Eggplant is loved by many of us. But far from every housewife knows how to properly cook a vegetable. In our article, we want to talk about how to cook a delicious eggplant dish. There are many different options for salads and snacks from this vegetable. It is about them that will be discussed in our article.
Eggplant Feature
Starting a conversation about how to cook eggplant, it is worth recalling one feature of vegetables. All varieties have some bitterness. In some species it is more pronounced, while in others it is weaker. You can get rid of bitterness quite simply. Cut eggplant and sprinkle with salt. Twenty minutes later, excess salt is washed off. But there is another way. Chopped blue dipped in salted water, and then squeezed.
In addition, you can bake eggplant in the oven, and then peel them off. This will also help get rid of bitterness.
Snack rolls
In the summer, every housewife wonders how to cook eggplant. In fact, there are many recipes. Unfortunately, this wonderful vegetable is not as popular with us as in other countries. Delicious eggplant appetizers pleasantly diversify the summer-autumn menu. We offer to prepare snack rolls.
Ingredients:
- homemade cottage cheese (190 g),
- garlic,
- three eggplants
- salt,
- mayonnaise,
- walnuts.
For cooking, you need to use young eggplant, cut them lengthwise into long slices. We salt on both sides and leave the blanks for thirty minutes. Then thoroughly rinse them in running water.
For the preparation of eggplant rolls with walnuts, it is preferable to use fat home-made cottage cheese. We wipe it through a sieve or knead with a fork. We chop walnuts and greens, we pass garlic through a press. Mix the ingredients together and season with mayonnaise. The resulting mass lubricates the eggplant blanks and twist them into rolls.
If there is no cottage cheese in the refrigerator, then you can take cottage cheese or even a mixture of cottage cheese with grated hard cheese.
Tomato and cheese appetizer
All eggplant snacks are delicious. The vegetable goes well with many products, including cheese. Culinary specialists widely use this flavor combination.
Ingredients:
- baguette,
- eggplant,
- two tomatoes
- cheese (130 g)
- greens,
- two eggs,
- vegetable oil and salt.
To prepare snacks, cut the tomatoes and eggplant in circles. Fry eggplant in vegetable oil. Beat the eggs in a bowl, add chopped greens and salt. Next, we cut the baguette in identical pieces and each dip into the egg mass, and then fry in vegetable oil on both sides.
Now we are forming our snack. For each slice of baguette, put a circle of tomato, a plate of cheese and a circle of eggplant. Sprinkle food with oil and bake in the oven for about ten minutes.
Eggplant with minced meat
Not sure how to cook eggplant? Then we offer you the following recipe. Blue with cherry and minced meat will certainly please you.
Ingredients:
- minced meat (340 g),
- cherry (120 g),
- two eggplants
- processed cheese (120 g),
- olives (jar),
- a mixture of peppers
- dried thyme greens.
We cut eggplants into two parts. Gently remove the pulp, cut it into small pieces and fry with minced meat in a saucepan. Add dried thyme and spices. It is better to purchase oils without stones, cut them into two parts, and cherry - into four, chop the cheese into cubes.
We stuff the eggplant blanks with minced meat, spread cherry, olives and cheese slices on top. Next, grease a baking sheet with butter, put the stuffed blue on it and bake in the oven. Eggplant stuffed with delicious.
Chicken Salad
How to cook eggplant? Blue can be used to make a delicious salad.
Ingredients:
- boiled fillet (220 g),
- eggplant,
- three tomatoes
- sweet pepper,
- bow.
For refueling:
- soy sauce (tbsp),
- adjika (tsp),
- ground pepper
- lemon juice (two tbsp. l.),
- greens.
Eggplant must be cut into circles, grate with salt and pepper, leave for fifteen minutes. Next, fry the blue in vegetable oil on both sides. We cut the meat into cubes, onions in half rings, tomatoes into slices, and pepper into strips. Take a deep salad bowl and mix all the products.
From these products we prepare the sauce and season it with salad. Fifteen minutes later, we serve the dish on the table with greens.
