Marinated eggplant with vermicelli

Ingredients

1 tbs vegetable oil

7 cups eggplant

3 tbs lime juice

3 tbs soy sauce

2½ brown sugar

3 cloves/ 1 tbs minced garlic

6 oz vermicelli

spinach

shredded carrot

crushed roasted peanuts

Instructions

1. Heat oil over medium-high heat, add eggplant, sautee until soft.

2. Meanwhile, whisk together lime juice, soy sauce, brown sugar, and garlic until sugar dissolve. STir into eggplant, cover, and reduce heat to low.

3. Cook vermicelli based on package instruction (or just boil it in water until soft), drain.

4. Put spinach on plate, top with carrot, vermicelli, and eggplant. garnish with crushed peanut.

Recipe taken from printed edition of vegetariantimes.com with modification.