Asian eggplant with garlic, honey and hot pepper

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 1 hr 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   Ingredients

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the eggplants thoroughly, peel them and cut them into two pieces lengthwise.

3. STEP 3

   

   Rub each piece with a mixture of sugar and salt and leave for a while.

4. STEP 4

   

   After a couple of hours, wash and dry the eggplants using a clean towel or cloth.

5. STEP 5

   

   Cut the garlic into thin slices. You need to cut the zest from the lemon.

6. STEP 6

   

   Take a container of a suitable size, pour in vegetable oil. When the oil is hot, add lemon zest and chopped garlic into it. Fry over medium heat for about five minutes until browned. Then remove the garlic and zest from the oil, and leave the oil to cool.

7. STEP 7

   

   Fry the prepared eggplants in a frying pan on both sides until a crust forms.

8. STEP 8

   

   Mix the cooled butter with sugar, honey, pepper and coriander.

9. STEP 9

   

   Heat the resulting mass over low heat until the consistency resembles caramel.

10. STEP 10

    

    Pour the caramel over the fried eggplant pieces and leave for several hours until it hardens completely.

11. STEP 11

    

    Eggplants prepared according to the recipe in sweet and sour sauce can be decorated with herbs and served.

Comments on the recipe

Anahit

05.09.2023

4.7

Being a lover of extreme cooking (and I put eggplant in sweet sauce in this category), I noticed the ease of preparing the dish. So, having cooked it, cooled it and tasted it, I was missing something in the taste, I decided to add half a lemon... Not right again. I added a glass of homemade adjika...and...yes, yes, I got something that satisfied me (I mean eggplants). Now I got eggplants in sweet and sour sauce. And this was already something (this is also the opinion of the family). But I want to say that in my opinion, you may really like the original recipe. So cook, try, fantasize, achieve your taste.

inna

05.09.2023

4.8

Thank you! I will try! Instead, I'll give you this recipe:

Shura

05.09.2023

4.9

Lady A prepared her eggplants for her kitchen, and Anahit, a lover of culinary delicacies, prepared them for her kitchen, and it turned out two wonderful, interesting recipes. Yesterday at the dacha I again covered the tomatoes in their own juice (probably the last ones in this quantity) and picked 4 eggplants, I thought I’d just fry them in slices, but no, I read your recipes and I wanted to combine sweet with spicy, and apparently I’ll do that))) I can’t pass up the new taste!

Anahit

05.09.2023

4.5

Shura, I... adore you. It’s a shame that such a kind, open soul isn’t around.

Anahit

05.09.2023

4.6

Yes, Shura, the eggplants need to be well fried, as they are then simply poured with caramel and are not stewed

Shura

05.09.2023

4.6

Thank you, Anaitochka! I miss you! And I cooked the eggplants, fried them thoroughly, as you advised (they turned out so beautiful), added a lot of garlic to the pureed tomatoes (I’m a fan of it, like that Jew), melted honey in a frying pan with butter - it worked liquid caramel, poured it over the eggplants, now I’m waiting for them to soak and cool. I made a little - one portion, they looked so shiny, beautiful, like a new car, and the rest I just fried and coated with garlic, herbs and sour cream. I'll show you what happened now.

Shura

05.09.2023

5

Girls, I continue, I prepared dinner, served eggplants in honey caramel and lo and behold, mine liked them more than the plain ones with garlic, so I approve and advise everyone to cook them according to this recipe, you won’t regret it! Happy Apple Savior to all!