Should I steam or boil the eggplant for salad?

Some people don’t like to eat eggplant, and always think that eggplant has a strange taste. In fact, they don’t know that this food has many health-care effects that are very beneficial to the human body. From the perspective of traditional Chinese medicine, eggplant has high medicinal value. It has the effects of treating stomach cancer, oral ulcers, fighting aging, and lowering human cholesterol levels. Many people like to eat cold-mixed eggplant. So, when making this cold dish, is it better to steam or boil the eggplant?

1. Should I steam or boil the eggplant for salad?

Cold steamed eggplant is a dish, also known as steamed eggplant and cucumber. The main ingredients are eggplant, green and red peppers, etc. It has the effects of lowering blood pressure, lowering cholesterol, reducing swelling and relieving pain, and treating cold and heat. The eggplant for cold steamed eggplant salad needs to be steamed. You can cut it into several strips before steaming. Steam the long strips of eggplant for about 20 minutes until they are soft.

2. How to make cold eggplant

Ingredients: 1 eggplant, 1 green and red pepper, garlic, and sesame seeds.

practice

1. Wash the eggplant, remove the stem, cut it in half, and steam it in a steamer (I use an electric rice cooker, which comes with a steaming rack)

2. While steaming the eggplant, chop the green and red peppers and mince the garlic (if you can mash the garlic, it will be better); take another small bowl, mix 2 spoons of soy sauce, 2 spoons of chili sauce, and 1 spoon of sesame oil into sauce; after the eggplant is steamed, let it cool in a ventilated place (if you are not afraid of getting burned, just ignore what I said), and cut it into thin strips after it cools down;

3. Add appropriate amount of oil to the pot, add chopped green and red pepper, minced garlic and sesame seeds and stir-fry slightly. Turn off the heat after the aroma comes out, pour in the sauce just prepared, stir evenly with the residual heat, and then mix with the eggplant shreds.

3. Tips on eggplant diet

1. About selection: There is a circle of light-colored ring where the eggplant sepals and fruit are connected. The wider and more obvious this ring is, it means that the eggplant fruit is growing rapidly and has not aged. If the ring band is not obvious, it means that the eggplant has stopped growing when it was harvested. The eggplant is now old and cannot be eaten.

2. Still about selection: young eggplants are dark in color, have thin skin and loose flesh, are light in weight, and the seeds and flesh are not easy to separate. There is a green-white skin on the lower part of the calyx. Old eggplants are shiny and bright in color, have thick and tight skin, the flesh is easy to separate, are heavy, and some have a bitter taste.

Finished product picture of cold eggplant

3. The skin of eggplant is covered with a layer of wax, which not only makes the eggplant shiny, but also protects the eggplant. Once the wax layer is washed away or mechanically damaged, it is easy to be invaded by microorganisms and rot. Therefore, to preserve eggplant, you must never wash it with water, and you must protect it from rain, bumps, and heat, and store it in a cool and ventilated place.

4. Old eggplants, especially old eggplants in autumn, contain more solanine, which is harmful to the human body and should not be eaten too much.

5. Eggplant is cold in nature, so people with weak spleen and stomach or asthma should not eat too much.