Eggplant fried in starch in soy sauce marinade

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the ingredients. Take eggplants fresh, ground, preferably a new crop - such fruits are usually small in size and have a matte skin.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the eggplants, cut off the peduncle and cut into medium-sized pieces in any way. I had small eggplants and I cut them into half circles. Previously, eggplants were soaked in salt water to eliminate bitterness. Now the current varieties of this vegetable do not need soaking, because they do not have bitterness.

3. Step 3:

   

   Sprinkle the eggplant with 3 tablespoons of starch. Thanks to this, they will turn out crispy and will not absorb excess oil. Starch can be any: both corn and potato.

4. Step 4:

   

   Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan: it can be any vegetable, but since we will fry on it, the oil must necessarily be refined. Add the eggplant.

5. Step 5:

   

   Fry the eggplants until crispy on all sides, stirring occasionally. Then remove the eggplants from the pan.

6. Step 6:

   

   Peel the onion and one clove of garlic and cut into cubes.

7. Step 7:

   

   Add to the same pan and fry until golden brown, about 5 minutes.

8. Step 8:

   

   Remove the seeds from the sweet pepper and cut into strips, it is better to leave the chili pepper whole so as not to let the chili pepper seeds out - then the dish will turn out not so sharp.

9. Step 9:

   

   Add both peppers to the pan and fry everything together for another 5 minutes.

11. Step 10:

    

    Return the eggplants to the pan and mix everything together.

12. Step 11:

    

    Meanwhile, prepare the marinade. Add honey to the soy sauce. Take soy sauce of natural fermentation, and honey of liquid varieties is desirable.

13. Step 12:

    

    Pour in the remaining starch.

14. Step 13:

    

    Add chopped garlic. I put it through the press, but you can grate the garlic on a fine grater or chop it with a knife.

15. Step 14:

    

    Mix the marinade until smooth, so that there are no lumps from starch.

16. Step 15:

    

    Pour the finished marinade into the pan.

17. Step 16:

    

    Wash and chop the cilantro. Add to the pan, mix everything together.

18. Step 17:

    

    Sprinkle the finished dish with sesame seeds.

19. Step 18:

    

    Serve immediately. Bon appetit!