Spicy Eggplants With Minced Pork in Clay Pot
Make and share this Spicy Eggplants With Minced Pork in Clay Pot recipe from Food.com.
Make and share this Spicy Eggplants With Minced Pork in Clay Pot recipe from Food.com.
This is a recipe I developed from my memories of this dish at an Indiana restaurant. I would order this with Fried Rice and an Egg Roll. I combined several recipes and have experimented to try to replicate the flavor. This is the result, Lobster sauce is a misnomer as there is no lobster in the dish. It is the name for the style of sauce used on the dish.
From Wei-Chuan’s Cookbook, Chinese Cuisine. This is an authentic chinese recipe. The dried scallops or dried shrimp lends a complex aroma to the clean crisp lettuce. Dried scallops are expensive, but they lend a sweet seafood taste and is much preferred, the dried shrimp is tasty too, but the flavor is more robust. Although I made this as is with the dried scallops –it was excellent, and I loved the texture of the lettuce, I find iceberg void of the nutrients of true green leafy vegetables favored by the Chinese. Therefore, this dish can be made with romaine lettuce, baby bok choy or pea shoot leaves (which are abundant in late winter and early spring in chinatowns in major cities.) We actually ordered this dish with scallop/pea shoot leaves recently over Chinese New Year in a restaurant and it would’ve been tastier with this sauce!
This recipe, served during the Chinese New Year, represents abundance, increasing wealth and prosperity in the coming year.
This Cantonese dish is from An Encyclopedia of Chinese food and cooking by Wonona W. and Irving B. Chang, Helene W. and Austin H. Hutscher.
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