I understand that there are Americans Limited palate for textures. Overall, we do not do gooey running the tendons full of collagen, or the detention of natto or the sponginess of the tripe. Instead, we want things to be fat and creamy and most of all, crunchy.
Well, yes, so I am. It's probably the most American thing about me. I just eat okra when stuck in besan or cornmeal before, and I'm sorry but I'm not just taking the chicken foot. Even bananas mostly gummy for my gag reflex. But on the other hand, I love vegetables, most of which are easy to have mushy, water, tikter in Mealy.
That is why I am in the present love of hetty lui mckinnon recipe for eggplant katsu from her genius coutbook Tenderheart. Katsu, a Japanese transliteration “cutlet,” is the simple method of chilling of meat, usually chicken or pork, in a batter flour and eggs and a coating in pank. Here, McKinnon applied it to soft eggplant rounds, the average sponge texture where a velvet is like a strong, crunchy coating. The batter is never simple, and eschews the egg for a flour flour, cornstarch, and cook with water with water and some pepper. The slices of the eggplant dipped in that, rolled in Pinko, and the pan fried oil.
It may not be a good revelation that my solution is to frying the vegetables in a crispy coating and started it with tonkatsu sauce, worried in Ketchinon, soy, balsamic vinegar and other times. But at the root of Treat your vegetables like meatApplying Japanese Katsu's way of different soft, weak vegetables makes the overall meaning. You can do this with all the zucchini you can't afford to get in your CSA, and tomatoes, and thick slices of bell pepper. And may not seem like a different one Other traditions of Pan-FryingBut we'll face it, the penko is just a superior coating.
Like all the simple simple recipes, techniques things here. Do not cut your vegetables thick or fry them with stable oil. And don't let the microwaveovers take a soggy mush. Instead, change any vegetables in a toaster oven or air frer to keep the crisp. Apart from that, you can only do anything with your dominant preferences. Serve them traditionally with rice rice and tonkatsu! Make a PARM! Put it in a sandwich! The world is your Katsu.