Chinese Vegetarian Recipes

Eggplant Recipes – Fried Eggplant Seasoned with Caraway

Fried Eggplant Recipe

Introduction to the fried eggplant seasoned with caraway:

*If you have ever cooked eggplant for even once, you will know that eggplant eats oil. It seems that it will never get enough of oil. At the tips part, I am going to share some simple tips that can deal with this frustrating issue.

Eggplant is the vegetable that my girlfriend loves the best. Therefore, I have to learn some eggplant recipes. LOL. Actually, I don’t love it specifically because of the softness of the cooked ones. But eggplant is indispensable from the Chinese vegetarian recipes.

In Chinese, this eggplant recipe that I am introducing to you is named literally as eggplant with “strange flavor” (because of the caraway) instead of the fried eggplant with caraway. This is more of the western style. Anyway, this website is designed for westerners, after all.

Ingredients:

Eggplant: 300 g

Seasonings:

Peppercorn Powder: 2 g

Caraway: 50 g

White sugar: 10 g

Vinegar: 10 g

Soy sauce: 15 g

Sesame oil: 15 g

MSG: 3 g

Scallion shreds: 4 g

Finely minced ginger: 4 g

Mashed garlic: 4 g

Dried red chili pepper: 4 g

Vegetable oil: 30 g

Cooking Steps:

1. Rinse the eggplants clean;

2. Chop the cleaned eggplants into strips;

3. Pour the vegetable oil into the wok;

4. Put the wok on high heat;

5. Drop the eggplant strips into the wok when the oil gets 70% hot;

6. Strain the eggplant strips out of the oil when they are done;

7. Leave some oil back in the wok with the high heat on;

8. Drop the dried red chili peppers into the preheated oil;

9. Add in the scallion shreds, minced ginger, mashed garlic, vinegar, white sugar, sesame oil and soy sauce and stir them quickly when the chili peppers sets off their flavor;

10. When the seasoning liquid boils and bubbles, pour it onto the fired eggplant strips;

11. Add the MSG, peppercorn powder and caraway into the seasoned eggplant strips;

12. Stir fully.

Cooking Tips:

How to prevent the eggplant from “eating” oil in cooking eggplant recipes? Too much oil will not do much good to our health. There are two ways to deal with it.

Firstly, fry the eggplant strips without oil on low heat. When the moisture contained in the eggplant is evaporated and the meat of the eggplant is softened, oil is then used for cooking.

Secondly, blend the eggplant strips with salt and leave it for sometime until the moisture in the eggplant come out. Then squeeze the strips before starting to cook.

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