As we all know, eggplant originates from India. We can often see various shapes of eggplants in the vegetable market, such as: round eggplants, long eggplants. And, there are many ways to make eggplant, including frying, deep-frying, steaming, boiling and so on. In addition, there are dishes about eggplants all over India, for example: the northern Bengal region has pan-fried eggplants, which are cut into slices and then marinated with spices and finally fried.

However, the eggplant dish of the central state of Rajasthan is more special, which is a round eggplant stuffed with a variety of spices, and then put in yogurt, tomato sauce, curry and other accessories, and finally, cooking. In addition, there is also a baked eggplant, where the cook needs to soften the eggplant, and then, remove the flesh, mix it with chopped tomatoes, onions, spices, etc., and finally, stuff it into a pastry, and it is ready to be enjoyed.

Spain has a snack called ? fried eggplant fritters? , locally known as ?berenjenas moz?rapes?. It is relatively simple to make, first of all, cut the eggplant into thin slices, go soak it in milk and salt water, add some raw eggs and flour and start frying. After frying, dip it in honey water and eat it.

Moz?rabe? means ? Spaniards who live among the Moors? , thus suggesting that the dish was brought by the Moors from North Africa when they entered Spain in the eighth century. Although the Moors were driven out by the Spaniards, their dish was left behind. And now, the Europeans who can best eat eggplant still live in Southern Europe.

In fact, wild varieties of eggplant can be found in India, Southeast Asia, Madagascar, and Mauritius. And, 5,000 years ago, farmers in the Indus Valley began eating eggplant.

Two thousand years ago, Sanskrit literature contains records of eggplants grown in captivity. Because, eggplant has a strange flavor and is difficult to process, the vegetable did not spread westward. And, during Alexander the Great's conquest of India, not only did he not see eggplants, there is no record of eggplants being brought back to Greece. Thus, it shows that the ancient Romans were not familiar with the eggplant.

In the seventh century A.D., the eggplant was spread from the Middle East by the Arabs and Moors, and officially became a vegetable for Europeans. It was in the sixteenth century that the cultivation of eggplant was documented in England. By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, eggplant was spread from India to the territory of Sichuan. In fact, Sichuan and India had a trade route a long time ago, but because the road was rugged and there were many thieves along the way, the trade was never very large, and many people didn't want to take the risk.

Han Wu Di period, Zhang Qian mission to Central Asia, even saw the locals are selling Sichuan specialties? Qiong bamboo staff? and? Shu cloth? It turned out that these things are Sichuan merchants sold to India, and after that, transferred to Central Asia.

Sichuan Ziyang people Wang Bao sleeps in Chengdu, a friend's house, at night he wanted to drink some wine, so he asked his family underlings to go to the store to buy wine for themselves, but did not expect to be rejected.

At that time, the underling said: ? The only task assigned to him by his master Yang was to look after the house and guard the yard, and not to help people buy wine.? After hearing this, Wang Bao was very angry and bought the servant from his friend Yang, and asked him to be responsible only for purchasing wine and food in the future, i.e. ? Plant melon as gourd, don't eggplant draped in onion? This shows that eggplant was already a vegetable for daily consumption at that time.

In addition, the eggplant also from the Southeast Asian generation to China's southern China, the Jin Dynasty literati wrote the "southern grasses and trees," mentioned ? Eggplant tree: cross, wide grasses and trees, through the winter does not decay, so the vegetable garden in the planting of eggplant? Later. Eggplant spread to the north, making the eggplant in Jingkou during the Eastern Jin Dynasty known far and wide. Because, the flavor of eggplant is very much like crisp cheese, so, it is called drop crisp and cheese crisp.

And, Emperor Yang of Sui liked the eggplant and gave it the name ? Kunlun purple melon? It can be seen that at that time, people saw round eggplant.

Youyang Miscellany Chopper, written by Tang Dynasty literati, mentioned that this kind of eggplant was imported from Silla, and its color was white and its shape was a bit like a chicken egg. And, only this variety can be found in Ximing Temple, indicating that this is a special kind of eggplant. Before the Yuan Dynasty, everyone saw round eggplants, and it was only in the Yuan Dynasty that long eggplants were introduced, and they were not introduced to Japan until the 19th century.

Because of the advantages of eggplant, such as its large size and high utilization rate, people began to study how to make it, and some people suggested broiling, stir-frying, steaming, mixing, and frying, while others suggested pickling, drying, and brewing. By the time of the North and South Dynasties, eggplant became a delicacy among commoners. Moreover, in order to prevent the cut surface of eggplant from turning black, people gave up iron knives and specialized in developing bone knives and bamboo knives.

Jia Si-feng of the Northern Wei Dynasty, in his own work "Qi Min Yao Shu", mentioned the practice of eggplant casserole: ? With the son not yet become a bamboo knife bone knife four broken, soup fried to remove the fishy gas. Finely chopped white onion, boiling oil to make fragrant. Soy sauce oil, break the white onion and eggplant are down, the cooked, under the pepper, ginger.

"Dream of Red Mansions" recorded a slice of eggplant pickled into? Eggplant replica handbags?

The process is very complicated, first you need to peel the freshly picked eggplant, clean it and cut it into chunks and fry it in chicken oil; new bamboo shoots, five-spice dried beans, and all kinds of dried fruits and seeds are all cut into strips and put them in a jar, and then add the fried eggplant, sesame oil, bad oil, and chicken broth; and finally seal the jar tightly and let them settle in it. When you want to eat, take some out of the jar and mix it with fried chicken melon seeds.

So, this kind of aristocrat's way of eating, naturally, is the countryside Liu Lou Lou has not heard of.

Frying and pan-frying eggplants requires a lot of fat, which is not good for health in the modern mindset. Therefore, it is now more common to cook it and serve it cold or put it in a thick soup as a side dish.