Eggplants are unusually healthy vegetables. Eggplant dishes take one of the first places on the table in the summer. A separate role is assigned to eggplant caviar. Caviar from eggplant or, as they are also called, "blue", is a delicious and nutritious snack. Each housewife cooks this caviar in her own way. There is a huge number of eggplant recipes from eggplant. Below are the most popular and convenient recipes, how to cook eggplant caviar.
Recipe for caviar from baked eggplant
To prepare eggs from eggplants, the following foods are needed: 3 kilograms of aubergines, 300 grams of bell pepper, onions and tomatoes, 15 cloves of garlic, greens, vegetable oil, salt, pepper.
Eggplants need to be washed, put on a baking sheet and sent to bake in a well-heated oven for 40-50 minutes. Check the eggplant is ready with a knife or fork - ready eggplants are easily pierced. After baking, vegetables should be cooled and peeled. With baked eggplants, the skin is removed very easily. Flesh the eggplant on a cutting board and chop it with a knife so that it turns into a homogeneous porridge.
Onions need to be peeled and finely chopped, peppers peeled of seeds, grated tomatoes. Onions are fried in vegetable oil for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes, add peppers to it, after another 10 minutes put the grated tomatoes on the pan. All together should be fried for 5 minutes, stirring with a spoon. After that, add the eggplants to the vegetables, simmer under the closed lid for another 10 minutes and remove from heat.
Garlic cloves must be passed through a press and added to the caviar. Also, add salt, pepper and finely chopped greens. Caviar should be served to a chilled table.
Eggplant caviar, cooked according to this recipe, can be rolled for the winter. To do this, the hot caviar should be spread over the cooked clean jars and tighten. Cooking eggs from eggplants for the winter in winter allow you to get the most necessary vitamins for the human body. Preserving caviar from eggplants makes it possible to preserve all useful substances of these vegetables for a long time.
Raw eggplant caviar
To prepare raw eggs from eggplant you will need: 1 kg of eggplant, 3 tomatoes, 1 large onion, 4 small Bulgarian pepper, vegetable oil, salt and pepper. Although caviar is called "raw", eggplant for it must be baked or boiled. After they cool, peel.
The remaining vegetables should be finely chopped and mixed. Blue - can be chopped with a knife or chopped into a blender. All the ingredients of the caviar are mixed, add to them oil, pepper and salt. Such eggplant caviar can be served immediately on the table.
Eggplant caviar and courgette
To prepare caviar from eggplant and courgettes the following products are needed: 5 kilograms
Before you prepare caviar from eggplant and zucchini, the blue ones should be washed, brushed, cut and cooked in salt water until they become soft. Squash to wash, peel and cut into small cubes. Carrots grate on a large grater, onions - finely chopped, tomatoes - grate. Squash with carrots, onions and tomatoes to mix and fry in vegetable oil for 10 minutes, then add to them finely chopped boiled eggplants. All together, vegetables should be stewed for 40 minutes. After this, the eggs can be rolled in cans for the winter or cooled and served to the table.
Eggplant caviar in Odessa
The recipe for eggplant caviar in Odessa is similar to the recipe for baked eggplant. The difference is that in addition to eggplant, the oven should be baked and peppers. Next, cook caviar in a traditional way.