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Cooking dinner tonight? Simple vietnamese claypot recipe

I recently visited a cooking school in the city of Hoi An in Vietnam (while on holiday, I didn't go to Vietnam ONLY for the cooking school!). While the day seemed more about a tour of the markets and food related entertainment (perhaps I should bring this approach to my cooking school) - we did get a few cooking gems out of them!

One of them is a very simple claypot dish you can make with a clay/earthenware or flame proof casserole dish, placed on your stove:

1. turn on the heat and add 3 tbs peanut oil and put in 2 cloves chopped garlic
2. finely chop up the white part of a stick of lemongrass. Put in the chopped white part and keep the green stick
3. Roughly chop a tomato and put it in - stir all this around with your chopsticks as the tomato turns to a pulp (at least 3 min)
4. add a teaspoon of curry powder (or 1/2 tumeric and 1/2 ground corriander), stir through and add a eggplant, chopped into large (2cm) cubes
5. Add 1 tsp sugar, a cup of water and cover & simmer for 5 min
6. take the lid off and add 2 tbs fish sauce, some 5cm long stems of spring onions and cook a final 2 min uncovered
7. Serve sprinkled with cilantro and with white rice on the side

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