Chinese sweet eggplant

Eggplant in Chinese - delicious, unusual, interesting! Eggplant sweet in Chinese is not quite a familiar dish for our cuisine, nevertheless, Chinese motifs are gaining more and more recognition around the world, including in Russia. Sweet Chinese sauces combined with vegetables, meat, poultry, fish were enjoyed by different categories of consumers. The proposed recipe is good both in itself and as a side dish for fried chicken, pork. Any meat or fish stewed in this sauce is delicious.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 8 % 1 g
Fats 0 % 0 g
Carbohydrates 92 % 11 g
42 kcal
GI: 67 / 0 / 33

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook eggplant in Chinese? First, prepare everything you need. Take strong eggplants, with a whole skin. Bulgarian pepper is juicy, sweet. I have it red, but you can take any color. Wash vegetables with a brush in running water before slicing.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Eggplant (I do not peel them) cut into a medium-sized cube (about 1x1 cm).

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Add salt to the eggplant, mix and let stand for a while. Then rinse under the tap and squeeze the water from the eggplant.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Cut sweet pepper into strips. Fry it in a frying pan with heated sunflower oil, stirring constantly and making sure that they are not overcooked. As soon as the crust begins to appear, remove from the heat.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Put the fried pepper in a separate saucepan (I have it made of tempered glass).

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Grate the ginger root on a fine grater, you can take the squeezed juice, you can add a completely grated root, there are no special instructions specifically for this dish.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Fry the eggplants in the same pan with oil until the color changes. They should become soft. Stir while frying. Then add the fried eggplant to the pepper.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    In the same pan where the peppers and eggplants were fried, prepare the sauce from the remaining ingredients: first fry the garlic cut into petals, add ginger, soy sauce, honey, starch. Mix it up. At the end, dilute everything with water and boil for 2 minutes.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Pour the sauce to the fried vegetables into a saucepan and cook everything together over low heat for 7 minutes, stirring.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Serve sweet eggplant in Chinese immediately hot. Although they are cold, they are also very good!

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

When adding soy sauce to a dish, it is worth considering that it has a rather salty taste. Reduce the total amount of salt, otherwise you risk over-salting.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Eggplant - 24   kcal/100g
  • Honey - 400   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Ginger - 80   kcal/100g
  • Dry ginger - 347   kcal/100g
  • Pickled ginger - 51   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Water - 0   kcal/100g
  • White wine vinegar - 14   kcal/100g
  • Potato starch - 300   kcal/100g

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