Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, stir-fried eggplant with chicken (a twist on p.f. chang’s stir-fried spicy eggplant recipe). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
This is a copycat recipe for P F Chang's Stir-Fried Spicy Eggplant (Chinese eggplant tossed in a spicy vegetarian sauce with chili paste and Add eggplant and mix well. Stir in cornstarch paste a little at a time until desired consistency. Stir-fry cubed chicken breast with mushrooms, spinach, eggplant, and soy sauce for a quick and easy main dish. If you like eggplant, this Stir Fry Eggplant with Chicken recipe is a must try.
Stir-fried eggplant with chicken (a twist on P.F. Chang’s stir-fried spicy eggplant recipe) is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. Stir-fried eggplant with chicken (a twist on P.F. Chang’s stir-fried spicy eggplant recipe) is something that I’ve loved my whole life. They are fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook stir-fried eggplant with chicken (a twist on p.f. chang’s stir-fried spicy eggplant recipe) using 17 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Stir-fried eggplant with chicken (a twist on P.F. Chang’s stir-fried spicy eggplant recipe):
- Prepare 2 tablespoons sesame oil (no canola oil is used as no deep frying in this recipe)
- Prepare 1 tablespoon minced garlic (about 6 large cloves)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons sliced ginger
- Prepare 1 tablespoon sesame seeds
- Take 1 tablespoon cornstarch, mixed with 2 tablespoons water
- Take 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
- Make ready 2 tablespoons soy sauce
- Make ready 1 tablespoon fish sauce (instead of vinegar)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons date syrup (instead of the sugar and to induce some dark color as no bean sauce is used in this recipe)
- Make ready 2 tablespoons water
- Get Chicken breasts cut into cubes and cooked separately in a pan with 1 tablespoon canola oil, salt and pepper
- Prepare Skinned Eggplant sliced as desired
- Prepare Carrots cut into stripes
- Get Green onions
- Get Steamed white rice
- Take Chili flakes (no chili paste or spicy sauce to make it edible for children but these can be added as desired)
- Take Water to steam the eggplants and carrots (steaming is used to eliminate using a lot of oil in the recipe and to reduce time for sautéing eggplants and carrots in oil)
This quick and easy stir-fried chicken dish with Thai eggplant and red chili paste is one the most popular dishes at the restaurant. We use the meat from a nice big chicken leg, but you can use the same recipe to make it with chicken breast, pork, or even beef. Serve with a nice helping of delicious. Japanese Eggplant with Chicken and Thai basil stir-fry wakes up your taste buds with Thai basil and tender Japanese eggplant and is so easy to make at home.
Instructions to make Stir-fried eggplant with chicken (a twist on P.F. Chang’s stir-fried spicy eggplant recipe):
- Steam the eggplants and the carrots separately
- In a wok or large pan add the 2 tablespoons sesame oil, the garlic, the ginger and the sesame seeds.. Oh the fragrance!!😋😋
- Sauté the steamed carrots first for about 1 minute then add steamed eggplants and drizzle some sesame oil on top. Carefully mix for about 5 minutes. Note that since steaming has been used, it reduces a lot the cooking time of the vegetables at this phase. Basically we are just coating them with flavor. You can vary the amount of time for steaming and make it less steaming but more sautéing time with oil or the opposite like what I did. I chose the latter to give it a healthier twist.
- Now add the already chicken cubes on top of step 3.
- Prepare the sauce by mixing the cornstarch with the water, adding the soy sauce, oyster sauce, fish sauce, chili flakes, and the date syrup. If you need to use more water you can add the amount of water remaining or less of it as desired.
- Pour the sauce prepared in step 5 to step 4 and wait until it reduces
- Slice green onions to garnish and serve with white steamed rice. Bon appetit!👌
Serve with a nice helping of delicious. Japanese Eggplant with Chicken and Thai basil stir-fry wakes up your taste buds with Thai basil and tender Japanese eggplant and is so easy to make at home. If using eggplants with thick skin, like the regular large variety you find at your average grocery store, you can peel all or part of the skin off. Spicy Stir-Fried Eggplant, Tofu and Water Spinach (Ong Choy). Stir the chicken back into the pan, and add the fish and soy sauce mixture.
Discover How to Improve Your Mood with Food
Most of us believe that comfort foods are not good for us and that we must stay away from them. Sometimes, if the comfort food is a sugary food or another junk food, this is true. Other times, though, comfort foods can be completely nutritious and it’s good for you to consume them. There are some foods that, when you consume them, can boost your mood. If you seem to feel a little bit down and you need a happiness pick me up, try some of these.
Eggs, believe it or not, are great for helping you battle depression. Just see to it that you don’t toss out the yolk. Whenever you would like to cheer yourself up, the yolk is the most important part of the egg. Eggs, especially the egg yolks, are rich in B vitamins. These B vitamins are wonderful for helping to raise your mood. This is because the B vitamins help your neural transmitters–the parts of your brain that affect your mood–function better. Try eating a few eggs to cheer up!
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As you can see, you don’t need to eat junk food or foods that are terrible for you just so to feel better! Try some of these hints instead.
