Eggplants are very fond of housewives for theirunpretentiousness and convenience in cooking. Due to the fact that the vegetable has a neutral taste, it is perfectly combined with meat, suitable as an ingredient for ragout, saltwort and other dishes. It can also be marinated and made for winter. Today in this article we will look at how to bake eggplants. Agree, this method of cooking is much more useful than frying in a lot of oil, because "blue" soaks up fat like a sponge, and the dish becomes even appetizing, but extremely high-calorie. To avoid this, it is best to cook the vegetable in the oven.
Baked eggplants with minced meat: we prepare "boats" with stuffing and cheese crust
This dish can also be served for the festivethe table, because it's not just vegetables cut into pieces, and the "boats" inside which are hidden delicious minced meat, moreover, on top there will be a ruddy cheese crust - no one will be able to resist. For a dish you will need:
- 4 medium-sized eggplants - it is best to take vegetables with an elongated shape and large diameter;
- 400 gr. any minced meat - from pork, beef or chicken;
- 1 pc. tomatoes and onions, as well as a clove of garlic;
- 200 gr. "Parmesan" or other hard cheese;
- little by little parsley and dill, salt with pepper and mayonnaise.
Bake eggplants in this case is very simple:first prepare the vegetables: wash, cut in half, salt and fold in a bowl - they should stand up a little and give juice. After 20 minutes, the juice should be drained, the vegetables washed and cut out with a spoon with the flesh. You should get "boats" with walls 1 cm thick. The flesh needs to be cut into cubes. The billet should be laid out on a baking tray, oiled with eggplant oil and baked for 15 minutes (the oven should be heated to 230 degrees). During this time, prepare the filling: remove the peel from the tomatoes, they need to be boiled for this, so the skin is removed very simply, and after the flesh it should be cut into cubes. Finely chop the onions, garlic and greens. Fry the vegetables in a frying pan - first the flesh of the eggplant, then add the onion and garlic, salt, pepper and place in a bowl. After the same must be done with minced meat. When the meat is ready, combine it with the fried vegetables - the filling has turned out. Then take out semi-finished "boats" from the oven, stuff them with a mixture of minced meat and vegetables, generously sprinkle with chopped "Parmesan" and send them to the oven for half an hour. By the way, you can bake aubergines without meat - then you will get a vegetarian dish. In the filling you can put fried Bulgarian pepper and zucchini. Then the dish will turn out not only fully vegetable, but also low-calorie. That's just the cheese in this case you need to take as little as possible.
Aubergines baked whole
In most dishes we are accustomed to adding vegetables,cut into pieces or plates, but in this recipe it is suggested to prepare whole eggplants and serve with sauce from mayonnaise (sour cream) and garlic, they can also be added to salads, previously cut into pieces, or used as a garnish. Take the necessary amount of aubergines, wash, cut off the green top. To make the vegetable better, on one side make 2-3 punctures with a fork. Put them on the grate, put a baking sheet under it. Bake the eggplant at the maximum temperature for 40 minutes. Eggplants are very tasty with meat, so if you are looking for a delicious and original garnish for the second, so cooked eggplant will be the right choice.