Vegetable salad
How to cook eggplant? Of course, salads are one of the best options. A light vegetable mix is always a welcome guest on any table.
Ingredients:
- zucchini,
- two eggplants
- an Apple,
- greens,
- two sweet peppers
- garlic,
- vegetable oil.
We cut apples, zucchini, eggplant into small cubes, and pepper in the form of straws. Blue should be salted and put on a greased baking sheet. Bake them in the oven for no more than ten minutes. Next, put pepper on a baking sheet, pour oil and cook for another ten minutes. After we add all the other components - zucchini and apples. Top them with oil and continue to bake for ten minutes.
Next, mix all the vegetables in a salad bowl and season with oil. If you like spicy dishes, you can add garlic. Sprinkle the salad with herbs.
Eggplant with mushrooms
Baked eggplant with mushrooms is a delicious dish worth a try.
Ingredients:
- champignons (430 g),
- eggplant (430 g),
- cream (230 ml),
- dry white wine (450 ml),
- bow,
- thyme,
- garlic,
- pepper,
- cheese.
Pre-cut the eggplant, sprinkle with salt and leave for 15 minutes. Meanwhile, we wash ourselves and chop the mushrooms. Fry the mushrooms in vegetable oil, then add the onions, and after a couple of minutes pour the wine and wait until it evaporates. Add cream to the champignons and simmer them for ten minutes over low heat. Be sure to add pepper, thyme and salt to taste.
For further cooking, we need a baking dish. Lubricate it with butter and spread the eggplant and mushrooms. The form of the composition may be arbitrary. Top the dish with grated cheese and send it to the oven for at least 20 minutes.
Saute
How to cook eggplant sauté? There is a fairly large selection of recipes for preparing such a dish. Classic sautés mean pre-frying all products. Cooking is not difficult. Many eggplant lovers love it.
As an example, we give one of the simplest options for cooking sauté. The recipe is simple, which means that it can be recommended even to inexperienced chefs.
Before cooking, peel the tomatoes and eggplant. Cut the carrots into thin strips. In this form, it looks much more spectacular in a dish. If you are in a hurry, you can rub it on a grater. The taste of dishes from this will not change for the worse.
Ingredients:
- four blue
- two carrots and the same amount of pepper
- greens,
- four tomatoes
- bow,
- vegetable oil,
- garlic.
My eggplant and cut into ordinary circles. Well salt them and leave for 30 minutes. During this time, they will get rid of unnecessary bitterness. Dice tomatoes, onions and peppers. Cut the carrots into strips.
Heat the pan with oil. On it, thoroughly fry all the vegetables, alternately adding them. First, spread onions, then pepper, carrots, and then tomatoes. Stew the vegetables until soft and add salt.
Now back to the eggplant. They must be thoroughly washed, removing salt. Next, fry them in oil until a beautiful crust. We put the finished blue in a saucepan, and pour the vegetable mass on top. Add the greens and pulp of garlic. We bring the sauté to a boil and simmer over very low heat for ten minutes. At the very end of the cooking process, if necessary, add salt.
Don't know what to cook with eggplant? The recipes in this article will help you navigate the variety of dishes. Be sure to pay attention to the honeycomb. Such a dish by the way on any table. It can be served not only hot but also cold.
Caviar
Blue caviar is one of the most famous dishes from this vegetable. A delicious snack is prepared not only on the table, but also as a winter preparation. It’s hard to find a replacement for such a beautiful dish. How to cook eggplant caviar?
In fact, there are no difficulties in preparing such an appetizer. There are many variations on this subject. We will give only one of the recipes.
Ingredients:
- three kg of blue
- sweet pepper (340 g),
- garlic,
- tomatoes (340 g),
- sugar,
- vegetable oil,
- basil,
- cilantro
- salt.
For cooking, we will use baked eggplant. We cut the blue ones into two parts along and send to a baking sheet, oiled. Slices of the vegetable are also processed with oil. Blue bake in the oven for 25 minutes. After we take them out of the stove and allow to cool. We easily peel the baked vegetables. Finely chop the flesh with a knife. Pepper and onion are also diced. But it is better to chop the tomatoes on a grater, having previously removed the hard peel. By the way, you can use a blender.
