[recipe] Mahogany Eggplant ~ vegan

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This recipe calls for the long thin Japanese eggplant [aubergine]

but if you cannot find them, just use regular. I used to buy this dish

at a local fish market deli out in Kahaluu, Hawaii. I was tickled pink

to find a recipe for it in my new vegan cookbook. I adjusted it a bit

to fit my taste and here is what I came up with. I rather like this

cold

served over just warm brown rice, but it was pretty delicious served

hot as well.

 

Mahogany Eggplant

 

3 Tbs peanut or sesame oil

3 Japanese eggplants, cut into 1 inch idagonal slices

2 cloves garlic, minced

3 scallions, chopped

1 Tbs peeled and minced fresh ginger

3 Tbs tamari sauce [or other soy sauce]

1 Tbs sake or dry white wine

1 tsp light brown sugar

1 tsp Asian chili paste

1/4 cup water

 

1. Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a wok or large skillet.

Add the eggplant in batches and cook until browned on both

sides, about 10 minutes total. Transfer to a plate and set aside.

 

2. Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon of oil in the same skillet over

medium heat. Add the garlic, scallions and ginger and cook,

stirring, for

about 30 seconds. Stir in the tamari, sake, brown sugar, chili paste

and

water; simmer for about 2 minutes, stirring to blend. Return eggplant

to pan

and toss to coat it with the sauce. Cover and simmer until tender,

about 10

minutes.

 

Yield: 4 servings

 

~ feral ~

 

We slave like infernal fools in our two cells,

Straining to bring the soul an eternal mesh.

Draining the heart and head, each finger spells

A word we pray will endure beyond the flesh.

Both of us, being different in our ways,

Cling to frail paper with a personal pen.

The things he writes or I indite, we praise--

For poets, after all, are lonely men

Singing a bit to themselves, but more to each other--

Hoping that fellow there will recognize

A bit of himself in this pale groping brother

Who strives to live through more than mortal eyes,

And adds to a groaning world, too busy to bother,

The tears that only common kinship dries.

~Alfred Kreymborg; The Lost Sail: A Cape Cod Diary;

Coward-McCann, Inc.;1928.