Sweet and Spicy Eggplant

Sweet and Spicy Eggplant is a very savory dish made by sauteing eggplants, onions, garlic, oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, ketchup, black pepper, some red chillies, and green onions as a final touch. This eggplant dish is great as a side dish or a main dish to be topped over rice or noodles. Quick and simple but absolutely flavorful, this dish will surely awaken your senses, especially if you decide to add a bit more chili into it.

Sweet and Spicy Eggplant Recipe :

Ingredients

• ½ kilo eggplant ( sliced  2 inches long )
• 1 medium onion ( minced )
• 4 cloves garlic ( minced )
• 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 1 & ½ tablespoons sugar
• 2 tablespoons ketchup
• Black pepper to taste
• Red chillies
• Oil for frying
• Green onions for garnish ( optional )

Steps:

1. Heat some oil in a pan, place in the eggplants, fry and flip until golden brown. Cook these in batches. Set aside.
2. Remove some of the oil and saute onions till soft, then garlic till aromatic. Mix in oyster sauce, soy sauce, sugar, ketchup, and black pepper to taste. Add red chillies for some spice.
3. Once the sauce thickens, add back the eggplants and mix till everything is coated in the sauce. Garnish with some green onions before serving.

How to cook this Sweet and Spicy Eggplant Recipe

This dish, sometimes called “Sweet and Spicy Braised Eggplant” is a dish that highlights the tender and silky texture of the eggplants, and the savory, spicy and slightly flavors of the sauce. To create this Yummy dish start by removing the ends of the eggplant and slicing these into 2 inch vertical strips. Set this aside  while you heat some oil in a pan, frying the eggplants till they’ve browned on all sides. Cook these in batches to make it easier to flip, set these aside on a strainer after to remove any excess oil. After, remove some of the oil and saute the aromatics-onions till soft, and garlic till aromatic, mixing in oyster sauce for a silky texture and umami taste, soy sauce for color ad savory flavor, ketchup for added color slight acidity, black pepper to taste adding some red chillies if you’d like. Adjust the spice level by removing or adding more chillies, or replace these with your choice of hot sauce. Mix everything well till it thickens slightly before adding back the eggplants. Toss these around till everything is coated in the sauce. Giving them a beautiful glaze. Garnish these with some chopped spring onions for a pop of color and liven the dish up a bit.

An aromatic, flavorful and colorful dish. Some serve this as an appetizer, a beer pairing, over rice or noodles into a whole meal, or as a base to add ground pork or beef to make it into an even fuller meal.

Questions ?

• Additional ingredients
  • Add a bit more ‘meat’ into the dish but in a vegan or vegetarian style. Use tofu and make a “Sweet and Spicy Eggplant Tofu” dish.
  • Add meats like ground chicken, beef or pork with the aromatics, making sure these have changed in color before adding the sauce. Ground meat is a great option for a quick meal instead of bigger chunks that might need simmering for longer to tenderize.
  • For a hot and spicy eggplant recipe without the chillies, add in 2 – 3 teaspoons of your favorite hot sauce, sriracha, pepper paste or gochujang, chili flakes, chili sauce, or more.

• Different eggplant recipes
  • Try out a Sweet Spicy Chinese Eggplant recipe; this Chinese Sweet and Spicy Eggplant is similarly cooked as this Yummy Kitchen’s version, but coats the eggplants in cornstarch to make them crispy, and the base sauce has a mix of ginger, rice vinegar, Shaoxing cooking wine, thickened with cornstarch, and uses chili flakes instead or red sili.
  • Thai Sweet and Spicy Eggplant Recipe; for these there are added vegetables such as bell peppers or and basil leaves, the sauce has an extra dash of white vinegar, and uses red pepper flakes as its spice.

Other Yummy Eggplant Recipes!

• Eggplant Patties
• Eggplant Fries
• Eggplant Rolls ( a savory fun snack, made with chicken )
• Eggplant Stir-fry with Ground Pork
• Crispy Eggplant
• Binagoongan Tokwa at Talong ( Tofu and Eggplant sauteed in shrimp paste )
• Eggplant Circles ( eggplant filled with vegetables and meat in the middle )

Sweet and Spicy Eggplant Resipi: (Tagalog version)

Mga Sangkap :

• ½ kilo talong ( hiniwa ng 2 pulgadang haba )
• 1 sibuyas ( tinadtad )
• 4 butil ng bawang ( tinadtad )
• 1 kutsarang oyster sauce
• 1 kutsarang soy sauce
• 1 at ½ kutsarang asukal
• 2 kutsarang ketchup
• Paminta panlasa
• Pulang sili
• Mantika pang prito
• Dahon ng sibuyas pang dekorasyon ( opsyonal )

Paano Lutuin :

1. Maginit ng mantika sa kawali, ilagay ang mga talong, baliktarin at iprito hanggang mag kulay golden. Lutuin ng mag batch. Itabi.
2. Tanggalin ang kaunting mantika bago lutuin ang mga sibuyas hanggang lumambot bago ihalo ang bawang at lutuin ang mga ito hanggang bumango. Haluan ng oyster sauce, soy sauce asukal, ketchup, at paminta. Haluan ng pulang sili kung gusto mong mas maanghang ang mga ito.
3. Pag makapal na ang sarsa, ibalik ang mga talong at haluin ng mabuti. Dekorasyonan ng dahon ng sibuyas bago ihanda.