The most delicious eggplant recipes

2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00

• Category:

  Second courses

• Cooking time:

  1-1.5 hours

Ingredients

• eggplant
• tomatoes
• mayonnaise
• garlic
• flour
• salt
• sunflower oil

Eggplant dishes are cooked all over the world. This blue vegetable goes well with many ingredients, be it vegetables, meat or cheese. And if you have never cooked eggplants, then we offer several simple recipes with photos of delicious dishes.

Fried eggplant with tomatoes and garlic

Pan-fried eggplants with garlic and tomatoes are a culinary classic. Despite the fact that the recipe is very simple, the dish turns out to be tasty, bright and appetizing, just like in the photo.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggplants;
• 3-4 tomatoes;
• mayonnaise;
• 2-4 cloves of garlic;
• 2 tbsp. l. flour;
• salt to taste;
• vegetable oil for frying.

Preparation:

We wash the eggplants under running water, dry and cut into slices a little more than 0.5 cm thick

Since the vegetable contains solanine, a bitter-tasting substance, it is imperative to get rid of it. And for this we sprinkle the blue ones with salt and leave for half an hour. During this time, the vegetables will give juice, with which the bitter taste will go away

So, squeeze the eggplants from the juice that has come out, breaded in flour and fry in oil until golden brown. Then we transfer it to a napkin to remove excess fat

Tomatoes, like blue ones, are cut into circles

Cooking the sauce: pour the pressed cloves of a spicy vegetable into mayonnaise and mix. We take garlic to taste, who likes it sharper, put more, and vice versa

Put the eggplants on a wide dish, grease with garlic sauce and put a circle of tomato on top. That's all, a delicious and aromatic appetizer is ready, you can serve it to the table.

Pickled eggplant - quick recipe

Eggplant can be used to prepare a variety of dietary, but delicious dishes. The proposed recipe with a photo will surely appeal to those who love vegetable snacks with a spicy taste. All the ingredients used are simple and affordable. The very process of making pickled eggplants is very easy and, most importantly, fast.

Ingredients:

• 1, 2 kg eggplant;
• 3 sweet peppers;
• a bunch of parsley;
• 6-7 cloves of garlic;
• 1 salad onion;
• 1 carrot;
• 1 hot pepper;
• 2 tsp salt;
• 2 tsp Sahara;
• 2 tsp ground coriander;
• 8 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 5 tbsp. l. vinegar (9%).

Preparation:

Cut off the stalks from the eggplants and prick the fruits with a fork quite often

Boil the blue ones for 10-15 minutes, the vegetables should become soft

Grate the carrots, chop the onion in half rings, chop the garlic cloves with plates. Cut sweet peppers into strips, chop hot peppers and parsley peeled from seeds

Now pour hot and sweet peppers, onions, parsley, garlic and carrots into a bowl. As well as salt, sugar and ground pepper. Mix the ingredients well with your hands so that the vegetables give juice

• Cool the eggplants and cut into cubes.
• We take a suitable container, you can use a saucepan, lay out a thin layer of vegetables, then a layer of blue ones, and in this sequence we lay out all the ingredients.

Next, mix the oil with vinegar and marinade, pour the contents of the pan, put a plate on top and put the load

We send the eggplants to a cool place for 24 hours and after a day we serve a spicy, tasty and aromatic snack to the table.

Eggplant Pisto

Pisto is a vegetable stew often made in Spain. The proposed recipe with a photo of such an eggplant dish will certainly appeal to many housewives, because it is dietary, tasty and easy to prepare.

Ingredients:

• 250 g eggplant;
• 500 g of tomatoes;
• 150 g sweet green pepper;
• 150 g sweet red pepper;
• 200 g of onions;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• 6 tbsp. l. olive oil;
• 1 tsp paprika;
• 2-3 pinches of sugar;
• salt to taste;
• 1 tbsp. l.tomato paste (if necessary);
• red and black pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Chop the cloves of a spicy vegetable, also chop the onion into small cubes

Heat the oil in a deep frying pan, add the onion and garlic, fry until soft, 7-8 minutes

Then add the red and green bell peppers, cut into cubes, and fry for another 7-8 minutes

Cut the eggplants into cubes and send them to the vegetables, with occasional stirring, fry for 12-15 minutes

And the last to add are the tomatoes cut into wedges along with paprika, salt, red and black pepper, and sugar. If the tomatoes are not very ripe, then add tomato paste

Cook the dish for another 15 minutes and remove from heat

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If desired, the pisto can be prepared with fried eggs. To do this, 5 minutes before cooking, make a depression in the vegetable stew, drive in an egg and cover with a lid.

