However, eggplant dishes in central Rajasthan are quite distinctive. Round eggplant is stuffed with all kinds of seasonings, then yogurt, tomato sauce, curry and other accessories are added, and finally cooked. In addition, there is a kind of roasted eggplant. The chef needs to bake the eggplant soft first, then take out the eggplant meat and stir it with chopped tomatoes, onions, spices and so on. Finally, put it into the bread and enjoy it.
There is a snack in Spain called. Fried eggplant cake? What is the local name? Berenjenas Moz? Rabe? . Its method is relatively simple. First, cut the eggplant into thin slices, soak it in milk and salt water, add some raw eggs and flour and start frying. After frying, dip it in honey water to eat.
Mosquito. Rabe? What does this mean? A Spaniard who lives among the Moors? This shows that this dish was brought to Spain by North African Moors in the 8th century. Although the Moors were driven away by the Spanish, their dishes remained. Now, the Europeans who can eat eggplant best still live in southern Europe.
In fact, there are wild eggplants in India, Southeast Asia, Madagascar and Mauritius. In addition, farmers in the Indian valley began to eat eggplant five thousand years ago.
Two thousand years ago, there were records about artificial cultivation of eggplant in Sanskrit literature. Because eggplant has a peculiar taste and is difficult to process, this vegetable has not spread to the west. Moreover, when Alexander the Great conquered India, he not only did not see eggplant, but also did not bring it back to Greece. This shows that the ancient Romans were not familiar with eggplant.
In the 7th century, eggplant was spread from the Middle East by Arabs and Moors, and officially became a vegetable for Europeans. /kloc-in the 0 th and 6 th centuries, there was a record of planting eggplant in Britain. By the end of the Western Han Dynasty, eggplant had spread from India to Sichuan. In fact, Sichuan and India had a trade road a long time ago, but because the road was rugged and there were many thieves along the way, the trade scale was not large, and many people were unwilling to take risks.
During the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian went to Central Asia, only to find that the local people were selling Sichuan specialties? Joan Zhu Ji? And then what? Shubu? . It turned out that these things were sold to India by businessmen in Sichuan and then transported to Central Asia.
Wang Bao, a native of Ziyang, Sichuan, lives in a friend's house in Chengdu. In the evening, he wanted to drink some wine, so he sent his servant to the store to buy wine for himself. Unexpectedly, he was rejected.
At that time, the servant said: Master Yang gave him the task of looking after the house and didn't help people buy wine. ? Hearing this, Wang Bao was very angry. He bought this servant from his friend Yang and made him only responsible for purchasing tables and drinks in the future. Grow melons for cooking, without onions on tomatoes? . It can be seen that eggplant was already a daily vegetable.
In addition, eggplant was introduced into South China from Southeast Asia, which was mentioned in Southern Vegetation written by scholars in Jin Dynasty? Solanum melongena: It is a vegetable garden with a wide variety of plants and trees, which will last for a long time after winter. . We'll talk about it later. Eggplant spread to the north, making the eggplant in Jingkou famous in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because eggplant tastes like crispy cheese, it is called crispy cheese.
In addition, Emperor Yang Di liked eggplant very much and named it? Kunlun purple melon? . It can be seen that people saw round eggplant at that time.
It is mentioned in Youyang Miscellanies written by scholars in the Tang Dynasty that this kind of eggplant was introduced from Silla, with white color and a bit like an egg. Moreover, only Ximing Temple can find this variety, which shows that this is a special kind of eggplant. Before the Yuan Dynasty, everyone saw round eggplant, but in the Yuan Dynasty, long eggplant appeared, and it was not introduced to Japan until the19th century.
Because of its large volume and high utilization rate, people began to study its practice. Some people suggest burning, frying, steaming, mixing and frying, while others suggest curing, drying and brewing. In the Southern and Northern Dynasties, eggplant became a popular food. Moreover, in order to prevent eggplant from turning black, people abandoned iron knives and specially developed bone knives and bamboo knives.
Jia Sixie of the Northern Wei Dynasty mentioned the method of eggplant pot in his book Qi Yao Min Shu: those who failed to use the seeds were broken with bamboo knives and bone knives, and the soup was fried to remove the fishy smell. Chop the scallion finely and cook the oil to make it fragrant. Soy sauce, chopped green onion, eggplant, cooked pepper and Jiang Mo. ?
Is it recorded in A Dream of Red Mansions that eggplant slices are pickled? Eggplant? Clinic.
This process is very complicated. First of all, you need to peel, clean, cut into pieces and fry the eggplant in chicken. Cut new bamboo shoots, spiced dried beancurd and various dried fruits into strips, put them in a jar, and then add fried eggplant, sesame oil, waste oil and chicken soup. Finally, seal the cans and let them settle inside. When you want to eat, take some from the jar and mix it with the fried chicken.
Therefore, this kind of aristocratic eating method is naturally unheard of in rural granny Liu.
It takes a lot of oil to fry eggplant, which is unhealthy in modern people's concept. Therefore, now more practice is to cook it, and then cold or put it in thick soup as a side dish.