I wanted to make a dish that is light in calories after eating a whole scallion pancake. What has a scallion pancake has to do with wanting a meal with lighter calories. It is the starch. I subscribe to refined sugar and starch are the biggest cause of obesity, not fat or protein.
this scallion pancake has 2 cups of flour and I ate it in two settings
I needed a light dinner so I pondered what I can make with the least of effort but no compromise in taste and enjoyment of a healthy meal, with all the ingredients that I had on hand. I had a nice Asian eggplant so why not make a claypot braised eggplant? I had a vague notion in my mind what the dish would look and taste and I set to work. The dish was driven by the ingredients that I fancy and had:
- Asian eggplant
- marinated lean pork slices
- braised shiitake mushrooms
- soaked black cloud ear fungus
- frozen sea scallop
- out the way out baby bok choy
- garlic
- onion shoots from my garden
- oyster sauce
- soy sauce
- salt
- olive oil
- Chinese cooking wine
- sake
- black pepper
- fermented soy bean sauce
- cilantro
20 minutes later this free-from dish was ready; I used a single person serving clay pot and had to struggle to fit all the ingredient into the pot (by stages)
I didn't want any starch so I ate it like a snack
I only ate half of it and the leftover needed some quick thinking as to what to do with it. I replenished some mushrooms and cloud ear fungus. I have a piece of dense tofu which would add some bulk to the dish. For green vegetable I added some Taiwanese lettuce. I also added some sake for the broth.
the leftover eggplants in clay pot was made into another delicious meal
I also added some soy bean sprouts for bulk
like the old Maxwell House coffee advert it is good to the last drop
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