4 people · Easy · 30 min · ₭ Cheap

This Eggplant sauce is an authentic dish in Laos. It can go as a side dish with Lao food on the table. The perfect combination is to eat it with sticky rice.

Ingredients

• 4 eggplants, you can also use the purple color ones
• 4 Asian red shallots
• 5 cloves of garlic
• 18 fresh chili, more or less
• 2 branches of green onions, thinly sliced
• 1 bunch of coriander, thinly sliced
• 1 teaspoon of salt
• ½ teaspoon of sugar
• ½ teaspoon of MSG
• ½ tablespoon of fish sauce

Preparation

1. Grill the red shallots with garlic, chili and eggplants on slow to medium heat until they are soft and get a bit burned on the skin, which means they are cooked.

2. Peel the red shallots, garlic and eggplants and leave them on a plate.

3. Use a mortar and pestle to finely pound the red shallots with the garlic and chili first. The add salt, sugar and MSG. Then add eggplants (cut it small pieces) and smash it roughly. Add seasoning with fish sauce and mix well together. Finally, add some sliced coriander and green onions. Use a spoon to mix together. Taste it and serve with sticky rice and steamed beef jerky. Zap!