Can be cooked different ways. But the Chinese know how to make it incredibly tasty.
The dishes turn out very aromatic, bright, with mysterious notes. They can be prepared at home, all the ingredients are available, the technology is transparent, and it takes little time.
Chinese-style eggplant with meat - general cooking principles
Eggplants for dishes are always cut into large strips or strips. The longer they turn out, the more beautiful the dish will be. Vegetables are soaked in salt, washed, squeezed, fried together with other ingredients or separately.
Most often, pork is used for the dish. But there are recipes with other types of meat or poultry. The product is also cut into strips and fried. Sometimes it is pre-marinated.
What is the sauce made from:
Soy sauce;
Tomato paste;
The exact set of ingredients depends on the recipe. There is not much sauce added to the dish. Some recipes call for it to be evaporated. There is only a fragrant glaze on the pieces of meat and vegetables, making the dish unusual.
Traditional Chinese eggplant with meat
The most famous (one might say classic) recipe for making Chinese eggplant with meat. Naturally, in traditional version Pork is used.
Ingredients
0.7 kg of meat;
2 eggplants;
70 g rice or apple cider vinegar;
1 carrot;
120 ml soy sauce;
1 tsp. sesame;
1 onion;
1 yellow pepper Bulgarian;
2 tbsp. l. Sahara;
3 tsp. flour;
Oil (how much will be needed).
Preparation
1. Cut the pork into strips, place in a frying pan with heated oil, and fry until almost done.
2. Cut the onion, yellow pepper and carrot into strips, add to the pork, continue frying the meat with vegetables.
3. Cut the eggplants into strips too, but fry them in a different frying pan.
4. Combine the meat with fried eggplant strips.
5. Mix soy sauce with flour apple cider vinegar, sugar. Pour into a dish.
6. Stir the sauce well with the vegetables and pork, heat for a few minutes until it thickens.
7. Serve the meat with eggplants on its own or with the addition of boiled rice.
Quick eggplant with meat in Chinese style
A recipe for simple and quick to prepare eggplant with meat, Chinese style. Everything will take no more than 20 minutes. For the dish you will need one chili pod. If you don't like it very much spicy dishes, then use half the pepper.
Ingredients
0.3 kg pork pulp;
2 eggplants;
1 carrot;
Chili pod;
2 tbsp. l. sugar (brown);
3 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
2 cloves of garlic.
Preparation
1. Chop the pork into long but thin strips, place the oil in a frying pan with a heated spoon, fry until Brown.
2. In another frying pan with oil, fry the eggplants cut into long strips. Three minutes is enough. We take it out.
3. Add oil to the frying pan after the eggplants, add chopped carrots and garlic, fry for a couple of minutes, add chopped hot peppers.
4. Return the eggplants, after another minute add the pork fried in another frying pan.
5. Combine soy sauce with water (3 spoons) and brown sugar, stir thoroughly, pour into the frying pan.
6. Fry the eggplants with meat, stirring constantly, for about five minutes, until the sauce has evaporated.
7. If there is little soy sauce and the dish is unsalted, you can add additional spices.
Eggplant with Chinese meat and eggs
Interesting recipe cooking meat in Chinese style with pre-marinating pork in egg whites. The yolks are not useful; they can be used for any other dishes.
Ingredients
0.5 kg pork;
6 cloves of garlic;
3 eggplants;
3 carrots;
8 spoons of sauce (soy);
1 spoon of sugar;
1 spoon of tomato paste;
1 spoon of 6% vinegar;
2 sweet peppers;
30 g starch.
Preparation
1. Whisk four tablespoons of soy sauce with raw proteins from two eggs.
2. Cut the meat into medium strips, pour in the prepared mixture, stir and let the pork marinate for at least 20 minutes. You can stand it longer.
3. Heat about three tablespoons of oil in a frying pan.
4. Peel the garlic, cut the cloves in half, fry in oil for thirty seconds. Remove the pieces.
5. B garlic oil Place the carrots cut into strips and large strips of pepper. Fry.
6. Add eggplants cut into strips. It is important not to stir them frequently so as not to damage the integrity of the pieces. Brown.
7. Heat oil in another frying pan. Remove pork from bowl, shake off drippings, sprinkle with starch, and transfer to skillet. Fry until golden brown crust.
