To cook the whole eggplant, you need to boil the water for 8-10 minutes, but if you cut it into slices and cook it, it usually takes 1-3 minutes.

If it’s time and you still feel a little unsure whether it’s cooked, you can use chopsticks to poke the eggplant. If it breaks easily, it means it’s ripe. Simply boiled eggplant does not taste good. It is recommended that you cook it after frying in oil. The texture will be relatively smooth.

The specific steps are as follows:

1. First, clean the eggplant.

2. Then peel the garlic, clean it and chop it into pieces for later use.

3. Pour water into the pot and add eggplant.

4. Cut the cooked eggplant into pieces with chopsticks, and then marinate it with an appropriate amount of salt.

5. Put oil in the pot, add chopped garlic and sauté until fragrant.

6. Then add the eggplant, an appropriate amount of chicken essence, and light soy sauce and stir.

7. After frying until fragrant, it can be taken out of the pot.