Chinese Eggplants with Garlic Sauce

Hey friends, today we’re making a Chinese dish: eggplants with garlic sauce. This dish is popular in Sichuan. This version of the dish is shallow fried like you would typically get in a restaurant but there are steamed versions of this dish as well for people who are trying to be healthier. I use to not be a fan of eggplants because I thought they were slimy and mushy but that texture works really great with this sauce. This dish adds a lot of flavor to rice and is good eaten by itself as well.

Ingredients:
1) 2 eggplants
2) Cornstarch (enough to coat eggplants, ~3tbsp)
3) 2 green onions
4) 5 gloves garlic
5) 30g ginger
6) 3 Thai chili (optional)
7) Sauce: 100ml water, 1tbsp soy sauce, 1tbsp sugar, 1tbsp Shaoxing wine (optional), ½ tsp sesame oil
8) Cornstarch slurry (1tbsp cornstarch, 1 tbsp water, mixed)
9) Vegetable or corn oil

Instructions
1) Cut your eggplants into bite size pieces and coat in cornstarch to get thin even coating.
2) Mince finely chop green onion, garlic, ginger, and Thai chili (optional, can be left out or replaced with other chili/chili flakes)
3) Mix your sauce
4) Fill a hot pan/wok with oil and shallow fry your eggplants for about 3 minutes making sure all sides are fried.
5) Add more oil to a clean, hot pan/wok and add your green onion, garlic, ginger, thai chili. Stir fry for about a minute.
6) Add sauce to your pan and quick stir. Then add corn starch slurry to thicken up the sauce.
7) Add your fried eggplant and stir for another 30 seconds.
8) Plate and eat.

As always, please enjoy :)
- Mulberry Street
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Equipments (affiliated links):

Winco Chinese Cleaver (not the same one used in the video but closest I can find):

Zojirushi Rice Cooker:

Canon m50 (main camera)
Canon t7i (I occasionally borrow this from someone)

Sigma 30mm f1.4 efm (main lense)
Canon 50mm f.18
Viltrox efm adaptor (adapting 50mm to m50)

Movo VXR10 microphone
Geekoto horizontal tripod
Manfrotto Pixi tripod
ESDDI Softbox

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Credit:
🎵:
Final Reckoning - Asher Fulero
Pastoral - Asher Fulero
The Closing Of Summer - Asher Fulero
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vegan, gluten free

[prophet]

You have the best eggplant dish on the entire internet. I’ve tried other recipes and you are numero uno! No lie! I know cooking. Kudos to

[Peaceful]

Never liked egg plants at all before but your recipe made all my family fell in love with eggplants. Must try

[DooWopsU]

Magnificent one of my favorite side dish Well Done

[beal]

I’m the worst cooker of vegetables and even I could not screw this up. So good!

[ninobee]

I like all dishes with eggplants and this one recipe is like a jewel. Everyone around our dining table likes it. Quick and easy to cook. Thank you.

[MrCJ-qzdl]

Chinese eggplant is my *all-time* favorite Chinese dish. When l lived in China l ate this like l was a pig. When l was given a b'day party with Chinese food l ate and ate and ate till l thought l would get sick. Thank you for sharing this. I had eggplant this week. I will try your recipe next week.

[balllingen]

Simple, tasty dishes like this are my favourite. Thanks!

[LRon-efni]

Nice. I’ve been looking for this recipe, but with ingredients I actually have. Now here it is.

[jojolin]

The best way to make eggplants 🍆 and vegan!!! Everyone in the family love it even the one who doesn’t like eggplants at all!
big thank you for sharing

[rebeccafoster-faith]

ASMR. Watched on 1.75 speed and didn't miss anything. Going off to try and make now.

[MyMinnieAdventures]

Wow! That was so easy to make and has such an addictive taste. Thank you for the recipe! Coating it in the corn starch and frying it really helps the eggplant hold onto the sauce well. Awesome 🥰

[pearlgee]

This recipe looks really good and easy. Will surely give it a try. With hot white rice, yum!!! 😊👏

[parikumarparikumar]

I made it for lunch today! Thank you for this wonderful recipe, works on my vegetarian days too! Keep it comin’

[TastyTable]

It looks delicious! Thank you for your recipe sharing!

[TastyTable]

Looks very delicious! Thank you for your recipe sharing!

[jmpompey]

I am a brit, but I love Chinese food this was an amazing and easy to follow recipe. Just cooked this for my Chinese wife she said it was delicious.

[shaylalauren]

I liked this video before getting through it cause it had garlic in it. Very soothing. Thank you.

[shanka-]

I made this and it was absolutely delicious. I used a normal aubergine instead of the Chinese eggplant. Thank you for the recipe.

[kvuppal]

Ever since my return from China I've been looking for the recipe of the eggplant dish I ate there regularly in different restaurants. This one looks very promising!

[xaothao]

Tried this recipe tonight... and I can say... eggplants will not be wasted!