8. Combine vegetables with meat, stir gently.
9. Mix the remaining soy sauce, a spoonful of starch, tomato paste and 200 ml of water. Season with prescription vinegar.
10. Pour it out tomato sauce into the dish. Stir gently. In less than a minute the sauce will thicken, it's time to turn off the stove!
Eggplant with Chinese meat in sweet and sour sauce
A variation of a very tasty dish with an amazing sweet and sour sauce. Pork is used by default, and only a little is used.
Ingredients
200 g meat;
400 g eggplants;
80 g sweet pepper;
60 g sugar;
40 g butter;
40 g starch;
50 ml soy sauce;
50 ml water;
20 g ginger;
20 g garlic;
60 g rice vinegar.
Preparation
1. Pork should be cut into thin and long strips, sprinkled with a spoon of soy sauce, and left for half an hour.
2. Add a spoonful of starch to the pork and stir. Place in a frying pan and fry the pieces until golden brown. Place in a bowl for a while.
3. Remove the pork, add oil and chopped garlic into several pieces. After a minute, the pieces need to be removed.
4. Place the cut into long strips into the frying pan. bell pepper.
5. After a minute, add the eggplants cut into strips. Fry for two minutes.
6. Return the fried pork to the pan and stir. Season with chopped ginger and continue frying everything together.
7. Combine sauce ingredients: rice vinegar, remaining starch, water and granulated sugar. Add soy sauce.
8. Pour the resulting mixture over the vegetables and meat, stir, and reduce the heat.
9. Warm up the dish for a couple of minutes. If necessary, add salt.
Eggplant with Chinese meat (chicken)
No meat? Eggplant can also be cooked with chicken. Of course, the taste of this dish will be different, and so will the technology. Fillet is used, the weight is indicated in the recipe pure product without skin.
It is better to use wine vinegar for poultry. But you can also take apple one.
Ingredients
800 g eggplants;
800 g chicken fillet;
1 spoon of grated fresh ginger root;
Garlic clove;
Spoon of sesame seeds;
Spoon of starch;
3 spoons of sugar;
A pinch of red pepper;
60 ml wine vinegar;
80 ml soy sauce.
Preparation
1. The fillet needs to be cut into strips, the thickness of the pieces is up to one centimeter. Fry in several stages in a frying pan, keep the heat high.
2. Remove the chicken for a while and cut it in the same way fresh eggplants. Fry in several stages until golden brown.
3. Return the chicken to the eggplant. Use large frying pan or cauldron.
4. Add a grated clove of garlic and a spoonful of chopped ginger, heat to enhance the aroma.
5. Connect vinegar with soy sauce, sugar, a spoonful of starch and hot pepper.
6. Pour sauce over the dish, stir, cook until all the liquid from the bottom of the vessel has evaporated.
7. Sesame seeds need to be fried separately. Place in a dry frying pan and cook over medium heat until golden brown.
8. When serving, a Chinese dish needs to be sprinkled toasted sesame seeds.
Eggplant with Chinese meat (beef)
Unusual recipe Chinese dish, since beef is used extremely rarely for it. To make the meat soft and juicy, it must be marinated in advance.
Ingredients
400 g beef;
3 eggplants;
2 carrots;
100 ml soy sauce;
200 ml tomato juice;
70 ml oil;
40 g sugar;
0.5 tsp. dry ginger;
1 tsp. vinegar;
Hot pepper pod.
Preparation
1. Rinse the beef. Then the meat needs to be cut into half-centimeter slices, and the fibers should be lightly beaten with a hammer. The finished pieces are striped into strips.
2. Add half the soy sauce to the beef and leave for two hours.
3. Grate the carrots on a Korean grater. Add a pinch of salt and vinegar to it and remember well with your hands. Leave to marinate.
4. Pour a little oil into a large frying pan and fry the eggplants cut into strips. Remove it.
5. Add more oil, fry the marinated beef, add carrots to it, cook for another three minutes.
6. Place the eggplants in a dish, stir gently, and heat everything together over low heat.
7. Grind hot pepper, mix with soy sauce and tomato juice, season with sugar and dried ginger.
8. Add the sauce to the dish, cook after the liquid boils for a couple of minutes, let the meat brew.
In order for the eggplant pieces to retain their shape, when frying the vegetables do not need to be stirred often, they are cooked over high heat, and the skin is not removed under any circumstances. Read how to peel eggplants here.
