Eggplant rolls: recipes with different fillings

What are eggplant rolls? How to make them? You will find answers to these and other questions in the article. Eggplant rolls are an original, tasty and healthy dish. They are good for both everyday and festive cuisine. If you fill them with different fillings and decorate them in an original way, your guests will be delighted.

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Have you ever cooked eggplant rolls? They can be either an independent dish or an uncomplicated snack. Various products are perfectly combined with eggplant - cheese, meat, mushrooms, vegetables, poultry.

Before cooking, it is necessary to wash the eggplants, cut the ponytails, cut into 0.5 cm plates. If they turn out thicker, then it will be more difficult to fry them. However, one should not cut too thinly, otherwise the dish will turn out ugly.

Experienced housewives recommend sprinkled chopped vegetables with salt and set aside for 15 minutes. Thanks to this technique, you can get rid of bitterness. Next, the salt needs to be washed off, dried vegetables with a cloth and start cooking. Usually eggplant is fried in sunflower oil in flour on both sides.

The chopped garlic is mixed with mayonnaise, greased one side of the plate, roll it with a roll so that the mayonnaise is inside. Prepared eggplant rolls are decorated with parsley. Some cook this dish with tomatoes. In this case, the eggplant is dipped in an egg, and the filling is created from tomatoes, combined with dill and garlic. For piquancy, you can add hard cheese, crushed with a fine grater.

Since eggplants absorb a lot of oil, the dish can turn out to be very high-calorie. If you are on a diet, grill this vegetable. Also, the energy value of the food can be reduced if you refuse mayonnaise or use low-fat sour cream.

Unusual rolls are obtained with ham and chicken. They need to be cooked the same way. The only difference is that ham can be used immediately, and chicken fillet will have to be prepared in advance.

With cheese and garlic

How to cook eggplant rolls with cheese and garlic? This is a great summer snack. She is great for barbecue in the fresh air. If you make this dish on coals, it will turn out even more appetizing. We take:

• three cloves of garlic;
• one eggplant;
• three branches of dill;
• 50 g of cheese;
• three tbsp. l mayonnaise;
• salt;
• a couple of tbsp. l vegetable oil.
  

Cook eggplant rolls with cheese and garlic like this:

1. Wash the eggplant and cut into strips, the thickness of which is 1 cm. Next, salt it and leave it for 10 minutes. As a result, it will not be bitter and will absorb less oil during cooking. Then blot out the juice that has stood out.
2. Now grind the cheese on a fine grater, finely chop the greens, squeeze the garlic through a press. Add mayonnaise and mix.
3. In a grill pan (or regular), heat the lean oil. Fry the eggplant on both sides for 3 minutes until cooked.
4. Put the filling on each slice and wrap it in a roll.

With cheese and walnuts

Everyone likes eggplant rolls with walnuts and cheese. To create them you need to have:

• one eggplant;
• 30 g walnuts;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• cheese (100 g);
• 25 g mayonnaise;
• dill;
• parsley.
  

Cook eggplant rolls with walnuts and cheese in this way:

1. Cut thin unpeeled eggplants into thin slices, sprinkle with salt and set aside for 15 minutes. Then rinse in water and put on a pre-heated frying pan with oil.
2. Fry on both sides until cooked. Place on a paper towel to allow the oil to drain.
3. Make the filling. To do this, grate grated cheese, add chopped garlic and walnuts, combine with mayonnaise and mix. If desired, add chopped dill or parsley.
4. Spread a thin layer of filling on a slice of eggplant, roll tightly. If you want, you can fix the resulting roll with a canapé skewer or lightly fry.

Let the food brew in a cold room and serve.

Lean rolls vitamin

And how to make lean eggplant rolls? You will need:

• two tomatoes;
• two eggplants;
• half a carrot;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• lean oil for frying;
• salt;
• greens.
  

Cook this dish like this:

1. Cut the eggplant along thin plates, salt and leave for half an hour, so that the bitterness disappears. Then rinse with water and pat dry with a towel.
2. Grate the carrots.
3. Grind the garlic and cut the strips of tomatoes.
4. Fry the eggplant in a hot skillet in oil until brown on both sides. Spread them with garlic, then on the edge lay strips of tomatoes and carrots. Now roll the rolls and place them seam down on the dish.

Thanks to tomatoes, this dish is not sugary and very juicy.

In Georgian

Let’s find out how to cook Georgian eggplant rolls with nuts. This beautiful and delicious dish will appeal to absolutely everyone. You will need:

• 1 tbsp. nuts
• four eggplant;
• three cloves of garlic;
• frying oil;
• cilantro;
• 0.5 tsp wine vinegar;
• pomegranate seeds (for decoration);
• 1 tsp hops suneli.
  

This dish must be prepared in this way:

1. Cut the eggplant into thin slices over the entire length. Fry in oil and put on a paper napkin.
2. Now cook up the filling. Chop the garlic, crumble the nuts, finely chop the cilantro, combine and mix. Add vinegar, suneli hops, a little hot water here to make the mass softer.
3. On each layer of eggplant lay out a spoonful of the filling, roll up the roll. You can chop with a toothpick so that the products do not unfold.
4. Put on a dish, garnish with fresh herbs, sprinkle with pomegranate seeds and serve.

With feta cheese and tomatoes

Consider a recipe for eggplant rolls with feta cheese and tomatoes. To make this dish, take:

• two cloves of garlic;
• two eggplants;
• one egg;
• two tomatoes;
• a bunch of greenery;
• 100 g of feta cheese;
• 100 ml of vegetable oil;
• ground black pepper.

