Terong balado is a Minang dish of eggplant(terong) cooked in chili sauce(balado).

It is normally made with long Chinese eggplant. Serve with rice.

Recipe

Ingredients

• 2 clove garlic
• 2 red bird eye chili
• 2 red cayenne chili or seeded red bird eye chili
• ¼ tsp salt
• 1 shallot, sliced
• 2 kaffir lime leaf or Indonesian bay leaf(daun salam)
• ½ tbsp palm sugar
• 1 tomato, chopped, or tamarind water
• 2 Chinese eggplant or similar eggplant, trimmed and cut into chunks

Directions

• steam eggplant
• pound garlic, chili, salt, shallot
• saute
• mix in sugar, tamarind water, kaffir lime leaf
• add eggplant
• stir
• serve