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Beef with Eggplant
📍 China
Beef stir-fried with eggplant in a fragrant, lightly spicy garlic sauce.
Silky eggplant and beef in a fragrant garlic sauce.
The ritual
Beef with Eggplant
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Silky eggplant
Eggplant is fried until velvety soft and sponge-like.
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Sear the beef
Thinly sliced beef is seared fast over high heat.
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Garlic sauce
Garlic, soy and a touch of chili make a deep, umami sauce.
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Bring it together
Everything is tossed together in the wok and finished with scallion.
A journey through time
Beef with Eggplant
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Eggplant from the East
Eggplant reached China via trade routes over a thousand years ago.
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The yúxiāng style
The fragrant garlic sauce is a hallmark of Sichuan home cooking.
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An everyday classic
A quick wok dish found on Chinese tables every day.
Good to know
A flavour sponge
Eggplant soaks up the sauce to become the richest bite on the plate.
“Fish-fragrant”, no fish
The yúxiāng style means “fish-fragrant”, though it contains no fish.
Fast fire
Cooked in minutes over the wok’s fierce heat.
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