I am discouraged at the thought of a smoky kitchen. I order takeout every day, but I'm not too worried about sanitary conditions. After all, there's a lot of news about takeout now. I can't deliver takeout on weekdays, but I still eat takeout with my family all day. I'm afraid this body is really unbearable. Therefore, in the hottest summer, most Beijingers make noodles, and then they are served with two or three small cold dishes to relieve the heat and stimulate the appetite. Eating with a spatula in the kitchen is cooler and more comfortable without sweating. After all, I have no appetite to cook a table for more than an hour in the kitchen on a hot day, not to mention such hot weather.

A small cold dish that my family cooks every summer is mashed garlic eggplant in old Beijing. I remember that in the summer when I was a child, my mother often steamed a pot of eggplant, and everyone rushed to eat it as soon as it was served. That is definitely the most unforgettable memory of childhood food. Mashed garlic eggplant used to cook in a steamer, but in fact it can be cooked in an electric rice cooker. Let's have a look!

Mashed garlic eggplant

Ingredients: eggplant, garlic, salt, sesame sauce, soy sauce and vinegar.

Practice: 1. Wash the long eggplant. The exact number of eggplant depends on how much you want to cook. It is enough for a family to stutter three or four long eggplants this big.

2. Cut the eggplant in the middle and then cut it into long strips. Because it is to be put in the rice cooker, the strips are shorter. If you put it in a steamer, you can also use longer strips.

3. Put a proper amount of water in the rice cooker, and put the cut eggplant in the grate of the rice cooker, not on the tip.

4, the rice cooker selects the cooking function, and the power can be turned off in 20 minutes. It is best to steam eggplant early in the morning, after all, it can be eaten when it is cold.

5. Prepare the sauce, mix the right amount of sesame sauce, soy sauce, salt and vinegar, then pour in the right amount of water, and finally mix in the chopped garlic.

Finally, pour the prepared sauce directly on the steamed and cooled eggplant, and you can eat it. Soft eggplant mixed with fragrant sesame sauce and garlic paste is simply the most suitable cold dish for appetizing in summer. A large plate of eggplant looks too much and feels full. And the method is super simple, with almost no difficulty. It is a lazy dish that doesn't need to study in a big city. Do you want a plate?