Oriental cuisine fascinates with its unusual flavors created from available products. Chinese eggplant is exactly the dish that should be prepared in order to understand why this vegetable is so loved in the heavenly country.

Delicious appetizer in batter

Many products acquire a new taste when cooked in batter. Eggplant is no exception. A special recipe for batter brings its exotic zest.

 

Ingredients for cooking:

  • two eggplants;
  • two carrots;
  • half of the onion;
  • one egg white;
  • one tablespoon of sugar and soy sauce;
  • a teaspoon of starch;
  • four cloves of garlic;
  • sunflower oil for frying.

Perform step by step:

  1. Cut eggplant into small pieces, mix with batter.
  2. To prepare the batter, mix the starch and soy sauce in the protein.
  3. Fry onions in sunflower oil until golden brown, add carrots, then add eggplant in batter.
  4. Stew vegetables under the lid for half an hour, add finely chopped garlic five minutes before being ready.

For lovers of savory snacks, you can add rice vinegar, mustard or mustard oil.

With chicken and tomatoes

Eggplant with meat will be appreciated by lovers of more satisfying snacks.

The list of products for cooking:

  • 200 g chicken;
  • 3-4 medium-sized eggplant;
  • 3 tomatoes;
  • 2 bell peppers;
  • 50 g of sugar, soy sauce, vinegar and water;
  • 1 tsp starch;
  • 2 small cloves of garlic.

Cooking method:

  1. Make boats of eggplant, cut them along the fruits and separate the pulp.
  2. For the filling, fry the chopped pulp, tomatoes, peppers, chicken and garlic.
  3. Make the sauce from the rest of the ingredients by simply mixing them together.
  4. Fill the boats with the filling, put in a deep frying pan for stewing, pour the prepared sauce, simmer for 30-40 minutes until completely cooked. Https: //www.youtube.com/watch? V = xPtivzbArBs

To create a more exotic taste, it is recommended to use rice, wine or apple vinegar.

With pork in sweet and sour sauce

When cooking eggplant in Chinese with pork in sweet and sour sauce, the dish will be hearty. Ingredients that give a pronounced sour and sweet taste are specially selected for the sauce, this makes the finished dish especially piquant.

 

Ingredients:

  • meat - 250 g;
  • eggplant - 300 g;
  • Bulgarian pepper - 100 g;
  • garlic - 2-3 cloves;
  • ginger powder - 20 g;
  • soy sauce - 60 g;
  • potato starch - 20 g;
  • sugar - 50 g;
  • honey - 20 g;
  • water - 100-150 g;
  • rice or wine vinegar - 60 g.

Perform step by step:

  1. Finely chop the pork, add soy sauce for at least 10 minutes, add part of the starch, mix everything.
  2. Dice the eggplant.
  3. Fry finely chopped garlic and pepper in a pan, add eggplant, meat, season with ginger and fry all together again.
  4. To prepare the sauce, mix all the remaining ingredients, mix and pour the meat with vegetables. Put out another 5-10 minutes.

Honey gives the sauce a sweet taste. If there is an allergy to beekeeping products, you can replace it with caramel, the taste of the finished dish from this will only become sweeter and more aromatic.

With bell pepper

And bell pepper and eggplant are very healthy and tasty vegetables, in one dish they reveal their qualities to 100%.

To prepare this dish you will need:

  • 2 eggplants;
  • 3 peppers;
  • 1 tbsp. l potato starch;
  • 4 tbsp. l soy sauce;
  • 2 tbsp. l Sahara.

Perform step by step:

  1. Wash vegetables, remove inedible parts, cut into slices.
  2. First fry the eggplant in vegetable oil, then add pepper to them.
  3. Dilute starch in a small amount of water, add sauce, sugar, mix, pour the resulting suspension into vegetables.
  4. Stew the ingredients until the sauce thickens.

The special taste of the dish with minimal costs for food and cooking will not leave indifferent any hostess.

Chinese fried eggplant

No less tasty are eggplant in Chinese with potatoes. In China, they are sold both in restaurants and from street stalls. The dish is very popular due to the quick saturation of the body with energy. It became no less popular in Russia. Of course, the recipe is slightly different from the true Chinese, but it is it that is adapted to our Russian taste.

 

The list of ingredients:

  • eggplant - 2 pcs.;
  • potatoes - 4 pcs.;
  • pepper - 2 pcs.;
  • carrots - 1 pc.;
  • garlic - 4 pcs.;
  • starch and tomato paste for 1 tbsp. l .;
  • rice vinegar (you can take any) - no more than 2 tablespoons;
  • glass of water;
  • optionally greens, salt, pepper and other spices;
  • vegetable oil.

When using bell peppers of different colors, for example yellow and red, the dish takes on a more beautiful appearance.

Perform step by step:

  1. Cut washed eggplant, sprinkle with salt and mix. Leave on for at least 20 minutes to soften vegetables.
  2. Peel the potatoes, cut into thick slices.
  3. In a deep frying pan (a cauldron is ideal), heat the vegetable oil and fry the potatoes until golden brown. Put slices on a napkin to remove excess oil, add a little salt.
  4. Cut the onion into large pieces, fry until golden brown.
  5. Squeeze the eggplant from the allocated juice, fry until half-cooked, add chopped carrots (the slices should be medium in size, closer to large).
  6. When the golden color of vegetables appears, add finely chopped garlic and let stand for another 60 seconds.
  7. Add potatoes and sweet peppers, salt, add spices and spices to taste. Put out 60 seconds.
  8. Prepare the sauce in advance, for this, dilute the starch in water, add vinegar, tomato paste and soy sauce. Stand for at least 3 minutes.
  9. Pour the cooked sauce into a pan with all vegetables and simmer until it thickens.

This dish does not require additional preparation of the side dish and can be served as an independent dish.

Starch Recipe

The recipe is somewhat reminiscent of cooking eggplant in batter.

For cooking you will need:

  • one large eggplant;
  • one sweet red bell pepper;
  • two medium-sized cucumbers;
  • one onion;
  • two chicken eggs;
  • ginger root, powder can be used;
  • 2.5 tbsp. l starch and tomato paste;
  • 80 g of soy sauce;
  • three cloves of garlic;
  • 1 tbsp. l Sahara;
  • sunflower oil;
  • add salt, paprika and black pepper, as well as other spices to taste.

Perform step by step:

  1. Wash, peel and cut eggplants with plates no more than 3 mm thick. To soften for half an hour, add salted water.
  2. Drain the water, mix the pieces with chicken eggs, paprika, salt, starch (no more than 2 tbsp. L.) And half the declared amount of soy sauce. Leave on for 5 minutes.
  3. Heat sunflower oil in a pan and fry the eggplants, laying them out one at a time. Fry until golden, crunchy eggplant to remove excess oil put on a sieve or paper towel.
  4. Wash the bell pepper, remove the inedible parts, cut into 2x2 cm cubes, chop the onion of a similar shape. Fry vegetables in hot oil, sprinkle with grated ginger, salt and spices. Add tomato paste without reducing heat, evaporate excess moisture.
  5. Wash the cucumbers, finely chop into cubes, add to the pan and simmer with vegetables. After boiling, add the fried eggplant and simmer for another 2 minutes. The dish is ready.

Despite the large number of ingredients, the dish is prepared very quickly, it turns out delicious and nutritious. Try it, loved ones will appreciate the culinary skills at the highest level.

Any Chinese-style eggplant is suitable for cooking in everyday life, and for special occasions there is always an unusual recipe. Do not be afraid to experiment, find your favorite eggplant in Chinese.

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