Chinese
Di San Xian (Potato, Aubergine and Green Pepper)
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Di San Xian (Potato, Aubergine and Green Pepper) is Chinese home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre and the cooked vegetable. 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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Cut the potato and eggplant into large, roughly equal chunks; cut the green pepper into large squares.
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Heat half the oil in a wok over medium-high heat and fry the potato chunks 5 minutes, turning, until golden on the edges, then remove.
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Add the remaining oil and fry the eggplant 4 minutes, until softened and lightly browned, then remove.
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Add the garlic to the wok and stir-fry a few seconds, then return the potato and eggplant along with the green pepper.
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Whisk the soy sauce, sugar, cornstarch and water together and pour into the wok.
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Toss everything together 2 minutes until the sauce thickens and coats the vegetables, then serve.
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Serve it with
A Chinese dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Di San Xian (Potato, Aubergine and Green Pepper), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
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The sharp little thing
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Di San Xian (Potato, Aubergine and Green Pepper) carries gluten and soy. It is free of the remaining 8 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | Yes | Bai Zhou (Plain Rice Congee) |
| 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
- 480 kcal
- Protein
- 6 g
- Carbs
- 52 g
- Fat
- 28 g
- Fiber
- 5 g
- Sugar
- 2 g
- Sodium
- 900 mg
- Saturated fat
- 3 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Di San Xian (Potato, Aubergine and Green Pepper) takes about 35 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a fair bit of work. 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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