Recipe Thai Ratatouille

Yorky

Yorky

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Ingredients
  • 8 Thai green eggplants, sliced 8 mm
  • 5 gherkins, sliced 8 mm
  • 4 tomatoes, peeled and chopped
  • 1 onion, thinly sliced
  • 1 red capsicum, thinly sliced
  • 4 garlic cloves, minced
  • 6 Thai red chili peppers, chopped
  • 4 flat parsley leaves, chopped
  • olive oil
  • seasoning
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Method
  1. Put the eggplants and gherkins in a bowl, season with salt, mix well and put aside for 30 minutes.
  2. In a flat based pan, stir fry the sliced eggplants and gherkins in olive oil for around 5 minutes until slightly brown. Remove and put aside.
  3. Add the onions, chilies and capsicums to the pan with a little more olive oil. Stir fry for around 10 minutes then add the garlic and a little salt and pepper.
  4. Add the chopped tomatoes, cover and cook for a further 5 minutes.
  5. Then add the reserved eggplants and gherkins and the parsley and cook covered for a further 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
  6. Serve hot.
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morning glory said:
So the gherkins are sort of in place of courgettes? I'm assuming they are not what I know as gherkins which are pickled.
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I guess that they are mini cucumbers - called "taeng wah" here. No, they are not pickled.
 
@Yorky

Splendid version ..

I have seen Japanese Aubergine ( Deep Aubergine Violet Plum Black Color ) and / or Eggplant ..

How do the Green Eggplant taste ? Is there a difference in profile ?

Have a nice day ..
 
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Well, @Yorky: I finally made your winning recipe. But, in all honesty, I replaced just about every ingredient with an equivalent. Instead of Thai eggplant, I the standard purple variety. I used cucumbers instead of gherkins. I used Calabrian chili peppers instead of Thai chili peppers. Red onion instead of yellow. And, I used twice as much garlic.

But, my absolute favorite was my decision to use cherry tomatoes instead of regular tomatoes. They're small enough that I didn't have to cut them, but just imagine how much more difficult I made the task of peeling them. Instead of 4 tomatoes, I had to peel about 40 little slippery ones. It's a lot of fun: you should try it sometime.

Note my attempt to replicate your presentation in my photography.

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The end result was excellent. By the way, @morning glory, I will not be entering this into the contest, even though it might be different enough to qualify. There's a funny story there, too. I didn't even plan to make this recipe: I just happened to get all the ingredients for separate reasons.

The eggplant was for the contest, of course. But, I got the cucumber to make to tzatziki sauce. I got the tomatoes to make oven dried tomatoes (which I've been doing quite a bit lately). I think I bought the bell pepper because it was cheap with no clear idea of what to do with it. I always have onions and peppers on hand. It was a happy accident, but it created the perfect storm. That's another reason why it shouldn't qualify for the contest: I just used two clichés in one sentence.
 
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The word eggplant turned me off straight away, I'm sorry but I can't go there. Your gerkins are exactly what I have been pickling. I know I need to really try them but something in the texture. Not many things I don't like. Yours looks appetising though.

Russ
 
rascal said:
The word eggplant turned me off straight away, I'm sorry but I can't go there.
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What's your issue with aubergine? I recall that @Herbie 's partner doesn't like it either (I think!). I reckon it depends how it cooked...

Also - these are Thai green aubergines. They are very different from the purple ones. They stay quite crunchy in my experience. And the purple ones aren't even crunchy to start with.
 
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morning glory said:
What's your issue with aubergine? I recall that @Herbie 's partner doesn't like it either (I think!). I reckon it depends how it cooked...

Also - these are Thai green aubergines. They are very different from the purple ones. They stay quite crunchy in my experience. And the purple ones aren't even crunchy to start with.
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Ok, I'm going to try to find these.

Russ
 
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