Chinese Food Eggplant With Garlic Sauce
Give the sauce mixture a good whisk and pour into the skillet.
Chinese food eggplant with garlic sauce. Cut the eggplants in half lengthwise and place the eggplants in a single layer on a baking sheet brush with one tablespoon of the safflower oil and sprinkle with kosher salt. Good base recipe for szechuan style garlic eggplant. Need to season the eggplant with some salt pepper a bit while frying. Stir to combine and let cook for 5 7 minutes so the eggplant can absorb all the flavors.
Add the remaining 1 2 teaspoon oil the ginger and garlic into the same skillet. Let simmer until thickened about 1 2 minutes. Many people struggle to perfect it because of eggplant absorbs oil quickly and become soggy at the same time it lost its appetizing purple hue after cooking. There is another popular chinese eggplant dish named as yu xiang eggplants which is named chinese eggplants in spicy garlic sauce.
Add the garlic and scallions and sauté for 30 60 seconds. Jazz it up using fresh crushed garlic instead of the powder at least 2 fat cloves right at the end of stir frying the egglplant mellowing the garlic along with some green onion. Add the eggplant and chili oil to the skillet. Braised eggplants with garlic sauce is my favorite method of making eggplants in this autumn using very basic seasonings and producing a well balanced dish with strong garlic aroma.
However it is very tricky to cook eggplant. Add all the eggplant back into the skillet. In the oven place a rack up high about 10 inches from the heat and preheat on broil.