How to cook eggplant?

How to make eggplant delicious?

There are many ways to cook eggplant: braised, stir-fried, brewed, steamed...etc.

Eggplants are more commonly divided into purple eggplants and white eggplants. Purple eggplants have thicker skin and are suitable for braising and brewing, while white eggplants have thin skin and tender flesh, and are suitable for steaming and frying shredded eggplants.

Eggplant is delicious no matter how you cook it, as long as you use the right method. It just depends on your personal taste.

One key point is: choosing eggplants. When you go to the market to buy eggplants, whether they are purple or white, the first thing to look at is the skin. Smooth and shiny means they are fresher. The second feeling is that if it feels firm when pinched, it means it is relatively tender. If it feels soft and feels hollow, it means the eggplant is old, so don't buy it.

Now let’s talk about how to cook eggplant in each way.

(1) Let’s talk about braised eggplant first. The most well-known eggplant dish is “eggplant with minced meat”. The basic steps of making it are:

Wash the eggplant first and then cut it into pieces. Fry the large pieces in a pan, then remove the oil and leave the bottom oil in the pan. Add minced garlic and minced meat and stir-fry together. Then pour in the fried eggplant, add light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, Season with salt, add a little boiling water, stir-fry until the soup dries up, and finally sprinkle some chopped green onion and take it out of the pot. A plate of braised "minced pork and eggplant" is ready.

(2) How to stir-fry shredded eggplant with green pepper

Choose white eggplant, wash and cut into thin strips, wash and cut the green pepper into thin strips, pour oil into the pot, and put the eggplant first Stir-fry in the pot. After it changes color and becomes raw, pour in the green peppers, season with fine salt, stir-fry over high heat and sprinkle a little chicken essence, and it's ready to serve.

(3) Stuffed eggplant? The process is more complicated. Generally, purple eggplants are used, washed and cut into sections of about one inch, and an opening is cut in the middle of each section.

Wash the pork and chop it into minced meat, add light soy sauce, fine salt, and minced ginger and stir evenly.

Use chopsticks to stuff the prepared meat filling into the eggplant segments, then coat it in flour, fry it in an oil pan until lightly browned, and then take it out.

Put light soy sauce and water starch in the pot, pour the fried eggplant segments into the stew, drain the soup and sprinkle with chopped green onion. This rich and fragrant stuffed eggplant is ready to serve.

(4) The simplest way to keep healthy with less oil is steamed eggplant.

Let’s talk about how to make “steamed eggplant”.

Choose three or four white eggplants, wash them and cut them into large sections, put them on a plate, sprinkle with a little salt, add a little lard, put them in the steamer of the rice cooker and steam them with the rice. .

Put minced garlic, light soy sauce, and oyster sauce into the wok, boil over low heat to make a sauce, and pour it on the steamed eggplant. Very simple, very fragrant and delicious.