California Farm Panang Curry Eggplant Dinner

Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
California, United States

Purple eggplants are still available in early winter at the farmers market, before the first hard frost, they taste ripe and flavorfull, mature, a great meat substitute for a curry dinner. Our favorite curry for eggplant is home made tangy Panang curry. Served with soothing apple chutney and tasty wild rice pilaf. Smells delicious, too!

California Farm Panang Curry Eggplant Dinner

Purple eggplants are still available in early winter at the farmers market, before the first hard frost, they taste ripe and flavorfull, mature, a great meat substitute for a curry dinner. Our favorite curry for eggplant is home made tangy Panang curry. Served with soothing apple chutney and tasty wild rice pilaf. Smells delicious, too!

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Ingredients

Under one hour
2 people, 4 dinners
  1. For the panang paste:
  2. 4 Tbsraw peanuts, crushed
  3. 1kemiri nut (candle nut), crushed
  4. 2fresh Carmin red peppers, slivered
  5. 2dried thai peppers, crushed
  6. 1dried makrut leaf, pulverized
  7. 2elephant garlic cloves, minced
  8. 1shallot, minced
  9. 1thumbnail fresh ginger, minced
  10. 1 Tspfermented shrimp paste, called trassi
  11. 1/2 Tspeach cumin, coriander, galangal
  12. 1 Tbslemon grass infused grape seed oil
  13. For the coconut milk:
  14. Cupdried finely shredded coconut meat
  15. Spriglemon grass
  16. Cupwater
  17. For the apple chutney:
  18. 2Apples, unpeeled, sliced 1/8th “ thin, core removed
  19. 1white Onion, sliced 1/8th” thin
  20. 2red Carmen Peppers, sliced 1/8th “ thin
  21. 1dried Kashmiri pepper, whole
  22. 1thumbnail Ginger, slivered
  23. 1 Tspfennelseed, whole
  24. 2 Tbsbrown sugar
  25. 1/2 cupraw apple cider vinegar
  26. For the egg plant dinner:
  27. 2Purple Eggplants, peeled and diced, deseeded
  28. 4makrut lime leaves, whole
  29. 1Star anise, crushed
  30. 2 Tbslemon grass infused grape seed oil
  31. 10green Pepper corns, crushed
  32. 1 TspFennel seeds, whole
  33. 4Garlic cloves, minced
  34. 1 TspCumin seeds, crushed
  35. 3Tomatoes, diced
  36. Thumnail of Ginger, slivered
  37. 2Carmen red sweet peppers, diced
  38. Equipment: wok, sauce pan for coconut milk curry, sauce pan for chutney
  39. Cost: egg plant, onions, garlic, peppers, tomato, apple $2, coconut milk, spices $1, four dinners, 67 cents each

Cooking Instructions

Under one hour
  1. 1

    Make fresh panang curry paste with raw peanuts, kemiri nut, oil, peppers, spices with mortar and pestel. Ready.

  2. 2

    Make fresh coconut milk from dried finely shredded coconut meat with sprig of lemon grass, bring to boil, stir, simmer 15 minutes, remove lemon grass sprig. Ready.

  3. 3

    Boil apple, onion, ginger, peppers, sugar, spices in vinegar while stirring, simmer 45 minutes till consistency of apple chutney. Ready.

  4. 4

    Roast panang curry and other spices in oil in wok till fragrant, add peeled and diced eggplant and diced tomato and diced sweet red peppers. Stir fry eggplant, sweet pepper and tomato in roasted spices. Remove makrut leaves. Set eggplant skins aside to make pickled egg plant skins.

  5. 5

    Add coconut milk to eggplant, sweet pepper and tomato, stir fry in wok, simmer 25 minutes

  6. 6

    Pour one cup of boiling water and one cup of boiling vegetable bouillion over the rice, bring to rolling boil, stir once, turn off heat, cover with lid, rest till rice is soft and broth has been absorbed, about an hour. Garnish stir fry with fresh cilantro, the leaves of the coriander plant.

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Hobby Horseman
Hobby Horseman @HobbyHorseman
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California, United States
I teach people at the farmers market to grow small scale fruits and vegetables. My grandparents and parents taught me growing, cooking and preserving home grown fruits and vegetables, eggs, meats and fish. I got certified by the University of California Master Gardener Program in 2005. I try to bring out the original flavor of ingredients, then add layers of spices, herbs and flavorings that enhance, not distort the taste. These are the global, organic and vegan family recipes we use.
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Vaishali Suhas
Vaishali Suhas @HealthisWealth
Delicious recipe as always dear Chef ❤️

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