This dish must be prepared as follows:

1. Slice the eggplant along long plates, dip in the egg with salt and fry in a hot skillet in vegetable oil.
2. Mash the feta cheese with a fork, mix it with black pepper, garlic and chopped herbs.
3. Cut the tomatoes into small slices.
4. Smear a plate of eggplant with a mixture of feta cheese, lay a slice of tomato and roll it into a roll.

Cooking in the oven

Now let's try to cook eggplant roll in the oven. You should have an incredibly tasty dish. So, we take:

• one onion;
• two eggplants;
• a pound of minced meat;
• a bunch of cilantro;
• vegetable oil;
• three cloves of garlic;
• three tomatoes;
• pepper, salt (to taste);
• one egg;
• tomato paste (2 tbsp. l.).
  

Prepare this dish like this:

1. Cut the eggplant lengthwise into thin strips. Fry them in vegetable oil.
2. To create the filling, grate the onion in the forcemeat, chop the garlic, add pepper, salt and chopped cilantro. Combine with the egg and mix thoroughly with your hands until smooth.
3. Put the eggplant strips in two crosswise, put the minced meat on them and roll them up with an envelope. Secure with a toothpick and place on a baking sheet.
4. Combine the tomato paste with a glass of water, grate the tomatoes on a grater. Mix thoroughly, salt and pepper. Pour the eggplant with the mixture and send for half an hour to the oven, heated to 180 ° C.

With carrots

So, you already know how to cook eggplant rolls with different fillings. We present you another interesting recipe. Take:

• 1 clove of garlic;
• two eggplants;
• three carrots;
• a pinch of black pepper;
• mayonnaise (two tablespoons).

Cook this dish like this:

1. Wash and cut the eggplants in thin layers along. Sprinkle with salt and leave for 10 minutes. You can also cook them immediately.
2. Sauté the eggplant until golden in vegetable oil. Put the finished slices on a paper towel to remove excess fat.
3. Peel the carrots and grind with a fine grater, combine with chopped garlic and mayonnaise. Pepper and mix the filling. If you wish, you can add grated cheese, chopped nuts and so on.
4. Put the filling on the eggplant slices and roll the rolls.

This dish can be served immediately, but the next day it will be even tastier.

Baked pepper and eggplant roll

To create this dish, take:

• 5 cloves of garlic;
• three eggplants;
• five bell peppers (red);
• salt (1/2 tsp);
• half a bunch of dill;
• quarter tsp black pepper;
• half a bunch of parsley;
• a couple of tbsp. l lean oil;
• three tbsp. l soy sauce.
  

You need to cook this dish like this:

1. Wash the pepper, dry and bake in the oven until black tan. Then transfer to a bag and leave for 10 minutes. Next, remove the peel, remove the seeds, and cut into two parts.
2. Combine vegetable oil and soy sauce.
3. Cut the eggplants into plates, spread butter on both sides and soy sauce, spread on a baking sheet covered with baking paper. Bake for 15 minutes at 180 ° C. Chill.
4. Finely chop dill and parsley, add chopped garlic, mix.
5. Spread cellophane on the table, put on it plates of eggplant (6 pieces wide and 2 pieces long).
6. Sprinkle with garlic, salt, herbs and pepper. Next, spread across the halves of peppers in the entire length of the roll (leaving free 4 cm at the end) and also sprinkle with pepper and salt.
7. Roll the roll in width with cellophane. Take away for three hours in the refrigerator, you can at night.

With meat and sauce

To create this dish you need to have:

• three eggplants;
• 1 tbsp. rice (slightly undercooked);
• 200 g of any minced meat;
• ½ tsp ground black pepper;
• three tbsp. l soya sauce;
• 0.5 tsp dried basil;
• lean oil for frying;
• ½ tsp ground coriander;
• one bell pepper;
• salt (1 tsp).

Prepare gravy from the following components:

• one onion;
• one carrot;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• hot red pepper;
• 200 ml of tomato juice;
• sugar (1 tsp);
• cream (200 ml);
• salts;
• 250 ml of boiled (warm) water;
• 4 sprigs of parsley;
• flour (1 tbsp. l.);
• ½ tsp black pepper.

So follow these steps:

1. Cut the eggplant into thin slices, put in a colander, salt and mix. Put on a bowl to glass the liquid.
2. Next, mix the minced meat with rice, add basil, coriander, ground black pepper and soy sauce, stir.
3. Blot the eggplant with a paper towel and fry in a hot skillet in oil. You can use them without frying. Then you need to pour eggplant for two minutes with boiling water, then drain the water.
4. On each fried eggplant plate put a spoonful of minced meat, roll it up. Put on a plate and set aside.
5. Prepare gravy products. To do this, cut the onions in half rings, Bulgarian pepper - in strips, chop the carrots on a grater, crush the hot pepper.
6. Stew the vegetables in a preheated skillet: first, onion until transparent, then pour pepper and carrots. Simmer a couple of minutes over low heat.
7. Pour flour to the vegetables, stir.
8. Pour a glass of water warm, stir again.
9. Then add tomato juice, cream, pour sugar, salt, ground black pepper and let it boil for 2 minutes.
10. Now pour the parsley with garlic, stir and turn off the heat.
11. Pour a third of the gravy into the container, put the rolls. Pour the remaining gravy and put into the oven, heated to 170 ° C, for half an hour.

Serve this hot dish. Eat on health!