Eggplant appetizer with vegetable filling

Another option for those who follow a diet. This is a recipe for eggplant boats with vegetable filling. The dish turns out to be nutritious, tasty and beautiful, as in the photo. The recipe for the appetizer itself is very simple and quick.

Ingredients:

• 1.5 kg eggplant;
• 2 sweet peppers;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 carrot;
• 4 cloves of garlic;
• hot peppers to taste;
• 2 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 3 tbsp. l. Sahara;
• 2 tbsp. l. salt;
• 3 tbsp. l. vinegar;
• peppercorns to taste;
• basil to taste;
• parsley to taste;
• 2 bay leaves.

Preparation:

Put the pot of water on the fire, add a spoonful of salt and bring to a boil. We cut off the stalks from the blue ones, make cuts along the fruits with a knife so that we get a kind of pockets

Dip the fruits in boiling water and cook for 20 minutes

• Pour about 250 ml of water into a saucepan, add peppercorns to taste and put bay leaves. Also pour in 2 tablespoons of sugar and a spoonful of salt.
• We send it to the fire, bring it to a boil, turn off the heating. Pour in vinegar and oil, mix and leave the marinade to cool completely.

Cut sweet peppers and tomatoes into small cubes. Put the vegetables in a bowl and add the pressed garlic cloves to them

Also, in a bowl with vegetables, pour finely chopped parsley and basil, chopped carrots and finely chopped hot peppers

We put the finished eggplants in a colander and put a load on them so that all excess liquid comes out of the fruits

Mix the vegetables well and stuff the eggplants with the resulting filling

We put the stuffed blue ones in a bowl or saucepan, fill with marinade, cover and put in a cool place for 4 hours, or better all night.

Eggplant with minced meat - delicious Turkish recipe

Eggplant dishes are often prepared in Turkey. We offer a very simple recipe with a photo of one of these dishes with minced meat, which the male half will especially like. Eggplants with juicy meat filling are soft and very tasty. They can be served as a main course or as a side dish with rice or potatoes.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggplants;
• 250 g minced meat;
• 1 onion;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 2 hot peppers;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 2 tbsp. l. tomato paste;
• a bunch of parsley;
• 1 tsp salt;
• 1 tsp pepper;
• 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil;
• 2 glasses of water.

Preparation:

Finely chop the peeled onions and pour into a pan with heated oil, sauté until golden

• Then spread the minced meat to the vegetable. We take lamb or beef, do not forget that pork is not eaten in Turkey.
• Fry minced meat with onions for 3-4 minutes and add 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, mix, fry for another 1 minute.

Peel off the peel from the tomatoes, grate the pulp or use a blender for chopping

• Pour the tomato mass into a frying pan with the contents, mix and simmer for 3-4 minutes. Now add garlic cloves passed through a press to the ingredients, chopped hot pepper. Also add salt, pepper, mix and after 10 minutes add parsley, mix everything well and remove from heat.
• We take the eggplants, wash them, leave the stalks, and, as shown in the photo, cut out the core.

Inside the little blue ones, add a little salt, fill them with meat filling and put them in the mold. Put a pod of red pepper and a slice of tomato on top

Pour 2 cups of water into a deep bowl and stir in the tomato paste along with salt and pepper. Pour the resulting mixture into a mold for stuffed eggplant

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We send the blue ones to the oven for 45 minutes, the temperature is 200 ° C. Be sure to serve ready-made eggplants with gravy.

Baked eggplant with chicken meat

You can cook a wide variety of eggplant dishes in the oven. One of the simple recipes is baked blue ones with chicken. The dish turns out to be hearty, tasty, very appetizing and tender, as in the presented photos.

Ingredients:

• 2 eggplants;
• 600 g chicken fillet;
• 180 g of hard cheese;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 2 tbsp. l. soy sauce;
• salt and pepper to taste;
• garlic to taste;
• seasonings for chicken to taste;
• parsley and dill.

