Braised Eggplant with Cowpeas

Braised Eggplant with Cowpeas? No Seasoning Salt, sugar, oyster sauce, soy sauce, water starch Does it contain preservatives No Suitable for the general public Ingredients Ginger, garlic, scallions Main ingredients Cowpeas, eggplants Main nutrients Protein, vitamins, amino acids

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1 Ingredient

Main ingredient: Cowpeas 1 small handful Eggplants 1 piece Ginger 1 slice Garlic 2 3 cloves of shallot

Seasoning: 1/2 teaspoon (3g) salt 1/3 teaspoon (3g) sugar 1 teaspoon (5g) oyster sauce 1 teaspoon (5g) soy sauce 1 teaspoon (5ml) water starch 1 tablespoon (15ml)

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1.Wash the cowpeas with their heads and tails removed, and slice them into 4cm long pieces. Wash the eggplant with skin on and cut into 4cm long sections as well. Peel and slice the ginger, peel and slice the garlic, and slice the scallions.

2, pot of water boiling, put salt (5 grams, recipe seasoning portion outside), cowpea segments into the blanching 20 seconds, into the eggplant segments blanching soup for 20 seconds, and then together with the full draining, and then in the strainer press the eggplant, squeeze out the water in the vegetables.

3, pot hot pour oil, high heat heating, until the oil temperature of 5 into the heat, put ginger, garlic, green onion, stir fry flavor, first into the eggplant strips, stir fry with medium heat for 1 minute, and then into the cowpea section stir fry a few times, then add salt, sugar, oyster sauce, soy sauce stir fry, pour in the water (about 100 ml), change to medium heat stir fry about 2 minutes.

4. Finally, pour in water starch to thicken the sauce.

3 Tips

1 Eggplant and cowpeas are more absorbent of oil, blanch first, especially squeeze out the water in the eggplant and then stir fry, you will not inhale a lot of oil, and the taste is also good. In fact, this is all in order to be able to reduce the water of the eggplant, and then fried when the oil and delicious.

2 If you think the blanching step is troublesome, cut the eggplant into strips, put salt and marinate for 10 minutes, kill the water, squeeze out the water in the strips, and fry directly. But because there is no blanching, then the cowpeas need to stir fry for a while longer, text step (3) after pouring water, stir fry on medium heat for about 6 minutes, right?

3 When blanching eggplant and cowpeas, remember to put salt in the water, which will give the cowpeas a bright green color and will also make the dish flavorful.

4 This is a more down-home dish, and it's also good to use as a bento take-home meal, whether you steam it hot, or microwave it, the flavor of the dish won't change too much.