Hey everyone, I hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, chilled eggplant with garlic sauce. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Chilled Eggplant with Garlic Sauce is one of the most well liked of current trending meals in the world. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions every day. They’re nice and they look wonderful. Chilled Eggplant with Garlic Sauce is something that I’ve loved my whole life.
Smothered in sweet and spicy sauce, this Chinese eggplant dish is sure to please even the pickiest eater. I loved this dish and am very happy to have found it. I've craved Eggplant with Garlic sauce many times over the years and now when the craving hits I have the perfect recipe!
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook chilled eggplant with garlic sauce using 7 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Chilled Eggplant with Garlic Sauce:
- Get 3 Oriental eggplant
- Get 1 tbsp Minced garlic
- Take 2 tbsp Chopped coriander
- Take 1-2 Chili pepper
- Make ready 2 tbsp spSoy sauce paste
- Take 1 tsp Sugar
- Prepare 2 tsp Sesame oil
The eggplant is grilled until crispy and smoky, and then cooked in a rich savory garlic sauce. Eggplant with garlic sauce (Yuxiang eggplant, 鱼香茄子) is a relatively easy and extremely delicious home-cooked dish. However, it is very tricky to cook eggplant. Many people struggle to perfect it because of eggplant absorbs oil quickly and become soggy, at the same time it lost its appetizing.
Steps to make Chilled Eggplant with Garlic Sauce:
- Cut eggplant into 10cm segments, mince garlic, chop coriander and chili pepper. (if you don't like too spicy, can remove the seeds of chili pepper)
- Sauce: 2 tbsp soy sauce paste, 1 tsp sugar, 2 tsp sesame oil, 1 tbsp minced garlic, 1/2 tbsp chopped chili pepper, 2 tbsp chopped coriander.
- Pour eggplant into unheated pan, add 1 tbsp oil and 100 ml water. Roll them, make sure every eggplant segments coated with oil and water.
- Cover the lid, and cover the hole of the lid with towel.
- Turn on the heat, cook for about 4 minutes over high heat.(don't open the lid to avoid discoloration of the eggplant.
- After 4 minutes, remove the eggplant into cold or iced water immediately. Then transfer to a serving plate, chill for 30 minutes.
- Before serving, add garlic sauce on top.
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In most cases, Chinese restaurants make this Chinese eggplant with garlic sauce dish by deep frying the eggplant, resulting in very tasty, soft eggplant, but also a very oily dish. You may be familiar with the fact that any eggplant soaks up oil like a sponge (eggplant parm, anyone?). This is a quick and easy Chinese Eggplant recipe with a spicy garlic sauce that's so addictive. Plus, the eggplant pieces are so tender, they almost melt in your. Here's another popular Sichuan dish, Eggplant with Garlic Sauce.
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