Summer is here, and it’s the season to eat beans, eggplants, and green peppers. Especially if you have a small vegetable garden at home, there is always no shortage of these three golden items. As a home-cooked delicacy for ordinary people, eggplant is extremely active on people's dining tables. Eggplant is also very suitable for cooking. It has a soft, waxy and mellow taste, mild and pleasant, suitable for all ages. In addition, it is rich in protein and a variety of vitamins needed by the human body. It can not only reduce swelling and pain, but also enhance the elasticity of capillaries. And the high content of vitamin C and vitamin E can promote skin metabolism and thereby enhance human immunity. So, although eggplant is loved by everyone, in addition to steaming eggplant alone, do you know any other delicious and simple ways to make it? Let me tell you.

The first type: cold eggplant strips

Recommendation reason: In the hot summer, it is suitable to eat some light and heat-reducing dishes. The cold eggplant strips are refreshing and appetizing, and have a good taste, which is very suitable It is very simple to eat in this hot weather and does not take up too much time.

Method: 1. First prepare the materials: one or two eggplants, whether they are strips or round ones, a few cloves of garlic, two each of spicy millet and green chili; 2. Remove the eggplants Cut the skin into strips, steam it in a pot and let it cool for later use; 3. Put a little oil in the pot, add minced garlic when the oil is hot, stir-fry until fragrant, add spicy millet and green chili and stir-fry, then add light soy sauce, Season with a little sugar, chicken essence, and a little salt; 4. Pour it on top of the cool eggplant strips.

Tips: If you want to make delicious eggplant salad, you have to choose good eggplants. Choose the shiny eggplants, which are purple-red or purple-black, and choose eggplants with tender calyxes. , the eggplant made in this way is delicious.

Second type: Meat and Eggplant

Recommendation reason: Friends who like to eat meat can try this method. It is novel and interesting, naturally appetizing, and has the aroma of meat and eggplant. The fragrance, the combination of the two complements each other

Method: 1. Select long, thin, uniform and shiny eggplants, cut them every two centimeters or so, but do not cut the bottom into sections; 2. Add an appropriate amount of salt, cooking wine, chicken essence, thirteen spices, oil, minced onion and garlic, minced mushrooms, and starch to the minced meat filling, stir evenly, and place in the gaps between the eggplants; cover the upper layer with plastic wrap and steam over high heat for 7 minutes. Collect the overflowing soup in the plate, add a little salt, light soy sauce, and water starch to simply thicken it, and pour it on top of the eggplant.

Tip: In order to look good and taste delicious, it is best to choose the long eggplant. It is necessary to thicken it with water at the end, but be careful not to make the soup thick.

The third type: Tomato Sauce Tomato Clippers

Reason for recommendation: This dish is very suitable for families with children at home, because it is so popular with children! Sweet and sour, it is specially formulated for children who don’t like to eat vegetables.

Method: 1. Prepare tomato sauce, long eggplant, meat filling, eggs, flour, starch; 2. Cut the long eggplant into two pieces without cutting in the middle; 3. Add cooking wine to the meat filling , salt, starch and ginger water, stir evenly and put them into the eggplant clips; 4. Mix flour and starch in a one to one ratio, add eggs and a little salt and mix into a batter; 5. Put the eggplant clips into the batter and wrap them Fry the batter on both sides in a pan or electric pan; 6. Pour tomato juice, water, and a little sugar into a bowl to make tomato juice, and pour it on top of the eggplant on the plate.

Tips: The batter for the eggplant clips must be in good proportion. If it is too thick, it will not taste good, and if it is too thin, it will not be able to wrap the eggplant clips. The ratio should be one to one.

The fourth type: braised eggplant strips

Reason for recommendation: good-looking, delicious and loved by everyone.

Method: 1. Prepare a large eggplant, do not peel it, a handful of fat beans, half a bell pepper, and a potato, all cut into long strips; 2. Put oil in the pot and heat the oil 80% When cooking, fry the above ingredients in the pot and take them out; 3. Put light soy sauce, vinegar, sugar, chicken essence, starch and appropriate amount of water into a bowl to make a sauce; 4. Take out the casserole and fry the chives in the pot Add ginger and garlic, add eggplant strips, potato strips, beans and peppers, add salt and stir-fry, then pour in the prepared sauce and simmer until the juice is reduced.

Tips: It is better to use a casserole with a powerful simmering function to make this dish, because it can well retain the fragrance of the ingredients themselves and allow the ingredients to simmer longer. Soft and tasty.