For the sauce:

• 2 tbsp. l. sour cream;
• 2 tsp tomato ketchup;
• salt and herbs to taste.

Preparation:

We wash the poultry fillet, dry it, cut it into plates, put it in a bowl

Pour soy sauce into the meat, add any seasonings for chicken, mix and leave the fillets to marinate for 15 minutes

Cut the prepared eggplant fruits into circles, sprinkle with salt and leave for a while until a dark bitter juice is released from the vegetables, which must then be drained

We cut the cheese into thin plates, but you can also grind it on a regular coarse grater

Cut the tomatoes into half rings. Finely chop the dill and parsley

We take a baking dish and lay out the eggplants in the first layer, sprinkle with cheese and lay out the pickled chicken pieces on top

Put tomatoes on the meat and blue ones again

We prepare the sauce and for this we simply mix sour cream of any fat content with tomato ketchup. Add any spices and herbs if desired

Pour the contents of the form with sour cream sauce and send it to the oven for 50 minutes, temperature 180 ° C

After the casserole is taken out of the oven, sprinkle with chopped garlic and the remaining cheese. We return to the oven, and after the cheese has melted, you can serve the dish to the table, sprinkling with fresh herbs.

Eggplant caviar in a slow cooker

Many housewives love to cook dishes in a slow cooker, even from eggplant. So with the help of such a kitchen appliance, you can cook delicious eggplant caviar. The recipe with a photo is very simple and is suitable for both an everyday table and for winter preparation.

Ingredients:

• 3 eggplants;
• 2 carrots;
• 2 onions;
• 2 sweet peppers;
• 3 tomatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• salt and pepper to taste.

Preparation:

Peel the eggplants, grind them into cubes, put them in a bowl and fill them with brine from 1 liter of water and 1 tbsp. tablespoons of salt

Pour oil into the multicooker bowl, turn on the “Frying” mode and, as soon as the oil warms up, add finely chopped onions and sauté until transparent

We pass the carrots through the grater and send them to the onion vegetable, fry for 5 minutes. Then cut the bell peppers into cubes, add them to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients and fry for another 5 minutes

We take out the eggplants from the brine, let the excess liquid drain and put it with the vegetables, fry for 10 minutes

Now add the diced tomatoes along with the chopped garlic, salt and pepper. From the “Frying” mode we switch to the “Stewing” program and cook the caviar for 50 minutes. Add herbs at the end of cooking if desired

After the signal, the caviar will be ready, it can be served immediately, but it is also very tasty when cold. If you increase the amount of ingredients, then you can decompose the caviar into sterile jars and preserve a delicious snack for the winter.

Eggplant lecho for the winter

For the winter, you can prepare a variety of eggplant snacks. For example, a dish like lecho, which is simple and easy to prepare. Thanks to a step-by-step recipe with a photo, each housewife will be able to prepare a delicious winter vegetable preparation.

Ingredients:

• 2 kg eggplant;
• 500 g sweet pepper;
• 500 g carrots;
• 500 g onions;
• 1 kg of tomatoes;
• 5 cloves of garlic;
• 100 g sugar;
• 2 tbsp. l. salt;
• 70 ml vinegar;
• 250 ml of vegetable oil.

Preparation:

Cut the prepared eggplants into small cubes, put them in boiling salted water, cook for 5 minutes. Then we put it in a colander and cool

Chop peeled sweet peppers into strips

Cut the tomatoes in half and pass through a grater

Chop the peeled onion into quarters or strips, pour into a deep roasting pan with hot oil and fry until tender. Now add the grated carrots to the onion vegetable and fry the ingredients for 10 minutes

Next, lay out the bell peppers and then send the grated tomatoes

We also lay the eggplants, mix and simmer for 40 minutes

In the process of stewing, add salt and sugar and pour in vinegar. At the very end, put finely chopped garlic

We lay out the finished lecho in sterilized jars, roll it up, cool it under a warm blanket and put it in storage.

Eggplant dishes are always tasty and nutritious. The proposed recipes with photos are simple, do not require special knowledge of cooking and time. The main thing is to choose good fruits with smooth and shiny skin.