Every housewife knows how to cook several eggplant dishes. Typically, these vegetables are added to various stews and hodgepodge, fried with garlic, pickled in Korean and so on. You can find how to make delicious baked eggplant (photo, recipe and a detailed description of a beautiful serving) in our article. You will be presented with a choice of several simple and tasty cooking options - it remains to choose the one you like and, using it, prepare a family dinner or a second course for lunch.
How to bake eggplant in the oven: vegetable "boats" with minced meat and cheese
For two servings of this dish you will need:
- 1 large eggplant;
- 250 g of any forcemeat - beef, pork, chicken or mixture;
- a couple of cloves of garlic and 1 onion;
- 50 g of any hard cheese;
- 2 tbsp. l thick sour cream;
- salt, various spices and herbs of your choice and taste.
To beautifully bake
eggplant in the oven, take a large vegetable, wash, dry and cut it strictly in half, sprinkle with salt and leave for a quarter hour. Then rinse again - so you will get rid of possible bitterness. In vegetable oil, fry finely chopped onions, and then minced meat until half cooked. Add finely chopped greens to it, salt and sprinkle with a little black pepper. The result was a delicious filling. Now, take the pulp out of the eggplant so that the inside turns into a cavity - you need to put the fried minced meat there, pour sour cream on top, and finally sprinkle each “boat” with grated cheese. And now the simplest thing remains - to bake eggplant in the oven. 25 minutes is enough for you (with the oven preheated to 180 degrees) to get a stunningly delicious dish, appetizingly covered with a cheese crust and stuffed with your favorite meat. Cook a little more - everyone will definitely ask for supplements.
A simpler recipe: baked eggplant with tomatoes
This beautiful vegetable snack will complement the festive table. To prepare, take:
- 2 eggplants - vegetables should be medium in size;
- 3 ripe tomatoes - it would be nice to choose a non-watery variety;
- a few cloves of garlic, a couple of tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- salt and sunflower oil.
Wash the eggplants, cut into medium-sized rings (up to half a centimeter), salt and put in a deep bowl. They should stand for half an hour so that possible bitterness comes out of the vegetable. In the meantime, cut the tomatoes into circles, and squeeze the garlic into mayonnaise. Now it's time to bake eggplant in the oven. To do this, grease the form with sunflower oil, put the eggplant rings in it and send it to cook in the oven for 15-20 minutes (at 180-200 degrees). Of course, vegetables can be fried, but in this case they will absorb a lot of vegetable oil, which will affect the taste and calorie content of the dish. After the “little blue ones” are ready, grease the top of each circle with mayonnaise, put a slice of tomato on top, then mayonnaise again, and the last layer is again a circle of baked vegetable. This vegetable pyramid can be decorated with a drop of sauce and sprigs of greens. Great snack for the festive table is ready. Now you know how not only tasty, but also beautifully bake eggplant in the oven.