Chicken And Eggplant In Black Bean Sauce Recipes

Steps:

• Rinse black beans thoroughly and dry. Remove about 1/4 cup and set aside. Roughly chop the rest of the beans.
• Heat vegetable oil in a large saucepan over medium-low heat. Add chiles, shallot, ginger, and garlic. Fry until soft and fragrant, about 5 minutes. Do not let the ingredients burn. Reduce the heat if necessary. The objective is to slow cook the ingredients. Add all the beans; both chopped and whole. Simmer, stirring often, until the beans are soft, about 2 minutes. Add tamari, rice wine, brown sugar, ground Sichuan pepper, and five spice. Simmer until thickened, stirring often. Remove from heat; let cool, about 10 minutes.
• Mix in sesame oil and cover. As the sauce rests, the beans will settle and the oil will float, creating a barrier which will protect it from mold. The sauce is ready to use or store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for up to 1 month.

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Melt 2 tablespoons butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Stir flour into melted butter until smooth; cook for 1 minute. Stir sour cream, onion, garlic powder, sugar, nutmeg, salt, and pepper into the flour mixture until evenly mixed; add ground chicken and green beans. Cook and stir mixture until chicken is completely browned and the onion is translucent, 7 to 10 minutes.
• Arrange eggplant rounds into the bottom of a 9x13-inch baking dish. Spread chicken and green bean mixture over the eggplant. Top with Cheddar cheese.
• Mix cracker crumbs and 1 tablespoon melted butter in a bowl until crackers are evenly moistened; sprinkle over the Cheddar cheese.
• Bake in preheated oven until top is golden and cheese is bubbly, about 30 minutes.

Steps:

• Heat saucepan on medium high. Add oil, hot but not smoky.
• Add minced ginger root, garlic, white part of green onion and salt and pepper. Cook to soften.
• Add fermented black beans, smash with spoon and mix into ginger, garlic, onion mixture.
• Add chopped onion, cook to soften 2 minutes.
• Add oyster sauce and rice vinegar, mix well.
• Add eggplants and mix well.
• Add red pepper flakes, if using.
• Cook until eggplants and onion are well done.
• Taste and add soy sauce, if needed.
• Garnish with green part of onions.
• Serve with sauce over white rice.

Steps:

• Sprinkle salt evenly over both sides of eggplant slices; set aside for 5 minutes. Cut eggplant into cubes.
• Cook and stir chicken, garlic, and soy sauce together in a large skillet over medium heat until the chicken is nearly cooked through, 7 to 10 minutes.
• Stir mushrooms and black pepper into the chicken mixture; continue cooking until the mushrooms brown, 2 to 3 minutes.
• Heat canola oil in a separate skillet over medium heat. Cook eggplant in hot canola oil until lightly browned; add to skillet with the chicken.
• Stir spinach through the chicken and eggplant mixture; cook and stir until the spinach wilts, 2 to 3 minutes.

Steps:

• Rinse eggplant and dry.
• Diagonally slice the eggplant into 11/2-inch thick slices. (This will create diagonally sliced, round discs).
• With the tip of a knife, slice a pocket into each piece, slicing parallel to the surface and slicing only about 3/4 of the way through each slice.
• Each eggplant disc now has an opening for the shrimp stuffing.
• Chop shrimp into pieces about the size of corn kernels.
• Place shrimp in a bowl and season with salt and pepper; mix until shrimp becomes sticky, about 4 minutes.
• Using a table knife, stuff about 1 to 2 teaspoons shrimp mixture into the pocket in each eggplant slice.
• Dip knife into cold water between stuffing to smooth shrimp filling (This step could take 15 to 20 minutes).
• Pour 1 cup oil into a large skillet and heat over medium-high heat.
• Pan-fry stuffed eggplant until brown on both sides.
• (Eggplant absorbs oil like a sponge; add additional oil if pan becomes dry or eggplant will not brown).
• When brown, remove from pan and set aside to drain.
• Pour 1 tablespoon oil into a hot wok.
• Add black bean, garlic and ginger; stir-fry until ingredients become a light brown.
• Add 1 1/2 cups water, sugar, soy sauce and wine.
• Stir together cornstarch with 1/2 cup water, mixing until well-dissolved.
• Slowly pour cornstarch mixture into wok, stirring constantly.
• Cook, stirring, until mixture has the consistency of syrup.
• Stir in sesame seed oil, then remove from heat.
• Dip each eggplant piece in sauce to coat well, then place each piece on a small, heatproof plate.
• Place plate in steamer and steam over boiling water 12 to 15 minutes.
• Serve warm.