Fried eggplant & ground pork
Yield: 4 Servings
Ingredients:
- 225 g ground pork
- 2 c eggplant -- cut 1/2 inch : thick
- 1 ts minced garlic
- 1 TB chiles -- shredded
- 1 ts soybean condiment -- * see : note
- 1 TB fish sauce
- 1 TB soy sauce
- 1 ts sugar
- 1/2 ts sweet soy sauce
- 20 basil leaves
- 3 TB vegetable stock
- 2 TB olive oil
Instructions:
1. Blanch eggplant in boiling water for 30sec. Remove. 2. Heat oil and stir-fry garlic chili and soy condiment until fragrent. 3. Add pork and stir-fry until colour changes. 4. Add eggplant then sauces and suger. Stir to mix. 5. Finally add basil and stock and bring to boil. Serve immediately. * black-bean paste may also be used. Recipe By : Joe Sweeney (sweeney@asiaonline.net) From: Sweeney



