Eggplant in the oven with tomatoes and cheese is very juicy, hearty and tasty. It is worth noting that such a dish is most often served at the festive table as a fragrant snack.
How to cook eggplant in the oven with tomatoes and cheese
Essential Ingredients:
- small fresh garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- young medium-sized eggplant - 3 pcs.;
- ripe red tomato - 4 pcs.;
- hard cheese of any kind - 100 g;
- wheat flour - ½ cup;
- sunflower oil - at the discretion;
- small iodized salt - to taste;
- ground red pepper - to taste;
- green lettuce - for a beautiful presentation of the dish to the table;
- Fresh dill and parsley - for decoration.
Vegetable processing
To make the eggplants in the oven with tomatoes and cheese tasty and tender, it is recommended to use only fresh and young vegetables for such a dish. Thus, it is required to wash and peel red tomatoes and 3 medium eggplant from stalks. After this, the products should be chopped in circles with a thickness of not more than 1 cm. It is also necessary to peel 3-4 cloves of garlic and grate hard cheese of any kind on a large grater.
The process of frying the main ingredient in a pan:
Eggplants in the oven with tomatoes and cheese should be done only after the main product is fried. To do this, put a large frying pan on the fire, pour in
sunflower oil and bring it to a boil. Next, on the surface of the hot dishes, put the eggplant circles and lightly fry them on both sides. In order for the vegetables to be uniformly covered with a reddish crust, it is recommended to roll them in a small amount of wheat flour before frying.
Forming a vegetable dish
To prepare such a fragrant snack, it is necessary to prepare an oven sheet, which is preferably lightly greased with sunflower oil. After that, all processed foods must be laid out on a baking sheet in the following order: fried eggplant, tomatoes, garlic, cheese.
Heat treatment in the oven
In order to give such a fragrant snack a complete look, it should be placed in a preheated oven. The cooking time for this dish is only 20-22 minutes. During this short period, hard cheese will completely melt, and grated garlic will impregnate all the laid out ingredients with its aroma.
Proper serving
After the heat treatment, vegetable “sandwiches” must be laid out on a flat plate with a spatula, which should be covered with green salad leaves in advance. It is also recommended to sprinkle eggplant with fresh herbs. It is worth noting that such an appetizer is allowed to be served for dinner, both in a chilled state and in a warm form.
Now, thinking about how to decorate the festive table, you can safely use the described recipe. Eggplant, tomatoes, cheese and garlic play a major role in it, but this does not mean that any other ingredients cannot be used in such an appetizer.