Eggplant Bacon

I love bacon. I live in a Muslim country. Guess what that means? That's right - no bacon! It's hard to find and prohibitively expensive. Sometimes my mom sends me some packages of pre-cooked bacon but lately I've had a problem of packages not arriving, so scratch THAT idea.

I've seen some raw eggplant bacon recipes on a couple of vegan recipe sites, so I decided to give it a whirl. I don't have a dehydrator and I don't give a shit if my food is raw or cooked (unless it's meat, of course), so I decided to make my own version, as usual.

We have long, skinny eggplants here, not like the corpulent, football-shaped ones in the U.S., but those will also do.

What I did:

sliced 1 eggplant into thin strips, lengthwise (use a veggie peeler if you can)
Fried until crispy on both sides

Then I mixed:
1 tablespoon (an actual tablespoon, not a measuring spoon) of brown sugar
1 tablespoon soy sauce
1 teaspoon sesame oil
1/2 cap full of liquid smoke

I coated the crispy eggplant slices and let them glaze. Oh my gods. Gooooood! Try it try it try it!

Have a happy Saturday!