A large number of fresh vegetables are on the market in summer. Eating more vegetables is good for your health. Among these vegetables, eggplant is a kind of vegetable that everyone often eats. Hot summer is the best time to eat eggplant.
For the way to eat eggplant, the most common thing in our life is vegetarian frying, or meat frying, or cowpea frying. This way of eating is also good, but people will be tired if they eat too much. Is there a good way to eat eggplant for health? Today, I recommend several new ways to eat eggplant. Before introducing how to eat eggplant, let's take a look at the nutritional parents and health care functions of eggplant.
It's hot in summer, and eggplant is sweet and cold. Eating in summer can clear away heat and relieve summer heat, promote blood circulation and remove blood stasis. Furthermore, eggplant is rich in vitamin C and saponin, which has a good effect on lowering cholesterol.
Secondly, eggplant is low in calories and rich in water and fiber. Eating in summer can also help promote gastrointestinal peristalsis, relieve constipation and lose weight. Combined with vitamin E and anthocyanin, it can help the skin keep elastic, delicate and moist, beauty beauty.
When people eat eggplant, many people scrape off the eggplant skin, which is actually wrong. Eggplant skin is rich in nutrients and anthocyanins. I suggest you eat the skin together.
In addition, try not to throw eggplant pedicle, because eggplant pedicle tastes sweet and cool, and has the effects of clearing away heat and toxic materials, cooling blood and stopping bleeding. You can come over and stir fry when cooking.
Many people think that eggplant absorbs oil when cooking, in order to prevent eggplant from absorbing oil. Here's a tip: after the eggplant is washed, cut it and marinate it with some salt, so that the water in the eggplant is absorbed, and then the water is squeezed out, destroying the sponginess of the eggplant. This can reduce the oil absorption of eggplant when frying it. Eggplant is also faster to cook.
Here is a detailed introduction to the unique eating method of eggplant, which can not only retain the nutritional components of eggplant to the greatest extent, but also be delicious. Let's study together.
The first one: add onions. Eggplant with onion is delicious, refreshing and not cold. Suitable for the elderly and children. It can also protect blood vessels and enhance human immunity. Reduce blood viscosity and help to prevent thrombosis.
Materials; 2 eggplant, 1 onion, 1 onion, ginger and garlic, salt, sesame oil, vinegar and millet pepper.
Practice: 1 Wash the eggplant first, then cut it into long strips and steam it in a steamer. The time is about 8 minutes.
Then take it out and put it on a plate. Chop onion, ginger and garlic, and chop millet pepper.
Wash and chop onions. Put oil in the pan, saute shallots, ginger and garlic, add shallots and millet peppers, stir-fry for a while, turn off the heat and pour over the eggplant.
4 Prepare sauce, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar, sesame oil and chicken essence, mix well, pour in eggplant and onion, and mix well.
The second type: with bitter gourd. Fried bitter gourd with eggplant is an ideal dish for cardiovascular patients, which can stabilize blood sugar, prevent blood vessel rupture, calm blood pressure, clear heart and improve eyesight.
Ingredients: 2 eggplants, 1 bitter gourd, 1 red pepper, onion, ginger, garlic, salt,
Practice; 1 Wash the eggplant, slice it, marinate it with a little salt, and remove the water from it.
Wash bitter gourd, cut into pieces and remove the pulp, so that the bitterness can be less. It needs to be salted.
3 Cut the onion, ginger and garlic, and cut the red pepper. Put oil in the pan, add leek, ginger and garlic and stir fry eggplant.
4 then add bitter gourd, stir-fry the ingredients until soft, add red pepper, add chicken essence, and take out the pot.
The third type; Eggplant omelet
This method is simple and convenient, healthy, nutritious and delicious, and it is super fragrant with rice.
Materials; 2 eggplants, 2 eggs, salt and flour.
Practice; 1 eggplant washed and sliced, about 1 cm.
Beat the eggs into a bowl, add some flour, add a little warm water, add salt and pepper and mix well.
3 put the eggplant slices in and paste both sides. Put it aside.
4 pots, put oil, put batter eggplant in turn, fry on medium and small fire, fry on both sides and take it out.
Prepare sauce, warm water, soy sauce, sugar and starch, pour into the pot, bring to a boil, pour in eggplant cake, stew for one minute, and taste.
Sprinkle a little chopped green onion on it before cooking.
The fourth kind; Mashed garlic eggplant salad
This dish is very suitable for summer. It tastes refreshing and not greasy, cool and healthy. Simple and convenient, it is the healthiest way to eat eggplant.
Ingredients: 2 eggplants, minced onion and ginger, more garlic, salt, vinegar, soy sauce, sugar and chicken essence.
Practice: 1 eggplant washed, not cut, directly steamed in the pot for about 8 minutes.
After the eggplant is steamed, it is torn into strips, cooled and put on a plate for later use.
3 Cut the onion, ginger and garlic into sections, cut the millet pepper into sections, stir-fry in the pan and pour into the eggplant.
4 Prepare the sauce, add salt, vinegar, chicken essence and soy sauce, mix well and pour into the eggplant.