For Chinese dishes Rice vinegar is often used. But you can always replace it with wine, apple or regular table product. The main thing is not to pour too much. Focus on your taste.
Soy sauce is salty, but not always. If there are few spices in the dish, then feel free to add additional salt. If the meat turns out to be over-salted, then it can be poured with tomato juice or diluted paste. Bell pepper dilutes the dish well. Fry the vegetable strips separately and add to the meat.
Vegetable season is in full swing. Bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, tomatoes, what’s not in your favorite garden?! Today we will talk about one thing interesting vegetable, which appeared in European cuisine only in the 19th century. This is an eggplant.
We can talk about the benefits of this vegetable for a very long time. Despite the presence of fiber, organic acids, and a classic set of vitamins, eggplant can “boast” of potassium, calcium, and phosphorus salts in its composition. Cobalt, aluminum, copper, zinc - all these components have a beneficial effect on the functioning of the heart, kidneys, liver and biliary tract.
The first dishes made from this vegetable appeared in Southeast Asia, India and China thousands of years ago. Today we will try to cook eggplants in Chinese, taking into account modern culinary trends.
When talking about China, rice dishes involuntarily come to mind. However, many vegetables are used in addition to it, among which eggplant comes first. This vegetable goes well with soy sauce, lime, meat and makes its taste especially unique
Chinese eggplant in sweet and sour sauce
This recipe will use honey and lemon. Pleasant aroma And spicy taste will amaze you if you cook this dish
- 4 medium sized eggplants
- Honey 6 tbsp. l
- Medium sized lemon
- Refined sunflower oil for frying eggplants and garlic
- Garlic 5 - 10 cloves (depending on taste)
- Spices (red hot pepper and coriander)
Cooking method:
Wash the eggplants and lemon, peel the garlic. We prepare the necessary products
Cut off the stems from the eggplant and cut it into strips measuring 5 mm. If the vegetables are too large, you can cut them in half. Add salt and leave for an hour. During this period they will release juice and become softer.
Let's start cooking honey-lemon sauce. Cut the garlic into pieces, approximately, cutting the clove into 5 - 6 slices. Heat a frying pan, pour a little sunflower oil and lightly fry
Transfer the roasted garlic to a plate. Do not pour out the remaining oil; it can be used when frying eggplants.
Squeeze lemon juice. For convenience, you can “roll” the lemon on the table, lightly pressing it with your palm. Cut and squeeze the juice into a bowl
Heat honey in a saucepan. Add lemon juice and mix well
Bring to a boil. The kitchen reigns nice smell lemon, and the color of the sauce becomes caramel. Add fried garlic, coriander, pepper. The sauce is ready.
Let's get to the eggplants. Squeeze and fry in a frying pan. The color should be golden
Take a container and add the fried vegetables, pour spicy sauce. Let it cool. During this time, they will become saturated with the taste of honey, lemon and spices.
Try to prepare a dish according to this recipe, treat yourself and your loved ones unusual taste regular vegetable
Delicious Chinese eggplant in starch
- Medium or large eggplant 1 pc.
- Bell pepper (preferably red) 1 pc.
- Cucumber 2 pcs.
- Onion 1 pc.
- Ginger root 50 – 70 g
- Starch 2 tbsp. l + 1 tsp.
- Soy sauce 4 tbsp. l
- Garlic 2-3 cloves
- Tomato paste 2 tbsp. l
- Sugar 1 tbsp. l
- Ground paprika (to taste)
- Sunflower oil
Preparation:
Cooking eggplants. Remove the skin and cut into half rings about 2-3 mm in size. Fill with salt water and set aside. After 20-30 minutes, drain the resulting liquid.
In a bowl, mix eggplants, eggs, pepper, salt, starch (2 tbsp.), soy sauce (2 tbsp.)
Mix well. Marinate the eggplant pieces in the resulting batter for about 5 minutes. Heat the frying pan, pour sunflower oil and lay out one piece of eggplant at a time.
