This eggplant in oyster sauce recipe is one of JDP’s most popular posts! It’s quick, easy, and packed with umami flavor. This dish one of my go-to dinners during the week.

by jessica yoon
This eggplant in oyster sauce recipe is one of JDP’s most popular posts! It’s quick, easy, and packed with umami flavor. This dish one of my go-to dinners during the week.
This dish takes me back to hole-in-the-wall restaurants in Korea where people are sitting elbow to elbow, slurping noodles, while escaping a gloomy day of rain. There’s a level of comfort that can’t be found in a gourmet, five-star restaurant. It’s a dish you can make for just one for a dinner in front of the TV, or for a group of people on a night spent in. The dish is familiar, comfortable, and very homey.
These noodles are a marriage between a stir fry and noodle soup. A broth is made by boiling the shrimp in water which is later added to stir fried aromatics and oyster sauce. The stir fried bean sprouts also let out a little bit of juice which really deepens the flavor and gives it a sophisticated lift that is desperately lost in instant noodles.
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