Laotian Fried Rice

• 1/4 cup oil
• 3 garlic cloves, minced
• 1/2 cup eggplant, cut into 1/2 coins
• 1/3 cup green beans, minced
• 1/2 cup red onion, minced
• 1/3 cup bamboo shoot, minced
• 1/3 cup mushroom, minced, oyster if you got em
• 2 cups rice, cooked
• 2 tablespoons soy sauce
• 2 tablespoons oyster sauce
• 2 tablespoons chili paste
• garnish
• 2 tomatoes, sliced roma
• 1 cucumber, peeled, sliced in jagged spears

1. oil 6 deep coffee cups or rice bowls.
2. put slice of tomato in bottom of each
3. heat oil
4. stir fry garlic add green beans right away.
5. add eggplant.
6. add rest of veggies stirring fast
7. add rice add paste.
8. add rice.
9. add sauces.
10. toss to coat
11. pack into bowl press down,go to lip of bowl ,packing tight.
12. invert on plate alternate tomatoes and cucumbers so its like sitting on tomatoes and spears coming from circle.

oil, garlic, eggplant, green beans, red onion, bamboo shoot, mushroom, rice, soy sauce, oyster sauce, chili paste, tomatoes, cucumber

Taken from www.food.com/recipe/laotian-fried-rice-503293 (may not work)