Eggplant bell pepper soy sauce in a frying pan

Quick, easy, savory snack in a hurry! Eggplant, bell pepper and soy sauce cooked together in a frying pan turn into an amazing aromatic dish with a sharp taste and creamy consistency. Due to the fast roasting, the vegetables remain a little crispy and very healthy!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 % 2 g
Fats 27 % 6 g
Carbohydrates 64 % 14 g
89 kcal
GI: 93 / 0 / 7

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 10 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to fry eggplant and bell pepper with soy sauce in a frying pan? Prepare the products. Rinse the vegetables under running water, remove the stems and seeds from the pepper. Cut the blue ones into circles about one centimeter thick, and then in half. Pour a small amount of vegetable oil into a frying pan, heat it over high heat and send the eggplants to fry. Cook them until a golden crust appears on both sides.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Remove the eggplants from the pan (you can use paper napkins to get rid of excess oil). Peel the onion, rinse in water and chop coarsely.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add, if required, a little vegetable oil to the same pan, as the eggplant can completely absorb it. Send the onion to fry. Stirring, cook for a few seconds (vegetables fry very quickly in a hot frying pan).

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Remove the onions with a large spoon and put them to the previously fried eggplants.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Next, fry the bell pepper, cut into large fragments. Cook for a few seconds, stirring.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Also use a spoon to remove the finished pepper from the pan.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Prepare the dressing. Add starch and garlic passed through the press to the soy sauce. If desired, add quite a bit of sugar and salt. Mix it up.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Remove the remaining oil from the pan with paper napkins and send all the fried vegetables back to high heat.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Pour soy-garlic sauce into the vegetables in a thin stream.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    With your free hand, continuously mix the eggplant with pepper. Cook the vegetables in this way for a few seconds until the sauce thickens.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Remove the vegetables from the heat and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs. Coriander, parsley and green onions are good. Cool or leave the dish hot. Eggplants with pepper are ready, you can serve them to the table!

The finished dish can be sprinkled with fried sesame seeds, then the taste will be more pronounced and saturated. Serve eggplant as an independent dish or as an addition to meat, kebabs, grilled sausages, rice or potatoes.

How to remove the bitterness from eggplant? Cut the eggplant into plates, circles or cubes, add salt, leave for about 10 minutes until the juice is released. Drain the resulting liquid, rinse the eggplants and start cooking. 

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

When adding soy sauce to a dish, it is worth considering that it has a rather salty taste. Reduce the total amount of salt, otherwise you risk over-salting.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Eggplant - 24   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Fresh frozen soup greens in a package - 41   kcal/100g
  • Greenery - 41   kcal/100g
  • Potato starch - 300   kcal/100g

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