Next we need thick-walled dishes. We put it on the stove and heat the oil. Fry the onion for a couple of minutes, add pepper and cook another five minutes. Last pour the tomato mass. Stew it on the smallest fire for five minutes, without ceasing to interfere. Now that the vegetable mass is ready, add the blue ones. Stew caviar for another seven minutes. At the very end, add the greens and garlic. Caviar is ready to eat. By the way, such a dish is also prepared for the winter, only for this caviar must be sterilized.
Appetizer "like mushrooms"
Surely you have heard that you can cook eggplant, like mushrooms. And this is not an exaggeration. The slippery slices of blue really taste like mushrooms. A simple recipe allows you to cook the perfect dish without the hassle.
Ingredients:
- two kg of eggplant,
- greens,
- vinegar (11 tbsp. l),
- vegetable oil (330 ml),
- garlic,
- water (2.5 l),
- salt.
We put a large container with water on the stove, add vinegar and salt, and then bring to a boil. We wash the blue ones and cut them into cubes. If you want to achieve the similarity of the finished dish with mushrooms, then you need to cut off the skin. If external similarity is not important to you, then you can not do unnecessary work. Throw the prepared blue into boiling brine. After boiling, cook the vegetables for five minutes. Turn off the fire and tilt the pan to a colander and wait until the liquid drains (about an hour). It is impossible to squeeze out eggplants.
Chop greens and garlic. Mix them with oil and add to the cooled blue. Eggplant "like mushrooms" are ready. This is not the only recipe for cooking that resembles forest gifts to taste.
Eggplant with garlic
How to cook eggplant with garlic? Easy to prepare appetizer is very tasty. Blue itself has a specific taste that not everyone likes. However, in combination with many products, vegetables acquire a unique charm. Blue with garlic is a classic. A tasty and healthy dish is prepared incredibly fast. However, it can be varied by adding sour cream, other vegetables or cheese.
For cooking, you need to buy young blue ones.
Ingredients:
- garlic,
- eggplant
- salt,
- table vinegar
- greens,
- vegetable oil.
We carefully wash the eggplants, and then cut them into circles. As usual, they must be rubbed with salt and left for thirty minutes. After we wash the vegetables in running water. Next, dry the slices slightly with a towel. Grind greens and mix it with garlic mass, add a couple of drops of vinegar.
Fry eggplant in vegetable oil, put it on napkins to remove fat. Hot blue grease with a mixture of garlic and herbs. Twenty minutes later, the dish can be served.
Blue in a slow cooker
How to cook eggplant in a slow cooker? If your kitchen has this universal assistant, then with its help you can realize an incredible amount of recipes. In doing so, you spend the minimum amount of time. All the work for you will do the crock-pot. In addition, you will always get a tasty dish that will not burn or deteriorate.
Ingredients: we take all vegetables in three pieces - pepper, blue, tomato.
You will also need:
- one onion
- seasoning hops-suneli (tbsp. l.),
- as much tomato paste
- third of tsp ground pepper
- garlic,
- vegetable oil,
- greens.
Stewed eggplant in a slow cooker is the easiest dish. Blue mine and remove the skin from them. Next, cut them with washers with a thickness of not more than 1.5 centimeters. In order to remove the bitterness, pour the blue ones with salt and leave them for thirty minutes. After washing in running water and letting it drain. Next, we send the eggplant to the bowl of the multicooker. My bell pepper, remove seeds and films from it, and then cut into strips and send to blue. Shredded tomatoes and onions are also laid in a slow cooker. Salt and pepper the vegetable mass. You should definitely add a seasoning of hops-suneli. Pour in vegetable oil and put quite a bit of tomato paste. All vegetables are thoroughly mixed. Select the "Extinguishing" mode. Thirty minutes later, your dish will be ready. Prepared in this way, the blues retain their shape, but at the same time they become very soft and fragrant. Stewed eggplant can be served with herbs.
Eggplant with minced meat
How to cook eggplant with minced meat? There are many different recipes for blue meat. All of them are good in their own way and allow you to cook a tasty, satisfying, full-fledged dish, and not just a snack. Blue ones are very popular in Turkey. Local chefs cook them incredibly tasty in all kinds of combinations, using not only meat, but also other vegetables and products. One of these recipes is brought to your attention.
Ingredients:
- minced meat (340 g),
- three eggplants
- two tomatoes
- bow,
- a glass of tomato juice
- garlic,
- Bell pepper,
- salt,
- dried mint
- greens,
- ground pepper
- oregano
- vegetable oil.
We cut the young eggplants into rings and rub them with salt. Twenty minutes later, remove the released juice by wetting it with paper towels. Minced pepper and salt, and then add finely chopped onions. Mix the mass.
Now you can start cooking the sauce. To do this, fry the second part of the onion in a pan, adding vegetable oil to it. Scalp the tomatoes with boiling water and remove the peel. Dice tomatoes and sweet pepper. Add them to the onion in the pan. Stew vegetables, constantly stirring for about seven minutes. Next, add the tomato sauce and herbs, bring the mass to a boil. Also at this stage it is necessary to fill in all the spices.
Next we need an oval or round baking dish. We lubricate it with butter and spread in a circle blue circles, alternating with minced meat. Top the dish with tomato sauce. Next, bake vegetables for up to 45 minutes in the oven.
Eggplant Casserole
Continuing the conversation about how to cook delicious eggplant in the oven, I want to offer a wonderful recipe for casserole with chicken. Tomatoes and cheese complement the already delicious dish in the best way. By the way, a low-calorie and diet dish can be used even by those on a diet.
Ingredients:
- tomatoes (135 g),
- eggplant (230 g),
- kilogram of fillet,
- soy sauce (20 g),
- cheese (135 g)
- butter (25 g),
- salt.
Cut the chicken fillet into thin slices, put them in a bowl and add soy sauce. The meat is left to marinate for a while. Meanwhile, we cut the eggplants in equal circles, rub them with salt so that the bitterness goes away. Tomatoes cut into half rings.
Now we take the form, lubricate its entire surface with vegetable oil. At the bottom we spread a layer of meat, then eggplant, which we sprinkle with half the grated cheese we have, spread the tomatoes on top. Casserole sent to the oven. There she cooks for thirty minutes, after which she can be taken out and sprinkled with a second portion of cheese. Next, cook another twenty minutes. After the casserole, serve.
Korean eggplant
Among the readers there are many lovers of spicy Korean snacks. However, it is not necessary to purchase them in a store. Such dishes are very easy to cook at home. Korean eggplants are as easy to prepare as everyone's favorite hot carrots.
Ingredients:
- three tomatoes
- four eggplants
- two sweet peppers
- bow,
- carrot,
- pepper,
- garlic,
- two tsp ground coriander
- two tbsp. l vinegar
- the same amount of lemon juice and soy sauce,
- sesame seeds (two tsp),
- salt,
- vegetable oil,
- honey (tsp)
- sugar (tsp)
We wash the eggplants and cut them into long slices. Sprinkle with salt on top and leave for half an hour. Meanwhile, we chop the onions, finely chop the greens, we pass the garlic through a press.
Peel and grate the carrots, cut the pepper into slices, and cut the tomato into cubes. Wash the blue slices in cold water and wring out. In a pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the eggplant in it. Cook them on medium heat for about seven to ten minutes. After spread in the dishes and let cool. We transfer all vegetables to the same dishes, mix them and add coriander, sesame, pepper, garlic, as well as honey and herbs. Mix the ingredients and add the vinegar and soy sauce. Also, if desired, you can pour vegetable oil. We transfer the appetizer into a sealed container and send it to the refrigerator. After a day, it can be put on the table.
Instead of an afterword
As you can see, a lot of delicious and wonderful dishes can be prepared from eggplant. In our article we have given only some recipes. In fact, there are a lot of them. Therefore, you can cook something new and tasty every time. Blue is also very popular as winter blanks. We hope that our recipes will help you figure out how to cook eggplant properly.