Hey everyone, it’s Brad, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, braised eggplant in garlic sauce鱼香茄子🍆. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
The eggplant is grilled until crispy and smoky, and then cooked in a rich savory garlic sauce. This vegan dish is very satisfying, both as a side or a main dish served over rice or noodles. I had braised eggplant in a Chinese restaurant and I was hooked.
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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can cook braised eggplant in garlic sauce鱼香茄子🍆 using 12 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Braised eggplant in garlic sauce鱼香茄子🍆:
- Make ready 1 lb Chinese eggplant, hand broken into inch length
- Prepare 1 Tsp salt in 4 cups of water for brining
- Make ready 1/2 carrot, sliced
- Get 1/2 onion, sliced
- Take 3 garlic, minced
- Prepare 1 tsp minced ginger
- Make ready 1 cup cooking wine
- Make ready 1/4 cup olive oil
- Prepare 2 green onion, sliced
- Take 1 Tsp tamari sauce
- Make ready 1 Tsp Pixian broadbean paste
- Get 1/2 Tsp Chinese aged vinegar
Braised Eggplant with Garlic Sauce is a classic Sichuan dish that combines soft simmered eggplant, fermented soy beans, and a sweet, garlicky sauce. For this version, I like to add a few tablespoons of chopped up preserved mustard root and incorporate the garlic in a couple of ways: first, by cooking. 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.
Steps to make Braised eggplant in garlic sauce鱼香茄子🍆:
- Soak eggplant in salty water for 5 minutes to remove excess water in eggplant.
- Get ready for all other ingredients. Squeeze out brining water in eggplant and set them aside.
- In a heated wok, saute eggplant in oil until they begin to soften for about a minute. Add carrot, onion and garlic, keep stirfry until aromatic for another minutes.
- Season with broadbean paste and pour in cooking wine. Cover up all eggplants with hot water and simmer for about 15 minutes on medium heat until soft and liquid reduce 2/3.
- Turn up the heat and stir very gently. Reduce the juice to almost nothing and splash in vinegar and a touch of honey. Adjust seasoning if necessary towards the end.
- Toss green onion in right before plating. Serve with rice or noodles.
Many people struggle to perfect it because of eggplant absorbs oil quickly and become soggy, at the same time it lost its appetizing. 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. There is another popular Chinese eggplant dish named as "Yu Xiang Eggplants", which is named "Chinese. Hotate & Eryngii Omelette, Traditional Curry Sauce with Garlic Shallot Rice. Chinese garlic sauce has an iconic flavor profile that can be found in many Chinese dishes.
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