Fried tomato box is an out-and-out home-cooked dish in Northeast China. The main foods are eggplant, minced meat, raw eggs, ginger and garlic and edible salt. It's not difficult to do. I tried to give it to my family several times, but I couldn't make the first taste and taste. The first one is baggy, the eggplant is soft, not crisp at all, and it tastes bad. I wonder if it's too cooked, but if the fire is bigger, the meat will be undercooked and the noodles will be fried.
Later, after consulting the master, I realized that the little secret here was in the mixed batter. When we usually cook some food that must be hung with batter at home, we usually mix the batter with tap water, but we must effectively control the maturity during frying.
You won't succeed if you're not careful, but you can get rid of the trouble to the extreme by replacing the water with beer. I have used it several times, and the surface of the tomato box fried with wine is very brittle. With the help of egg white, the surface presents a shallow golden color, which can be achieved even by people who don't cook often.
The first step is to prepare food in advance: an eggplant, minced meat, ginger and garlic foam, vegetable oil, salt, a can of beer, a raw egg and a bowl of wheat flour. Eggplant is washed and cut like a three-dimensional imaging image, without breaking in the middle, which is convenient for adding meat foam. Add cooking wine, ginger, garlic and salt to minced meat and mix well.
Step 2: Beat an egg white in the dry flour (egg yolk can be added, and the final fried color is slightly darker), edible salt, and pour in beer and mix well, knowing that there is no dry noodle soup in the batter, and the consistency of mortar like the above is enough.
Step 3: put a little dry flour in the cut eggplant to help keep the meat foam from falling off. Put minced meat in the eggplant with chopsticks, then dip it in the adjusted batter to make sure it is all around.
Step 4: The pot consumes oil. When the temperature is about 50% hot, fry the tomato box in oil until it is slightly Huang Shi. If the color in the pot is already golden yellow, the color will get worse and worse.
The batter must be mixed with beer, and the consistency of thick mortar should be controlled. You must add egg whites to the batter. It must be more attractive in color and more fragrant in taste. The temperature during frying does not need to be too high. The oil can be fried in the pan if it is a little warmer. When frying, it should be rolled frequently to make it symmetrical when heated to avoid burning. A good tomato box can be eaten directly, and it should be eaten while it is hot, which is more crispy and delicious. You can also pour some favorite juice, such as tomato sauce.