Delicious and juicy eggplant cutlets: a step by step recipe

Eggplant cutlets, the recipe of which we will consider, turn out to be very tasty and tender, if you add zucchini to them, as well as pulp of wheat bread and chicken eggs. It is worth noting that such a dinner can be cooked in vegetable oil, using frying in a pan, and using a double boiler. The second option is more suitable for those people who adhere to a diet.

Delicious Eggplant Chops: Fried Recipe

Essential Ingredients:

eggplant patties recipe

  • young squash with soft peel - 2 pcs.;
  • iodized salt - ½ spoon (add to taste);
  • odorless sunflower oil - 80 ml (for frying dishes);
  • fresh young eggplants - 2 pcs.;
  • medium-sized chicken egg - 2 pcs.;
  • pulp of wheat bread - 100-150 g;
  • onions - a pair of small heads;
  • allspice - a pinch;
  • sifted wheat flour - 1/3 cup.

The process of processing the main ingredients

Eggplant patties, the recipe of which is surprisingly simple, should be formed only after the vegetable mass is completely ready. To prepare it, you need to wash all the vegetables, peel them, the belly button and the stalk, and then dip them into boiling water and boil for 10 minutes. During this time, zucchini and eggplant will become soft, and they can be safely mashed into slurry, completely pouring water. This should be done using a pusher or a blender.

zucchini and eggplant cutlets
Also, cutlets from zucchini and eggplant provide for the use of several heads of onions. It must be peeled and then finely chopped with a knife and sprinkled with previously mashed vegetables. After that, the pulp of wheat bread, 2 eggs, as well as allspice black pepper and iodized salt are required to be laid to the main cooled mass . As a result of these actions, you should get a thick paste, from which you can form cutlets. If the mixture is too liquid, then it is advisable to add a little wheat flour or grated raw zucchini to it.

The formation of a vegetable dish

Before you cook the eggplants cutlets and fry them in a pan, you should take the resulting mass in your hands (in the amount of 2 large spoons), and then form a flattened circle of 2 centimeters thick from it. Further, all semi-finished products must be rolled in wheat flour (from 2 sides).

how to cook eggplant patties
Heat treatment

It is better to fry such vegetable patties in a saucepan with a small amount of sunflower oil (odorless). It should be heated as much as possible, and then lay out the formed semi-finished products. It is recommended to fry them on each side from 5 to 10 minutes (until covered with a golden crust).

How to serve to the table

Eggplant patties, the recipe of which we reviewed above, should be presented to guests in a hot condition. It is also recommended to boil pasta or spaghetti, serve fresh wheat bread, thick 30% sour cream, hot ketchup or mayonnaise. If such a dish is cooked in a double boiler and is intended for diet food, then it is better to boil buckwheat.


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