit.
- Transfer the content to a food processor, add Balinese Pepper, and process until becoming a smooth sauce.
- Return the sauce to a large skillet or a wok, add 1 tablespoon canola oil and saute for a minute. Add the eggplants, stir once or twice just enough to mix the sauce and eggplants together. If you stir too much, the eggplants will break or turn into mush.
- Add fish sauce and pepper, taste to see if its need salt.
- Serve with plain steam Jasmine rice.
Note: for vegetarian version, omit the fish sauce! Don't forget to turn your exhaust, turn it high otherwise you'll end up sneezing and your eyes watering! It's that spicy!
7 comments:
Oh this looks amazing, must try, I love eggplant and spicy :)
Ooh, I dare! I dare! Ha ha ha. I love spicy food. And grilled eggplant is a good way to bring out plenty of flavor in what can usually taste bland and spongy. Looks delicious!
Eggplants are the best under-appreciated vegetable there is. I love them but not all my kids do. I'm going to have to try to make this and see if they go for it. Thanks Elra!
Grilled eggplant with a spicy tomato sauce sounds good!
Oh my goodness! This looks so good. I will definitely be making this in the next few days!
Yum - I did a spicy eggplant recipe last night - but this one looks even better!!
I want to thank you for posting this recipe. I used it and the result was delicious! I didn't have all the ingredients so instead of chilli's I used red capsicum, which was perfect because wife is not to fussed with chilli's. Also instead of diced tomato, I used diced Italian tomatoes in a tin. And lastly we had no Balinese black pepper so I used this Japanese pepper we had in the cupboard which was great.
Thank you very much for this!
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