Fry until golden color, place on paper napkins (to remove oil)
Wash the pepper, remove the seeds and membranes, cut into pieces 2x2 cm, cut the onion into large pieces. Heat sunflower oil in a frying pan and add chopped vegetables. Add grated ginger, ground black pepper, salt
Bring until golden brown, add tomato paste. It is advisable that the vegetables do not lose their vegetable crunch. The heat under the frying pan should be high, evaporate the excess liquid. Add garlic, passed through a press, sugar, soy sauce (2 tbsp.), starch (1 tsp.)
Cut the peeled cucumber into cubes and place in a frying pan.
After the vegetables boil, add the eggplants and simmer for about 2 minutes. Even though the recipe has a lot of ingredients, give this dish a try. Chinese cuisine. And you will definitely receive gratitude from your loved ones
Recipe for Chinese eggplant in caramel
- Medium size onion 2 pcs.
- Garlic 5-7 cloves
- Ginger 70 g
- Lime 0.5 pcs.
- Grape syrup 50 ml
- Soy sauce 2-3 tbsp. l (without salt)
Preparation:
Wash the eggplants, onions and garlic under running water and cut into cubes. Cut the ginger root into as thin slices as possible, chop the red pepper with a knife.
Place in a frying pan with hot oil and lightly fry
Add grape syrup, soy sauce, lime juice. We do everything over high heat, stirring occasionally. Some of the liquid should evaporate
Add prepared vegetables
Fry until golden brown. Stir every 2-3 minutes so that the vegetables have time to steam well in the caramel. Salt the dish to taste
As a result instant cooking you get a dish of extraordinary taste and aroma
The most delicious Chinese eggplants - a quick recipe with minced meat
Chinese cuisine loves the combination of meat and vegetables. Now let's try to cook eggplants with meat. In a few minutes you will get delicious and hearty dish
- Medium size eggplant 2 pcs.
- Minced meat 400-500 g
- Soy sauce 5 tbsp. l
- Apple cider vinegar 2 tbsp. l
- Sugar 2 tbsp. l
- Starch 2 tbsp. l
- Peeled ginger root 50 g
- Red hot pepper 1 pc. (small)
- Bunch of green onions
- Tomato paste 2-3 tbsp. l
- Garlic 5 cloves
Preparation:
Wash the eggplants, do not peel the outer skin. Cut into cubes and place in salted water for 20 minutes. Wring it out well
Prepare the necessary ingredients
Fry the chopped vegetables in a frying pan until golden brown.
Fry chopped meat. It can be selected according to preference or availability in the refrigerator
Add eggplant and all prepared ingredients to the minced meat. Simmer everything well for 10 minutes.
We get a tasty and satisfying dish. If you busy man– this dish with a Chinese flavor is just for you. Try it and see for yourself
Eggplant with potatoes and sweet peppers in Chinese style
- 3 medium sized eggplants
- Sweet pepper 2 pieces
- Medium size potatoes 3 pieces
- Parsley
- Black vinegar 1 tbsp. l
- Soy sauce 2 tbsp. l
- Corn starch 2 tsp
- Sesame oil 1 tsp
- Chicken seasoning 0.5 tsp
- Sugar 1 tbsp. l
- Garlic 2 cloves
- Ginger root 50 g
- 1 medium sized onion
Preparation:
Peel the potatoes and eggplants. Cut into pieces of any size. Chop onion, garlic and ginger root
Soak eggplants in salt water. Let stand for about 1 hour. Drain the liquid and cover them with starch. This must be done so that the eggplants do not absorb a lot of sunflower oil when frying.
Pour 200 g of oil into a well-heated frying pan and fry the potatoes. Remove with a slotted spoon
We do the same process with eggplants and peppers.
Fry onion, garlic, ginger in a frying pan. Add vegetables, simmer for 1-2 minutes to combine flavors
Add sugar, chicken seasoning, soy sauce, vinegar and starch (2 tsp diluted with a small amount water), sesame oil. Simmer for 3 minutes.
Our dish is ready. Bon appetit!
