Braised eggplant, eggplant should be cut into hobnail pieces.

How to cut eggplant into hobnail cubes:

1. First, make a diagonal cut.?

2, turn the cut side toward the top.?

3, cut diagonally at one-half of the cut side.?

4. Turn the last cut face up again.?

5. Still cut diagonally at about one-half. Keep doing this with one flip of everything and one flip of everything and you're OK.

Extended information

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) AKA: eggplant, dwarf gourd, hanging vegetable seeds, dropsupport, green eggplant, purple eggplant, white eggplant, herbaceous or subshrubby plants, up to 1 meter high. Branchlets more purple, hairs falling off with age. Leaves ovate or oblong-ovate, 6-18 cm long, apex obtuse, base asymmetric, shallowly undulate or y undulate-circular, lateral veins 4-5 pairs; leaf spur 2-4.5 cm long. Flowers mostly solitary, sparse racemes. The fruit is highly variable in shape and size, and varied in color.

The fruits are edible. Roots, stems and leaves are used as medicine, as astringent, with diuretic effect, the leaves can also be used as an anesthetic. The seeds are decongestant, also used as stimulant, but easy to cause gastric weakness and constipation, the fruit can be eaten raw to solve the poisoning of edible fungi