One of the thorny paths to the gastronomic table was done by eggplant. Its wild relatives originally grew in India and China. The first Europeans to try this vegetable were, as historians believe, the soldiers of Alexander the Great. But most of them simply got poisoned due to improper cooking. It took not a single century before this vegetable managed to take root in the European menu. But today they cook
eggplant with cheese and garlic, and tomato, and meat. Baked in the oven, make snacks and just stew with vegetables.
To prepare a truly delicious eggplant dish, the main thing is to know their secret. So that the fruits are not bitter, they need to be cut, sprinkled with salt, pour water and leave for half an hour. During this time all bitterness will leave. After that, you can start cooking the dish itself. And whatever it is, the eggplant will certainly only improve its taste.
Especially interesting are the snacks made from them, for example, Bon Voyage. To prepare it, you need zucchini and
eggplant (with cheese and garlic, and tomato). And this, although a classic, but no doubt very tasty. Fry eggplant sliced with zucchini in vegetable oil. Put on a napkin so that it absorbs excess fat. Grate cheese and carrots, mix each product separately with garlic and mayonnaise. Now you can collect the snack in the following sequence: zucchini, carrots, eggplant, cheese, a little greens, a circle of tomato. Sprinkle with greens and black pepper.
It's just that you can cook a spicy and tasty snack. But this is just eggplant with cheese and garlic, and tomato, of course. But not only appetizers are limited to the eggplant menu. No less delicious are meat-stuffed eggplants and cheese in the oven.
Wash three fruits well, cut in half and remove the core. Set aside. For the filling, cut 1 onion, 2 tomatoes, eggplant core and 3 cloves of garlic into cubes. Fill onion and garlic in a frying pan heated with oil, fry until transparent. Add 300 g of minced meat, fry a little more and put eggplant with tomatoes. Salt and pepper. Fry for another 10 minutes. Add the eggplant to the resulting filling, put it in a baking dish and sprinkle with grated cheese. Put everything in the oven, preheated to 180 degrees. Bake for 30-35 minutes.
And, again, it's just eggplant with cheese and garlic, and tomato. But now the second dish. This is truly a classic combination found in most eggplant dishes. It is interesting that with them they prepare not only snacks, the second, but also soups, and even pies. A distinctive feature of all these dishes is their taste. Only eggplant manages to convey their unusual features to them.
And, knowing always the successful combination of "eggplant with cheese and garlic, and tomato", you can cook not one hundred chic dishes. You can even come up with a menu only from dishes with this vegetable, in which everything will be - soups, stews, dishes with meat, pies, pizzas. Of course, do not forget about eggplant in the oven with cheese. Moreover, the menu may even include culinary traditions of different peoples of the world.