You love talong (eggplants) but all you do is cook them into Tortang Talong all the time. Well, there is a different way of cooking talong that will still let you savor Filipino flavors.
Why not cook them into Bistek Tagalog, substituting the usual beef with eggplants, for a change? It will be a lighter version of Bistek but an equally delicious one at that.
In its recently released “Easy Vegetarian Recipes” cookbooklet, Mama Sita’s makes this suggestion and shows how easily it can be done.
Bistek na Talong
Ingredients:
3 cloves (15 grams) garlic, crushed
2 pcs. (300 grams) eggplants, 9 inches long, sliced
1/4 cup Mama Sita’s Toyo and Kalamansi
1/4 cup water
1 pc. (60 grams) white onion, medium size, sliced into rings
1 tbsp. (15 ml.) cooking oil
Procedure:
1. In a small saucepan, combine garlic, eggplant, Mama Sita’s Toyo and Kalamansi, and water. Cover and boil for 10 minutes.
2. Remove eggplants and save the cooking liquid.
3. In a wok, heat cooking oil and pan-fry the onion rings. Set aside.
4. Using the same pan, fry the eggplants.
5. Stir in the liquid from boiling the eggplant and continue cooking for another minute.
6. Remove from heat and serve topped with the fried onion rings.