How to cook eggplant

How to cook eggplant? This question is often asked and experienced housewives, and beginners culinary. Eggplant is an excellent snack at all seasons. And this is proof that in the wonderful town of Palermo in Sicily annually passes the Eggplant Olympics. And some scientists argue, arguing that the eggplant is not a vegetable at all, but a berry. Let's find out the options for how to cook eggplant.

Choose eggplant

The way your eggplant dish tastes good depends on their ripeness. To know the degree of maturity of eggplant, you need to weigh it in your own hand. Ripe eggplant is heavier than immature. Examine it from all sides: the skin should be perfectly smooth, the eggplant should not have scratches, dents and stains. Otherwise, it can be rotten from the inside or hard.

On a ripe eggplant, when you press it with your finger, a small dent will appear, but it must disappear. In a ripe eggplant, the dent will remain, and in immature will not appear.

How to cook eggplant

Some housewives ask themselves the question: "What can you cook from aubergines?". The answer is obvious: everything that your heart desires. This can be an appetizer or main course. A large number of countries use eggplant in their national culinary dishes. For example: Greece - in "Musak", Italy - in "Ratatu", Georgia - in "Satsivi".

So, how to cook eggplant. For cooking any dishes from eggplant, you must first cut them, add salt and leave for 10 minutes. This is to ensure that out of the eggplant with the juice came out extra bitterness. After that, the eggplant should be thoroughly rinsed under water and dried with a paper towel.

Eggplant Dishes

Eggplants stuffed with meat and vegetables, baked in the oven. The dish turns out to be incredibly tasty and quick. Eggplants are cut in half, the flesh is cut. And cut into cubes, then salted and left for 10 minutes to release, along with the juice bitterness. Then the pulp is thoroughly washed with water. Meanwhile, finely chopped onions with a clove of garlic are fried in a frying pan, minced meat is added and fried for about 10 minutes on medium heat. Tomato and Bulgarian pepper are cut into cubes. Cheese rubs on a large grater. Mix the minced meat with vegetables and fill the boats with stuffing. Sprinkle the top of the dish with cheese. Baked eggplants in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees for an hour. The dish is ready!

Appetizer from eggplant. This snack is prepared quite quickly and is very popular with the guests. Eggplants are cut in circles about 5 mm thick, sprinkled with salt and left for 10 minutes. Then they should be washed and dried. After dipping in flour, fry until ruddy in a pan. Cooking stuffing: finely chopped onion is fried, it is added grated carrots on a large grater and diced Bulgarian pepper. All this is fried for 1 minute, then add ½ teaspoon vinegar, pressed garlic clove. Another minute fry. Filling with salt and pepper to taste. Aubergine circle rubbed with garlic, top with some mayonnaise, then put a little stuffing and cover with a slice of fresh tomato. And so with each eggplant. To make the dish look even more beautiful, the plate can be decorated with lettuce leaves, and the eggplant from above with greens. Bon Appetit. Now we know how to prepare aubergines deliciously and diversely.

Eggplant dishes are very plentiful: rolls with a variety of stuffing, eggplant caviar, winter salads, hot salads and much more. Try and experiment.

Eggplants are not stored for a long time, so do not store them for future use, and also store them strictly in the refrigerator. Do not pepper the dish from the eggplant, as the vegetable has its own specific taste with a little bitterness. And also do not forget before cooking to properly soak the eggplant, and then your dishes will be impeccably delicious.