Super Easy Chinese Eggplant in Garlic Sauce w/ Minced Meat 鱼香茄子 Braised Brinjal with Pork Recipe

Eggplant, also known as brinjal or aubergine, has a mild, tender, and slightly sweet flavour similar to summer squash or zucchini. When cooked, eggplant absorbs the flavour of whatever it is cooked with and becomes meltingly tender. While eggplant isn’t the healthiest vegetable, it is a good source of potassium, fibre, and antioxidants like vitamins A and C, which help protect cells from damage. Eggplant is also high in polyphenols, which are natural plant chemicals that help diabetics process sugar better. When buying eggplant, choose one that is firm with a smooth, shiny, and wrinkle-free surface. Eggplant can be kept in the refrigerator’s crisper drawer for about three days, but try to cook it as soon as possible. Keep the skin on when cooking eggplant to keep the flesh intact. Soaking the eggplant in saltwater prevents oxidation, extracts the bitterness, and keeps it from absorbing too much oil. When you combine minced meat and eggplant, you get a variety of textures that complement each other well. If you cannot eat pork, substitute minced chicken or beef. Hope you enjoy this dish. Happy cooking! See the ingredient list below for your easy reference. Hope you can recreate this yummy recipe in the comfort of your home. Happy cooking! Thanks for dropping by our channel. Please subscribe to stay tuned to our home cooking videos. Stalk us! Youtube: Facebook Instagram Website: Chat with us! info@ Thanks for watching! See you soon. ------------------ This video is brought to you by La Gourmet. You can get their products from Super Easy Braised Eggplant in Garlic Sauce w/ Minced Meat 鱼香茄子 Ingredients: Serves 4 pax ------- 320g eggplant (cut into chunks and soak them in saltwater for a few mins) 200g minced meat (we used pork but you can use chicken or beef) 1 thumb-sized chopped young ginger 5 cloves of chopped garlic 1 stalk of chopped spring onion (add the stem part first and only the green part at the end) 1 tablespoon spicy broad bean paste 辣豆瓣酱 1 tablespoon oyster sauce 1 tablespoon light soy sauce 1 tablespoon premium dark soy sauce 0.5 teaspoon sugar 80ml water 1 tablespoon black vinegar Some cornstarch solution === Don’t know where to get the ingredients or don’t know how they look like? See the links below. Spicy broad bean paste Oyster sauce Light soy sauce Dark soy sauce (we’ve never tried this brand before so you gotta trial and error until you find a good premium dark soy sauce. The one we use has a really nice consistency - it’s not too thick but not too watery. It’s also not too salty and has a slight tinge of sweetness. The main purpose of dark soy sauce is to give your dish a dark colour with a really nice caramel taste) Black vinegar Cornflour ---------- Residing in Singapore? Get the cooking tools that we used in our videos: ------------- Filming equipment: iPhone 13 Pro Max (Get from Amazon ) Microphone: Sennheiser AVX digital wireless microphone system Get it in Singapore: Get Sennheiser wireless microphone from Amazon: ----------------------------------- If you like this recipe, you might like these too: Super Easy Spicy Potatoes w/ Minced Meat 香辣土豆炒肉碎 Chinese Pork Stir Fry Recipe | Stir Fried Potatoes Super Easy Chinese Eggplant in Spicy Garlic Sauce 麻婆茄子 Mapo Brinjal Recipe (Aubergine) Super Tasty Quick Braised Meatballs in Oyster Sauce 红烧狮子头 Chinese Minced Pork Ball with Gravy Recipe ----------------------------------- Disclaimer: Spice N’ Pans is not related to these products and cannot guarantee the quality of the products in the links provided. Links are provided here for your convenience. We can only stand by the brands of the products we used in the video and we highly recommend you to buy them. Even then, preference can be subjective. Please buy at your own risk. Some of the links provided here may be affiliated. These links are important as they help to fund this channel so that we can continue to give you more recipes. Cheers!