🍆 Dad's Eggplant with Garlic Sauce (鱼香茄子)!

Watch Daddy Lau teach us how to make Eggplant with Garlic Sauce, also known as Yuxiang Eggplant.

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🍴 RECIPE + INGREDIENTS🍴

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🔗 LINKS MENTIONED 🔗

Recipes in Meal Time:
– Taro Cake: http://youtu.be/SNjFzm_5dW0
– Turnip Cake: http://youtu.be/hN3hdW2it-0

Other great Eggplant recipes:
Kenji’s: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUiKiHbgIZk
Chinese Cooking Demystified: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH5pP5Yd85A
Chef Wang Gang: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0seR92vpTMc
Fuschia Dunlop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uU6DwAi2S8

Articles:
https://www.finecooking.com/article/the-science-of-salt
https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/eggplant-benefits

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⏲ CHAPTERS ⏲

00:00 – Intro
00:37 – What is Yuxiang Eggplant?
01:10 – Wash & pick eggplant
01:28 – Background on Eggplant
02:07 – Prepare and steam eggplants
03:49 – Cut vegetables
06:14 – Prepare sauce
07:18 – How to tell if eggplant is done
08:06 – Cook sauce
09:20 – Mix eggplant with sauce
09:57 – Plate eggplant
10:23 – Meal Time!
11:04 – On Yuxiang sauce
11:43 – Did you eat this in China?
13:08 – How to pick the best eggplant?
14:51 – Making with Italian / American eggplants
15:37 – Should you salt your eggplant?
17:10 – How to maintain purple color when cooking?
18:22 – Microwaving eggplant
18:45 – How to not overcook it & get the perfect texture?
19:09 – How does the Sichuan style differ?
19:45 – Mom bought dad flutes!

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