Get Eggplant Ready for Cooking
It requires little preparation to get ready to cook eggplant. But exactly the same, there are steps that you did so you have a safe and delicious eggplant dish can be.
How to clean
Wash is the fundamental step in the preparation of this fruit. According to food experts, all fruits and vegetables, washed thoroughly, whether organic or not, the dirt and bacteria.
Some of these pathogens can cause disease, especially for children with underdeveloped immune systems and people with weakened immune systems. Therefore, a thorough washing is important.
Not only can you enjoy eggplant in a bowl with water. Instead vigorously rubbing their skin under the tap.
Cut the eggplant
When cut eggplant, never a knife with a blade of carbon steel (or cook in an aluminum pot), this material is white meat. Instead, use stainless steel.
Cut after washing, the CAP and the stem and slice eggplant into thin slices, if you bake (no more than a quarter inch thick) to go. You can cut the length of roasting a whole.
To remove excess water
Unlike other products contain eggplant a lot of water. To remove excess moisture, do what some cooks them too salty.
When the fruit has been split into pieces, put the pieces in a sieve with the shiny side up. Salt lightly and evenly on the eggplant and let it sit for about half an hour.
So thoroughly washed with cold water, press pieces and pat them dry with paper towels.
Peeling of the skin or Not
You can change the skin of the eggplant and peel. It depends on what the recipe calls for, and your personal preferences.
Fill and bake, you should not remove the skin of the eggplant, because they serve as a container for filling.
Check in recipes where his skin to be removed, you rub the cut parts with lemon juice or vinegar to prevent fading.