The most delicious Chinese eggplant and meat recipe
- Minced meat 200 g
- 2 eggs (1 for minced meat, 1 for batter)
- Eggplant 1 piece
- A small bunch of green onions
- Ginger root (grated) 1 tsp
- Soy sauce 1 tsp
- Chicken seasoning 1 tsp
- White ground pepper 0.5 tsp
- Sesame oil 1 tbsp. l
- Sunflower oil for frying
- Flour 2 tbsp. l
- Starch 0.5 tsp
Preparation:
Prepare minced meat, add 1 egg, soy sauce, sesame oil, chicken seasoning and ground white pepper, salt, starch
Mix well. We cut the eggplants into rings, while cutting them to the end after one. The shape resembles a shell. Stuffing, trying not to break the “shells”
Prepare the batter. In a small bowl, mix flour, salt, egg. Add a little water until the batter has the consistency of sour cream.
Heat the sunflower oil, dip the eggplants in the batter and fry over medium heat. Batter in this recipe This is used to prevent the eggplant from absorbing too much oil. Fry until golden brown
Let it cool down a little and pamper yourself delicious dish from the Middle Kingdom
Video recipe for Chinese eggplant from chef Ilya Lazerson
Oriental dishes fascinate with their indescribable taste. Original treats If desired, you can easily prepare it at home. For example, such an exotic dish as Chinese eggplants, which are unusual and will be remembered for their bright taste.
How to cook eggplant in Chinese?
For housewives who have decided to learn how to prepare eggplants in Chinese, the most delicious recipe is selected based on individual preferences. When preparing them, take into account the following points:
- To make the dish aesthetically beautiful, the eggplants are cut into large strips. They need to be sprinkled with salt, stirred until the juice appears and left for 15 minutes to get rid of the characteristic bitterness. Then they are fried in a frying pan.
- Ingredients for the sauce vary based on the recipe and the preferences of the cook, often using: garlic, tomato paste, sugar, soy sauce, ginger, vinegar.
- You should avoid adding too much sauce to your dish and, in some cases, even evaporate it.
Chinese eggplant in sweet and sour sauce
A dish that is eaten in no time is Chinese eggplant in soy sauce. The ingredients for the sauce are selected so that it has a pronounced sweet and sour flavor, which gives the dish a special piquancy. The dish is served both cold and hot; its preparation takes very little time.
Ingredients:
- eggplants – 2 pcs.;
- Bell pepper- 2 pcs.;
- garlic – 2 cloves.
For the sauce:
- water – 250 ml;
- ginger – 1 tsp;
- soy sauce – 40 ml;
- vinegar;
- honey - 1 tbsp. l.;
- starch powder - 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation
- Cut the eggplants into cubes 1 cm thick. Cut the peppers into strips.
- Fry the eggplants and peppers separately.
- Make the sauce by mixing the ingredients for it, pour in water at the end, add starch powder.
- Pour the sauce over the Chinese eggplants and simmer for about 5-7 minutes.
Pork with eggplant, Chinese style
A slightly modified version of the classic recipe is Chinese eggplant with meat. Pork is used as a new component; it did not spoil the taste of the dish at all, but only gave it spicy twist. The recipe will be especially appreciated by housewives who want a hearty and nutritious meal.
Ingredients:
- pork – 200 g;
- eggplants – 400 g;
- sweet pepper – 80 g;
- sugar – 60 g;
- starch – 2 tsp;
- soy sauce – 50 ml;
- water – 50 ml;
- ginger – 20 g;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- rice vinegar – 60 g.
Preparation
- Soak the pork in soy sauce and leave for 10 minutes. Add half the starch and mix.
- Fry the garlic, add pepper and eggplant.
- Add the meat, mix and season with ginger, fry everything together again.
- Prepare the sauce by combining vinegar, the remaining starch, water and sugar, and soy sauce. Pour it over the Chinese eggplants, stir and simmer over low heat.
Chicken with eggplant in Chinese style
Pork is not the only type of meat that goes well with blues. Instead, you can take chicken and cook eggplants, stuffed with meat in Chinese. In this case, boats or circles are made and filled with filling. It is best to use chicken fillet, and use wine or apple vinegar.
Ingredients:
- chicken – 200 g;
- eggplants – 400 g;
- sweet pepper – 80 g;
- sugar – 60 g;
- starch – 1 tsp;
- soy sauce – 50 ml;
- water – 50 ml;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- vinegar – 60 g.
Preparation
- Cut the eggplants into boats.
