However, eggplant dishes in central Rajasthan are quite special. Fill round eggplant with various spices, then add yogurt, tomato sauce, curry and other accessories, and finally cook. In addition, there is a kind of roasted eggplant. The chef needs to bake the eggplant soft first, then take out the eggplant meat and mix it with chopped tomatoes, onions, spices and so on. Finally, put it into the bread and enjoy it.
There is a snack in Spain called. Fried eggplant cake? What's the local name? Berenjenas Moz? Rabe? . The method is relatively simple. First, cut the eggplant into thin slices, soak it in milk and salt water, and add some raw eggs and flour to start frying. After frying, dip it in honey water to eat.
Mosquito. Rabe? What does this mean? A Spaniard living among the Moors? This shows that this dish was brought to Spain by North African Moors in the 8th century. Although the Moors were driven away by the Spanish, their dishes remained. Now, Europeans who can eat eggplant the most still live in southern Europe.
In fact, wild eggplant can be found in India, Southeast Asia, Madagascar and Mauritius. In addition, farmers in the Indian valley began to eat eggplant five thousand years ago.
Two thousand years ago, there were records about artificial cultivation of eggplant in Sanskrit literature. Because eggplant tastes strange and difficult to process, this vegetable did not spread to the west. Moreover, when Alexander the Great conquered India, he not only didn't see eggplant, but also didn't bring it back to Greece. This shows that the ancient Romans were not familiar with eggplant.
In the 7th century, eggplant was spread from the Middle East by Arabs and Moors, and officially became a vegetable for Europeans. /kloc-in the 0 th and 6 th centuries, there was a record of planting eggplant in Britain. By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, eggplant had spread from India to Sichuan. In fact, Sichuan and India had a trade road a long time ago, but because the road was rugged and there were many thieves along the way, the trade scale was not large, and many people were unwilling to take risks.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian went to Central Asia, only to find that the local people were selling Sichuan specialties? Joan Zhu Zhang? And then what? Shubu? . It turned out that these things were sold to India by businessmen in Sichuan and then transported to Central Asia.
Wang Bao is a native of Ziyang, Sichuan, and lives in a friend's house in Chengdu. In the evening, he wanted to drink some wine, so he sent his servant to the shop to buy wine for himself. Unexpectedly, he was rejected.
At this time, the servant said: Master Yang gave him the task of looking after the house, but he didn't help people buy wine. ? Hearing this, Wang Bao was very angry. He bought this servant from his friend Yang and made him only responsible for buying tables and drinks in the future. Grow melons for cooking, without onions on tomatoes? . It can be seen that eggplant was already a daily vegetable.
In addition, eggplant was introduced to the south of China from Southeast Asia, which was written by scholars in the Jin Dynasty. Eggplant: It is a vegetable garden, with a wide variety of plants and trees, which will last for a long time after winter. . We'll talk about it later. Eggplant spread to the north, making the eggplant in Jingkou famous in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because eggplant tastes like crispy cheese, it is called falling crisp and cheese crisp.
In addition, Emperor Yang Di liked eggplant very much and named it? Kunlun purple melon? . It can be seen that people saw round eggplant at that time.
It is mentioned in Youyang Miscellaneous Notes written by scholars in the Tang Dynasty that this kind of eggplant was introduced from Silla. Its color is white and its shape is a bit like an egg. Moreover, only Ximing Temple can find this variety, which shows that this is a special kind of eggplant. Before the Yuan Dynasty, everyone saw round eggplant, but in the Yuan Dynasty, long eggplant appeared and was not introduced to Japan until the19th century.
Because of its large volume and high utilization rate, people began to study its practice. Some people suggest burning, frying, steaming, mixing and frying, while others suggest curing, drying and brewing. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, eggplant became a popular food. Moreover, in order to prevent eggplant from turning black, people gave up iron knives and specially developed bone knives and bamboo knives.
Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty mentioned the method of eggplant pot in his Book of Qi Yaomin: people who don't use it break it with bamboo knives and bone knives, and the soup is fried to remove the fishy smell. Slice the onion and cook the oil to make it fragrant. Soy sauce, chopped green onion and eggplant, cooked, Chili and Jiang Mo. ?
Is it recorded in A Dream of Red Mansions that eggplant slices are pickled? Eggplant? Clinic.
This process is very complicated. First, you need to peel the eggplant you just picked, clean it, cut it into pieces, and then fry it in chicken. Cut new bamboo shoots, spiced dried bean curd and various dried fruits into strips, put them in a jar, and then add fried eggplant, sesame oil, waste oil and chicken soup. Finally, seal the cans and let them settle inside. When you want to eat, take some from the jar and mix it with the fried chicken seeds.
Therefore, this aristocratic way of eating is naturally unheard of by granny Liu in rural areas.
Fried eggplant needs a lot of oil, which is unhealthy in modern people's concept. Therefore, it is now more common to cook it and then put it cold or in thick soup as a side dish.