Start cooking this dish with slicing eggplant. Peel the eggplants and cut them in half. Each part is cut into three more parts.
Then each resulting part is cut into four bars.
Sprinkle the chopped eggplants with salt and leave them for a couple of hours, periodically draining the resulting liquid.
Put the eggplants on a towel, you need to blot the excess liquid.
Then roll each bar in corn starch (if there is no such thing, then you can take potato).
Fry the eggplant sticks in vegetable oil.
Prepare the vegetables. Chop the pepper coarsely, carrots - in half rings, garlic and ginger chop with a knife.
Put the chopped garlic and ginger in a frying pan with preheated vegetable oil, warm up for one minute, stirring constantly, add the carrots.
Add the bell pepper, mix everything and fry for a few minutes. I like the vegetables to stay a little crispy.
Prepare the sauce. Mix cold water, starch, soy sauce Kikkoman, sugar, vinegar, ketchup in a bowl (you can take tomato paste 1 tablespoon each), mix everything.
Pour the sauce into the pan with the vegetables and mix. As soon as the sauce thickens, turn off the heat.
Add the eggplant and mix everything together.
Eggplant with vegetables in sweet and sour sauce is ready.