- Make the filling by frying the chicken, pepper, eggplant pulp and garlic. Fill the boats with the mixture.
- Make a sauce from vinegar, starch, water, sugar, sauce. Pour it over Chinese stuffed eggplants and simmer until done.
Eggplant in Chinese batter
Will instantly become one of your favorite dishes thanks to its incredible taste in Chinese in batter. To prepare the batter, use whipped egg whites, starch and soy sauce. Thanks to the last component, the dish acquires a rich hue. For those who like it spicy, you can add rice vinegar and mustard oil.
Ingredients:
- eggplants – 2 pcs.;
- carrots – 2 pcs.;
- onion – 0.5 pcs.;
- sugar – 1 tbsp. l.;
- protein – 1 pc.;
- garlic – 4 cloves;
- starch – 1 tsp;
- soy sauce – 1 tbsp. l.
Preparation
- Make a batter from protein, starch and sauce. Stir and pour the mixture over the eggplants.
- Fry onions with carrots, and then eggplants with batter.
- Vegetables are stewed for about 25 minutes, garlic is added at the end.
Potatoes with eggplants in Chinese style
Extremely tasty option, created for dinner in just an hour and a half, is Chinese. The dish can be called vegetarian, since it does not include meat, but at the same time it is extremely satisfying and high-calorie. Vegetables are served hot, only after removing them from the stove, they can be decorated with herbs.
Ingredients:
- eggplants – 2 pcs.;
- potatoes – 3 pcs.;
- sweet pepper – 3 pcs.;
- starch - 1 tbsp. l.;
- soy sauce – 80 ml;
- sugar – 30 g.
Preparation
- The vegetables are chopped, the potatoes are fried, and then the eggplants, but until half cooked. Then add pepper.
- Pour the sauce into the vegetables, add sand and salt. Products are poured with starch diluted in water.
- After the sauce has thickened, remove the Chinese-style eggplant from the heat.
Eggplant with Chinese minced meat
Just as simply as the dishes according to previous recipes, spicy Chinese eggplants combined with minced meat are created. Housewives prefer to use pork and beef, taken in equal proportions, to prepare it. The dressing made from soy sauce gives a special piquancy. sesame oil and spices.
Ingredients:
- eggplants – 2 pcs.;
- minced meat – 300 g;
- soy sauce – 1 tbsp. l.;
- sesame oil – 1 tsp;
- garlic – 1 clove;
- flour - 3 tbsp. l.;
- egg – 1 pc.
Preparation
- Make barrels out of eggplants by cutting out the middle. Fill them with minced meat.
- Make a batter from eggs and flour, dip the eggplants in it.
- Fry the crispy Chinese eggplant on both sides.
Eggplant with Chinese pepper
There are many variations of recipes to help you cook in Chinese. As additional ingredient Sweet peppers are very common and are present in almost every recipe. Even if you cook eggplants and peppers together without the other ingredients, you get a real combination.
Ingredients:
- eggplants – 2 pcs.;
- sweet pepper – 3 pcs.;
- starch - 1 tbsp. l.;
- soy sauce – 80 ml;
- sugar – 2 tbsp. l.
Preparation
- Chop the vegetables, fry the eggplants, then add the pepper.
- Pour in the sauce, add sugar, add starch diluted in water.
- Chinese braised eggplant is ready after the sauce has thickened.
Chinese caramelized eggplant
Very an extraordinary recipe are eggplants in caramel sauce in Chinese. To make the dressing, use ingredients according to individual taste: soy sauce, rice vinegar, ginger, spices, honey, lemon juice. Each eggplant should be left to soak in caramel, after which they are fried, turning on all sides in a frying pan, and served with a little more caramel sauce.
Ingredients:
- eggplant – 1 pc.;
- soy sauce – 3 tbsp. l.;
- sugar – 1 tsp;
- rice vinegar - 1 tbsp. l.;
- ginger – 2 tsp;
- spices.
Preparation
- Make the sauce by mixing all the ingredients for it.
- Slice and fry the eggplants.
- Pour the sauce into the vegetables and fry them for 3 minutes.
Chinese eggplant salad - recipe
IN summer season It is very popular with eggplants. It can be consumed both chilled and hot. The basis of the dish is eggplant and pepper, which is cut into strips. When the vegetables are fried, add chopped garlic before serving the dish. When cooking Chinese food, it is important not to overdo it with vinegar.
