Chili Fried Rice (with Quinoa)

Ingredients:

·      500g Dried Quinoa

·      3 medium eggplant (~1kg)

·      10-12 red chillies

·      8 cloves garlic

·      2 small onions

·      10 shallots

·      120g shortcut bacon

·      2 Tbsp grapeseed oil

·      2 Tsp fish sauce

Directions:

1. Cook quinoa according to package directions.

2. Fry eggplant with 1 Tbsp grapeseed oil.  Set aside.

3. Use food processor to combine onion, garlic, and chillies.  Fry in a pan until it is a bright orange color (~10 mins). Set aside.

4. Fry the finely chopped white parts of shallots with bacon chopped into ½ cm pieces with 1 Tbsp grapeseed oil. 

5. Add eggplant, chili, onion, garlic, and quinoa. Stir in 3cm long green parts of shallots.

6. Cook an additional 5 minutes.