Vietnamese
Ca Phao Muoi (Hanoi Salted Crunchy Eggplants)
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Ca Phao Muoi (Hanoi Salted Crunchy Eggplants) is Vietnamese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the condiment and the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Pull the green caps off the eggplants, rinse them and soak them for 30 minutes in water with a spoonful of the salt to draw out the bitterness, then drain.
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Boil the water with the remaining salt and the sugar until dissolved and let the brine cool completely.
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Pack the eggplants into a clean jar with the smashed garlic, sliced galangal and whole chilies and pour the cooled brine over.
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Weigh the eggplants down so every one stays under the brine, cover, and leave at room temperature for 3 to 4 days until they turn pale yellow and taste sour and crunchy.
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Refrigerate and serve a small dish beside rice and a canh; they keep about two weeks. Many Hanoi families buy them already salted at the market.
Serve it with
A Vietnamese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Ca Phao Muoi (Hanoi Salted Crunchy Eggplants), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Ca Phao Muoi (Hanoi Salted Crunchy Eggplants) carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish |
|---|---|
| Peanuts | No |
| Tree nuts | No |
| Dairy | No |
| Gluten | No |
| Shellfish | No |
| Eggs | No |
| Soy | No |
| Fish | No |
| Sesame | No |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 20 kcal
- Protein
- 1 g
- Carbs
- 4 g
- Fat
- 0 g
- Fiber
- 2 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 550 mg
- Saturated fat
- 0 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Ca Phao Muoi (Hanoi Salted Crunchy Eggplants) takes about 30 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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