How to make delicious crispy cucumber and eggplant sauce in the Central region

If you are a child of the dear Central region, surely you are no stranger to pickle sauce, right? The combination of strong chili garlic and crispy cucumber makes this delicious dish extremely impressive. Let’s go to the kitchen to make melon and tomato sauce in the Central region to enjoy with the whole family.

Prepare
15 Minutes Processing
30 Minutes For
2-3 people eat

Ingredients for making tomato pickle sauce

Ingredients for tomato pickle sauce

• 130ml seasoning sauce
• 180g salted eggplant
• 100g sour chili (can use regular chili instead if not available)
• ½ bell pepper, garlic, pineapple, 1 cucumber
• Spices: Sugar

How to make cucumber pickle sauce

Step 1Prepare cucumber and pineapple

The cucumbers you buy are washed, soaked in salt water for about 10 minutes to remove bacteria . Then you cut the melon in half, removing the seeds inside. Next, you cut the cucumber diagonally into bite-sized pieces, about 4mm thick and then put in a clean bowl.

Preliminary processing of cucumbers

Note : You should not cut the melon too thin because it will lose its crispiness when making fish sauce, the fish sauce will not be delicious.

You continue to put about 1 tablespoon of salt in the bowl of melon and shake well, leaving a place for the salt to melt evenly into the melon. Pineapple you wash and cut into small pieces to eat.

Aroma processing

Then you put all the pineapple cut into a filter bag and squeeze it with your hand to filter the water. The aromatic residue after squeezing is not removed, but kept for use in dishes.

Step 2Prep the remaining ingredients

Prepare other ingredients

You take out 180g eggplant and cut the eggplant in half or quarter (if they are too large). If the tomatoes are already cut, that’s it. 2 garlic cloves peeled, put in a blender. Wash bell peppers and cut into cubes.

Step 3Pickle salt

Cucumbers after soaking in salt, rinse about 1-2 times and squeeze out the water in the melon.

Pickled cucumber with sugar

Then you add 1 tablespoon of sugar and mix well, marinate for about 15-20 minutes to make the cucumber crispy and delicious. When the sugar has dissolved, you squeeze the melon again to drain.

Add ingredients and mix well

You continue to put the prepared ingredients into the melon including 180g eggplant, 100g sour chili, 50g bell pepper, squeezed juice and minced garlic. Mix all ingredients together and marinate for 5-10 minutes.

Step 4Make seasoning sauce

You put about 90g sugar in the pot, cook until the sugar is partially melted, then turn off the heat and pour in 30ml of cold water. You continue to turn on the stove and cook until the sugar is completely dissolved, slightly brown in color .

Make seasoning sauce

Then you put the fragrant juice you squeezed earlier and about 130ml of seasoning sauce into the pot, continue to boil over medium heat. When the seasoning is done, turn off the heat and let the pot of fish sauce cool down.

Finally, after the seasoning has cooled, you pour the fish sauce into the pickle above and mix it well and you’re done.

Reference : 3 ways to make seasoned vermicelli noodles with Central taste

Finished product

The bowl of fish sauce seasoned with an eye-catching color combination from cucumber green, pineapple yellow, bell pepper red and tawny brown fish sauce. Sweet and sour sweet and sour fish sauce mixed with spicy, crispy eggplant and cucumber, strong aroma stimulates the taste buds.

Crispy tomato sauce finished product

You can enjoy it right away or store it in a jar and store it in the fridge for better taste the next day.

Seasoning sauce can be eaten in combination with hot rice and seasoned vermicelli; or the dipping sauce of boiled meat, grilled fish, cake, … are all excellent. Have you been convinced by this delicious recipe of crispy eggplant sauce in the Central region? Save the recipe and do it right away. Good luck with your cooking!

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