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Thai Stir-Fried Eggplant

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Thai Eggplant (Photo by preetamrai/flickr)

Get the recipe to this delicious Thai-style eggplant dish.

Serves 4 as an accompaniment to steamed rice and other dishes.

Ingredients

300 g/10 oz slender eggplants (aubergines)
4 tablespoons oil
1 tablespoon Thai pepper-coriander paste
2 tablespoons fish sauce
1 teaspoon palm sugar or brown sugar
1 tablespoon lime juice
1 fresh red chilli, sliced

Directions

Wash and dry the eggplants and cut into small dice. Heat oil and fry the pepper- coriander paste, stirring, until fragrant. Add the diced eggplant and fry until golden brown. Stir in fish sauce, sugar and lime juice and remove from heat. Serve sprinkled with chilli slices.


Recipe excerpted from Encyclopedia of Asian Food by Charmaine Solomon (Periplus Editions, 1998)

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