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Eggplant and Green Bean Stir-Fry

豆角炒茄子

Eggplant and fully cooked green beans are tossed with garlic, fresh chiles and a thickened soy sauce.

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Purple eggplant strips and green beans in a glossy sauce.
Eggplant and Green Bean Stir-Fry
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Ingredients

Quantities are included where specified in the original recipe.

  • 250 ggreen beans
  • 300 geggplant
  • garlic
  • 2bird's eye chiles
  • 1 spoonfullight soy sauce
  • 1 spoonfuloyster sauce
  • 1/2 small spoonfulsugar
  • a littlesalt
  • slightly less than half a bowlstarch slurry
  • as neededcooking oil

Spoonfuls retain the Chinese recipe measures 勺/匙. Small and large spoonfuls retain 小勺 and 大勺; their volume is unspecified and is not converted to teaspoons or tablespoons.

Bowl and cup measures retain the original Chinese units 碗/杯; capacity is unspecified. 小半 means slightly less than half; 大半 means slightly more than half.

Ingredient Notes

  • The source stresses cooking the beans fully and leaving a little sauce for serving.

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 01

    Cut beans into short sections, eggplant into strips and mince the garlic and chiles. The source optionally soaks the cut eggplant briefly in water.

  2. 02

    Blanch the beans until cooked, then drain.

  3. 03

    Heat oil and stir-fry eggplant until soft and glossy, then remove.

  4. 04

    Fry garlic and chiles in the remaining oil over low heat until fragrant.

  5. 05

    Return beans and eggplant. Add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and a little salt and quickly toss.

  6. 06

    Add the starch slurry and cook until the sauce thickens and coats the vegetables.

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Eggplant and Green Bean Stir-Fry

Eggplant and fully cooked green beans are tossed with garlic, fresh chiles and a thickened soy sauce.

Ingredients

  • 250 ggreen beans
  • 300 geggplant
  • garlic
  • 2bird's eye chiles
  • 1 spoonfullight soy sauce
  • 1 spoonfuloyster sauce
  • 1/2 small spoonfulsugar
  • a littlesalt
  • slightly less than half a bowlstarch slurry
  • as neededcooking oil

Spoonfuls retain the Chinese recipe measures 勺/匙. Small and large spoonfuls retain 小勺 and 大勺; their volume is unspecified and is not converted to teaspoons or tablespoons.

Bowl and cup measures retain the original Chinese units 碗/杯; capacity is unspecified. 小半 means slightly less than half; 大半 means slightly more than half.

Method

  1. 01

    Cut beans into short sections, eggplant into strips and mince the garlic and chiles. The source optionally soaks the cut eggplant briefly in water.

  2. 02

    Blanch the beans until cooked, then drain.

  3. 03

    Heat oil and stir-fry eggplant until soft and glossy, then remove.

  4. 04

    Fry garlic and chiles in the remaining oil over low heat until fragrant.

  5. 05

    Return beans and eggplant. Add light soy sauce, oyster sauce, sugar and a little salt and quickly toss.

  6. 06

    Add the starch slurry and cook until the sauce thickens and coats the vegetables.