Follow this recipe of Pecel Terong (grilled eggplant with chili sauce) to make your diet more colorful!
Kitchenesia.com - Eggplant is a perfect vegetables to replace meat for its soft texture and adaptability with any ingredients.
If you're a vegetarian, or simply want to try plant-based diet, Kitchenesia suggests you to add eggplant in your regular diet.
The recipe below is another redintion of pecel (Javanese chilli sauce) with eggplant, and they combine perfectly!
Before cooking it, we have a suggestion: wrap eggplant with aluminium foil before grilling it to help cooking the eggplant to the inside without burning the outside.
4 (250 grams) purple eggplants, grilled, halved lengthwise
2 lime leaves
250 coconut milk from a half of coconut
3/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 teaspoon sugar
Ingredients to Grind Altogether:
4 red chili peppers
1/4 teaspoon terasi (shrimp paste)
3 cloves garlic
1 cm sand ginger
5 candlenuts, fried
Topping:
1 tablespoon fried shallot
1. Put grilled eggplant on the pan. Add in ground spices blend, lime leaves, coconut milk, salt, and sugar.
2. Stir-fry it until the sauce is thickened and reduced. Remove it from heat.
3. Pecel Terong (grilled eggplant with chilli sauce) is ready to serve.
