How to make bean paste and eggplant more delicious

Eggplant is a very common vegetable. It tastes delicious and has high nutritional value. Eggplant is effective for some diseases, so we should eat more eggplant at home. There are many ways to cook eggplant, the most outstanding of which must be braised eggplant in sauce, especially the braised eggplant in sauce made with the unique bean paste, which is definitely a famous dish in the Han cuisine.

1. How to cook eggplant with bean paste

Ingredients preparation

Eggplant, oil, salt, garlic, onion, ginger, bean paste, aged vinegar, cooking wine, sugar, and water starch.

Method steps

1. Prepare the ingredients, mix one spoon of light soy sauce, one spoon of aged vinegar, one spoon of cooking wine, half a spoon of sugar, and appropriate amount of salt into a bowl of sauce and set aside.

2. Wash the eggplant and cut it into pieces with a rolling knife; wash the onion and cut it into chopped onion; wash the garlic and cut it into garlic slices; wash the ginger and cut it into small pieces.

3. Put the cut eggplant into a basin of light salt water and soak it for about 20 minutes.

4. Take out the soaked eggplants and drain.

5. Heat the oil in a pan, put in the eggplant and start frying until the eggplant is slightly soft, then remove from the pan.

6. Heat the oil in the pan again, put the eggplant into the pan and fry it again.

7. Pour out all the oil used to fry the eggplant, leaving only a little, add the onion, ginger and garlic and sauté until fragrant.

8. Then add the bean paste, bring to a boil over high heat, add the fried eggplant and stir-fry quickly.

9. Stir-fry until the soup is almost gone, add water starch to thicken the sauce, and turn off the heat.

2. How to cook eggplant with bean paste and minced meat

Ingredients preparation

1 eggplant, 50g minced pork, appropriate amount of oil, appropriate amount of salt, 30g bean paste, 3 garlic cloves, appropriate amount of onions, 20ml cooking wine, 30ml light soy sauce, 2g white sugar, appropriate amount of starch, appropriate amount of ginger.

Method steps

1. Wash the eggplant, cut it into small pieces, add a little salt and marinate for a while.

2. Wash the pork and cut it into minced meat; wash the onion, ginger and garlic and cut them into minced meat.

3. Add cooking wine, white sugar and light soy sauce to the minced meat, and mix well with your hands.

4. Pour oil into the wok, heat it, then add the eggplant and stir-fry.

5. After the eggplant becomes soft, remove from the pan, add a little oil, add the bean paste, and stir-fry until fragrant.

6. Then add chopped onion, ginger and garlic, stir-fry until fragrant, add minced meat, stir-fry, add cooking wine and stir-fry until fragrant.

7. Pour the eggplant in and continue to stir-fry. Add light soy sauce, white sugar and a little salt and continue to stir-fry.

8. Then pour in a little water starch, stir-fry the eggplant evenly, turn off the heat, put it on a plate, and sprinkle with chopped green onions.