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Chinese eggplant recipes you’ll want to cook right now

Including that all-time crowd favourite, the Sichuan braised eggplant.
Good Luck Pinbone’s Sichuan chilli eggplant with wood-ear fungus

Good Luck Pinbone’s Sichuan chilli eggplant with wood-ear fungus

We’re calling it – eggplants, cooked as the Chinese do, are one of the finest ways to prepare the purple stuff. And who better to turn to for Chinese eggplant recipes than the people who cook for a living? Try them Tony Tan’s way in a Hakka-style dish, where the eggplant are stuffed with prawns then deep-fried; or steamed Shandong-style before being topped with a sesame dressing.

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But if we’re talking all-time favourites, it’s got to be eggplant done Sichuan-style: fish-fragrant eggplant by Dainty Sichuan and Dan Hong, or braised with chilli, garlic and wood-ear fungus à la one-time pop-up restaurant Goodluck Pinbone.

Photo: Ben Dearnley

Tony Tan’s eggplant and broad beans with soy-sesame dressing

Grilled eggplant with sesame, cumin and chilli
Photo: Alicia Taylor

Victor Liong’s grilled eggplant with sesame, cumin and chilli

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Photo: Mark Roper

Fish-fragrant eggplant (Yu xiang qie zi)

Photo: Jason Loucas

Dan Hong’s crisp eggplant with fish-fragrant sauce

Spice Temple's steamed eggplant with three flavours
Photo: Vanessa Levis

Spice Temple’s steamed eggplant with three flavours

Hakka-style eggplant with prawn filling
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Hakka-style eggplant with prawn filling

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Salt-and-pepper tofu with braised eggplant
Photo: Ben Dearnley

Salt-and-pepper tofu with braised eggplant

Eggplant stuffed with taro
Photo: Con Poulos

Lau’s Family Kitchen’s eggplant stuffed with taro

Photo: Chris Chen

Shandong-style steamed eggplant with sesame dressing

Photo: Mikkel Vang

Sichuan braised eggplant

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Good Luck Pinbone’s Sichuan chilli eggplant with wood-ear fungus
Photo: Ben Hansen

Good Luck Pinbone’s Sichuan chilli eggplant with wood-ear fungus

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