Ingredients and cooking methods of eggplant with bean curd

Eggplant with soybean paste is very delicious. I often bring this dish to the company. Today I will teach you how to make it:

Introduction to Douban Eggplant

Don't underestimate this very common dish - bean paste eggplant. It is very delicious and goes well with rice, making you very satisfied. However, to make this common dish well, you have to make the eggplant absorb less oil and taste good. There is a trick to this - cover the eggplant with plastic wrap in advance and put it in the microwave on high heat for three minutes to preheat it. In this way, you only need to use a small amount of oil to stir-fry the bean paste during the frying process, and then stir-fry the aroma into the eggplant.

Ingredients for eggplant with bean curd

Long eggplant with bean paste

Garlic Soy Sauce

Cornstarch Vinegar

Pepper and Shallot

How to cook eggplant with soybean paste

1. Cut the long eggplant into small strips, prepare Pixian bean paste, two heads of garlic, and green onions.

2. Cover the eggplant with plastic wrap and put it in the microwave on high heat for three minutes

3. Cut the garlic into skins, add appropriate amount of soy sauce, cooking wine, etc. to make the sauce

4. Set aside the microwaved eggplant

5. Heat the pan, add a small amount of oil, add the Pixian Douban and stir-fry

6. Stir-fry until fragrant and add the prepared eggplant

7. Stir fry for a few times and add the prepared sauce

8. Cook for one or two minutes until the sauce is absorbed.

Tips

1. Cut the long eggplant into thin strips and put them in the microwave to pre-cook them. This is to absorb less oil;

2. Prepare the sauce: add a little cornstarch, a proper amount of soy sauce, vinegar to the garlic, no need to add salt, the bean paste is salty enough;

3. After the bean paste is stir-fried with a small amount of oil and fragrant, you can add the prepared eggplant;

4. After stir-frying for a few times, add the prepared sauce. Since the eggplant is pre-cooked, it does not need to be cooked for a long time. It will take two or three minutes for the sauce to thicken.