Eggplant dishes are delicious and healthy. They contain a large number of minerals - iron, manganese, copper, potassium, sodium and others. Experts note that the biological activity of these substances in eggplant helps maintain the cardiovascular system, urinary tract, intestines, kidneys, liver, etc.
Those who love eggplant recipes like any. But there are such culinary offers that literally “drool”. For example, baked eggplant. The recipe for cooking depends on the preferences of the hostess and her family. We want to bake vegetables, we want - with meat, we want - just with cheese. From all the recipes I looked at, I concluded that baked eggplants are tasty and beautiful in any form: circles, plates, notched along or across. For example, such a recipe.
Wash and dry the eggplant fruits. Cut the eggplant across the circles and fan out. Coat each circle inside with mayonnaise and garlic. Between them lay tomato rings and slices of hard cheese. Wrap in foil, bake until eggplant is cooked.
To cook delicious eggplant recipes you can come up with yourself. After all, this amazing vegetable is combined with different products.
But gourmets can try eggplant with nuts. The recipe is very simple. Fry the eggplant slices in oil, and top with a nut paste, which is prepared from 50 grams of walnuts, a clove of garlic, a little mayonnaise. Lovers of rolls wrap this paste in fried eggplant plates.
We will help to save eggplant recipes for homemade products for the whole year. Their peculiarity is that salads and snacks are prepared very quickly in comparison with other vegetables.
Eggplant - salad recipes for the winter.
"With Beans"
Rinse and boil 0.5 kg of beans until cooked. Prepare the vegetables. Wash, clean, cut 2 kilograms of eggplant into cubes. Grate 0.5 kilograms of carrots on a kurp grater. Peel 0.5 kg of bell pepper, cut into strips. Put the vegetables in an enameled pan, add 0.5 liters of vegetable oil, 150 grams of sugar, 50 grams of salt, 100 grams of 9% vinegar, mix. Cook vegetables for twenty minutes, then combine with beans, add three heads of grated garlic, cook for another ten minutes. Fold the finished salad in sterilized jars, roll up.
"Spicy eggplant"
Wash, clean, cut 5 kilograms of eggplant into cubes, boil for three minutes in 5 liters of boiling water with the addition of 200 grams of salt and 0.5 liters of vinegar. Drain the water, put the eggplant in a colander. After the water drains, boil the slices in boiling oil in a frying pan for three minutes, put in a large bowl. Twist hot peppers (one to two pods) in a meat grinder with garlic (one large head). Mix pepper and garlic with eggplant and place tightly in sterilized jars. Roll up.
“In tomato sauce with minced meat” - delicious, but worth the effort.
Wash 5.5 kilograms of eggplant, remove the stalks, cut into 2 centimeter thick rings. Show vegetables in vegetable oil. For minced meat 450 grams of carrots, 100 grams of white root cut into strips, stew. 150 grams of onions cut into circles, fry in oil until golden brown. Finely chop the parsley and dill and mix with prepared vegetables - carrots, onions and a white horse. Dilute 800 grams of tomato paste with 2 liters of water, add 50 grams of sugar and 40 grams of salt, boil. Pour hot marinade into the prepared jars to half the jar, pour one tablespoon of hot vegetable oil. Then mentally divide the jar into three parts. Now we need to put the eggplant first in the jars, then the minced vegetable, then the eggplant again, without reporting two centimeters to the top of the jar. Cover, sterilize (half-liter cans - fifty minutes, liter - seventy minutes), and then roll up.