Stuffed eggplant in batter (Chinese cuisine)

Category: Vegetable and fruit dishes

Kitchen: chinese

Stuffed eggplant in batter (Chinese cuisine)

Ingredients
Eggplant	2 medium copies
Minced meat + onion + garlic	300 g
Korean batter
Egg	1 PC

Cooking method

Wash the eggplants, remove the stalks and cut into plump (about 1cm) slices, holding the knife at an angle. Place under a press in salted water to remove the bitterness, and in the meantime cook the minced meat.
Pass the pork through a meat grinder, grind the onion, garlic with it, add your favorite spices, soy sauce to taste, for the juiciness of the minced meat, I also add a little milk, and be sure to add greens. Today I had green arrows of garlic, I passed them along with the minced meat through a meat grinder. Beat the minced meat well with your hands.
Cooking batter. I always have Korean batter "Ottogi" in stock, which is a pleasure to cook with, because it is simply diluted with water and whipped until smooth. If there is no ready-made batter, then it is better to make a real Chinese batter .. In the original, beat 2-3 eggs, add 1 tbsp. l. starch, 1 tsp. \ "ajinamoto \", 1 cup water and add flour until it is like pancake dough. The batter should be thick and viscous.
Beat one egg separately in a bowl.
We drain the water from the eggplants, dry them. It is very convenient to do this in a vegetable dryer.
While we are preparing semi-finished products for frying, we heat the pan.
So, put together a sandwich :) Spread the minced meat on a slice of eggplant with a layer of 0.5 cm and put the second slice of eggplant on it. The resulting stuffed eggplant is dipped in a beaten egg, then well immersed in batter and dipped in boiling oil. The dish is being prepared over medium heat.
It should be noted here that in the original, the Chinese cook these eggplants, of course, in hot oil. But since we are for a healthy lifestyle, and a lot of useful devices came to our aid that can be cooked completely without oil, this time I took a chance to cook eggplants in the Orion pancake maker, just smearing the surface in front of each with a brush with oil bookmark. It seems to me that a contact grill will cope with this no worse, and maybe even better. The only wisdom is this: at first, do not try to close the pancake maker with the latch until it stops, but let our art steamed properly - grab the batter and only then push the device and close it completely, thereby compressing it. When the batter becomes yellow-golden in color, you can take it out, the dish is ready.
While the eggplants are fried, prepare the sauce. Add crushed walnuts, salt or soy sauce, spices to taste, herbs to the sour cream and move until smooth.
We eat eggplants, dipping in sauce. Bon Appetit!

Time for preparing:

40 minutes

Cooking program:

pancake maker Orion

Note

This dish is called \ "Zhacekhe \", which is translated from Chinese as \ "stuffed eggplant in batter \". Of course, I deviated a little from the original recipe for its preparation, yet home cooking allows you to create and fantasize. Try it too, it's very tasty !!!