Chinese style eggplant- This National dish Chinese cuisine, which we will cook with potatoes and peppers classic recipe using a mixture of soy and starch sauces to season vegetables.
This oriental dish eggplant is prepared in a variety of ways: it is supplemented with meat or minced meat (from pork, beef, chicken), served as a second course, as well as beans, cabbage, tomatoes, cucumbers (in this case, the dish can be vegetable side dish); Sweet and sour, sweet caramel, spicy, and soy sauces are used for dressing.
Chinese eggplant is a common dish and its preparation at home is not difficult. We present to your attention a simple step by step recipe with photo.
KBJU and composition for the entire dish
Ingredients
Preparation
Let's prepare main ingredient- eggplants. We thoroughly wash the vegetables under running water, get rid of the tail and the tip on the other side. Slicing the eggplants in large pieces. Let's move on to potato processing. We peel it, just like the previous product, wash it and cut it into thin round pieces. Now let's deal with sweet bell peppers. Rinse the vegetables under running water. Next, cut the pepper into two identical halves, get rid of the seeds inside, as well as the stalk. Cut the pepper into medium-sized cubes so that it does not fry too much. We dilute starch in the specified amount of water. This is the base for the batter.
Take a frying pan, place it on the stove and set the heat to moderate. After waiting for the moment when the container gets hot, pour a little into it olive oil and after a while, lay out the potatoes cut into slices. Fry it until a golden crispy crust appears on the vegetable. As soon as the potatoes reach the state required for the dish, we transfer them to another bowl and set them aside for a while.
Next, place the eggplant slices in the frying pan where the potatoes were fried. After waiting for the vegetable to soften, return the fried potato slices to the container. Season the resulting mass with soy sauce, starch diluted with water. Mix well general composition and, if necessary, add salt.
Now let's move on to the garlic. Peel the vegetable head, rinse under running water and required amount pass through a garlic press. Add the chopped garlic along with the chopped bell pepper pieces to the rest of the ingredients as soon as the consistency of the starch sauce becomes thick and viscous. At the same time, turn off the heat and remove the dish from the stove. We wash the cilantro, then chop it. Sprinkle with herbs along with sesame seeds. Now the Chinese eggplants can be placed on portioned plates, serve the dish with a side dish - boiled rice or light salad . Bon appetit!
I don’t know, I’m probably one of those who belong to that million-strong army of fans of dishes with eggplants. Especially when the dish is spicy, spicy, with a sparkle.
I came across a recipe for making Chinese eggplants. I admit, I have never prepared such a dish before, so this is a debut. The impressions were only positive. The dish is so tasty and beautiful that it will now often be on our table. However, I can’t call it a quick-cooking dish; it will take time to pre-fry the eggplants in deep fat. But it's worth it.
So, to prepare eggplant in Chinese, you will need eggplant, bell pepper (preferably colored), onion, garlic and ginger. Before deep-frying, the eggplants will be dipped in a starch dough, which requires starch, the white of one egg and water. You will also need soy sauce, tomato paste and sesame oil.
The bell pepper should be cut into strips or squares, as you prefer.
Fry it together with chopped onion in vegetable oil until light golden crust. Add chopped chilies and garlic.
And a mixture of starch, water and ground ginger. Ideally, the ginger should be fresh. If you don't have it, then replace it with ground, like I do. Add tomato paste, add water and...
Simmer everything over low heat for about 7 minutes.
In a deep bowl, combine starch with the white of one egg and 5 tablespoons of water. Stir.
Dip the eggplants, pre-cut into bars, salted and squeezed, into this starch-egg mixture.
Preheat vegetable oil for deep frying and drop the eggplant slices there in batches. You should end up with deep fried eggplants like this.
All that remains is to combine the fried eggplants with the sauce. Add one spoon of sesame oil there and stir. Place everything on the fire to warm up. Some housewives say that you need to add a teaspoon of sugar. I didn’t add it, since the soy sauce itself already had added sugar.
Chinese eggplants are ready. This snack is ideal when it has already cooled down, and even better when it sits in the refrigerator.
I couldn’t resist adding this photo.
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