Easy Eggplant Recipe

FS is all about easy, cheap comforts when it comes to food. Case in point: trung kho, which got even easier since the last time FS posted about it. Today, FS devotes a post to eggplant.

FS loves eggplant. FS has not met anyone else who loves eggplant as FS does. FS's mother developed this recipe with FS in mind just as FS developed the rum and raisin ice cream with FS's mother in mind. Such is the love between FS and her mother!

This is a supremely easy recipe requiring only a few ingredients and only a few steps.

Steamed and Broiled Egplant with Soy Sauce and Sesame Oil
3 eggplants
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp sesame oil
1 tbsp pepper (optional, perhaps only a dash for your taste, but FS likes this dish spicy)
1/2 to 1 tsp sugar (depends on flavor presence)

Eighth or sixteenth the eggplants into short strips.

From the back to front: two fourths, two eights, four sixteenths.

Place in steamer container.

Place in a plastic or glass covered container to steam. Microwave it. For FS, FS steamed each eggplant for 3 minutes since FS's container is small. 

A leftover plastic container from to-go order from the Chinese restaurant across the street = perfect steamer.

3 minutes per eggplant.

Meanwhile, mix the soy sauce and sesame oil and sugar in a medium-size bowl.

Take out steamed eggplant and drench and roll strip by strip in the mixture above to coat and then lay across aluminum foil.

All of the sliced eggplant: two different sizes for eating variation (maybe with rice or maybe with toast).

Close up of eggplant now covered in sauce.

Do this to all the eggplant strips. Place eggplant onto the top rack of the oven.

Then broil for 10-20 minutes depending on how crisp and well caramelized you want the strips to be. FS broiled hers for 18 minutes.

Serve with rice or on toast.

In reality, this could be flavored however you like. Sometimes FS and her family will do olive oil and salt and pepper.

And, of course, store in your rescued plastic: