Eggplant can be frozen for the winter in many ways. Today we will present two options, one of which provides for preliminary roasting, and the other - baking in the oven.
1. Harvesting eggplant for the winter: freezing vegetables to prepare snacks
Essential Ingredients:
- Refined sunflower oil - 1/3 cup (for roasting);
- wheat flour - a few spoons (for dipping);
- medium-sized young eggplants - 3-4 pcs.;
- small iodized salt - a dessert spoon.
Vegetable processing
Eggplant freezing for the winter is quite easy. This recipe is designed to make a quick and very tasty snack from prepared vegetables. To do this, you need to take a few young eggplants, and then wash them, cut the stem and chop into 1 cm thick circles.
Heat treatment and freezing vegetables
After the main vegetable is processed properly, it should be flavored with fine iodized salt, and then roll in wheat flour. Next, the eggplant circles must be fried on 2 sides in vegetable oil.
To freeze prepared vegetables, they need to be dipped on paper napkins, losing fat as much as possible, and then condemned and layered in a large plastic bag. After this, the fried products must be placed in the freezer, and when they harden, knock them in a pile and store in this position until the 1st year.
This freezing eggplant for the winter is well suited for the further preparation of quick snacks. This requires defrosting vegetables at room temperature, and then apply mayonnaise with garlic and grated cheese.
2. Eggplant freezing at home for salads and main dishes
Essential Ingredients:
- sunflower oil - a few tablespoons;
- young eggplants - a few pcs.
Cooking process
This recipe is good to use for those cases when you want to make vegetable stew or some salad using eggplant. To do this, take a few young vegetables, and then wash them well, dry with a towel, grease with vegetable oil and place on the oven grate. Next, eggplant must be baked until they become soft.
To freeze the presented component for the winter, it should be taken out of the oven in finished form, and, holding the tail, remove all the peel from it (directly hot). In this case, the vegetable should maintain its holistic appearance. After that, the eggplant needs to be cooled and put in a bag (2 or 3 vegetables can be placed in one bag).
When the peeled products are packed, they must be placed in the freezer and kept in it until you need them for culinary achievements.
As you can see, such freezing of eggplants for the winter is quite easy and simple. If necessary, the prepared frozen product can be thawed both at room temperature and in the microwave. The taste and texture of this vegetable is practically no different from fresh.