How to Make Crispy Thai Eggplant Salad with Fried Shallots
Test cook Dan Souza makes Bridget a Thai-inspired crispy eggplant salad.
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Very good tasty eggplant salad
Like the explaintion/visuals of how eggplant carries water & how to dehydrate it. Getting inspiration to blend non oily marinades/broths into future micowave wilted 🍆 dishes.
I'd like the recommend the Thai Eggplant and Beef Salad "Pla Nuea" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlGo5OEhXOA
1:48 Palm sugar or Jaggery is not just a Thai ingredient. It's also found in other Asian countries.
would this microwave then fry technique work if you're going to use the eggplant whole, like Turkish karniyarik
Another winner!
I love eggplant , Thank you for this Thai recipe ❤️.
I love Dano's voice! He's so masculine!
For a Thai person like me, that is looking good. Thanks
such a good video
Can I airfry the eggplants?
You should bake the eggplant and not fry it in two cups of oil! Not healthy! I also bake shallots to crisp them and never fry them.
OMG… This could be a hot item in an high-end expensive restaurant!!
I just listened to Dan's Moth story today in a parking lot (couldn't turn it off before going in) and didn't realize till the end "that's Dan!" Absolutely wonderful! I love all his atk videos and highly recommend his Moth presentation.
น้ำพริก (Nam Phrik) is just so great on anything and everything, please please please try it out 😀
This is.the best eggplant recipe I've ever made. We just inhaled this for dinner. The dressing is insanely flavorful. What I love about America's Test Kitchen recipes is, they use ingredients that are readily available at most markets. I was able to make this with ingredients I had on hand. For those interested, I air fried the eggplant. (tossed in good amount of veg oil first) It came out delicious. When I have more time, I will try the frying method. LOVED IT. Thanks, Dan and ATK.
I'm sure Bridget hears this all the time, but I think her and Bonnie Hunt were separated at birth. I've had a crush on both of them for a long time.
Eggplant is culinarily offensive. If all you are is a tasteless substrate to convey sauce, get out of my dish.
It looks very delicious! I want to enjoy it with Thai beer!
Dan’s eggplant is super savory
If you don't have palm sugar, then coconut sugar is a very good substitute!
Dan is the man!!!! 😍
The lady in this video does not contribute at all with her little comments & grunts to the video – it is soooo annoying and does not add a thing to Dan's presentation.
Ick. Nuker. Happily my Mediterrean family has made eggplant dishes forever without using that noxious nuker. Crap cooking tool. Wish you wouldn't showcase it.
Please try to cook without producing trash like zip lock bags, coffee filter etc. Lot of these can be done with minimal waste. You guys do a great job with taste, just being thoughtful is enough; it is not very hard.
Please don’t promote silly old food hacks. 😐😆😆
In Thailand we never ever put ginger in our spicy salad, next time try lemongrass. Also, rice vinegar? We don't even use it in our cuisine that's from Japanese cuisine, we use white vinegar. You should call it an Asian-inspired spicy salad. Yes, they played it safe by calling it Thai 'inspired' but what's wrong with learning the right thing? All he did was putting a bunch of Asian ingredients in his crispy eggplant salad and call it Thai? He didn't even use Thai eggplant?!? Fish sauce, palm sugar, spicy salad, fried shallots, and cilantro are EVERYWHERE in South East Asia. Only his Thai chili and basil has anything to do with Thailand if that's the case then I could probably put Italian sausage in my Thai spicy salad and call it Italian-inspired spicy salad.
Can you use an air fryer for the eggplant?
That tomato thing is silly.