Tips for starting a housewife: how to cook an eggplant in the oven

Berry eggplant - yes, contrary to popular belief, this is not a vegetable - came to us from India. However, she became so fond of our people, and she got on well with us in the kitchen gardens, which she received in the people affectionately called "blue". They are cooked in different ways: mostly fried or baked. But in the frying pan the blue ones have an unpleasant property to absorb fat. The result is a delicious, but very unhealthy (for carcinogens) and a disastrous dish for the figure. Here we will consider several ways how to cook an eggplant in the oven. It can be baked with whole, thin "washers" or as a stew along with other vegetables.

But whatever you prepare from this large elongated glossy berry, it is important to know some general principles of its culinary processing. This close relative of the poisonous nightshade also contains bitterness, and the task of any mistress is to remove it. Therefore, our first step on how to cook eggplant in the oven will be cutting it into pieces and pickling. If you are going to bake a blue whole, it's enough just to cut the fruit along into halves. Well sprinkle the sections with salt and leave for 20 minutes, or even for half an hour.

Some housewives, who do not know how to cook eggplant in the oven, clean fruits like courgettes. It is not right. Peel should be left (the exception is only saute and vegetable stew), but if the blues are overripe, you need to remove the core from them with bones. But in principle, try to use young berries with a shiny glossy skin and a green tail. In order to absorb as little fat as possible during frying, put them at the time of salting under the press. Well, after a good rinse under cold water - it will wash away both salt and bitterness.

Another cunning for those who want to know how to cook in the oven eggplant delicious, is the ability to make the berry stop absorbing oil. For example, if you firmly decide to fry the blue before baking with vegetables or cheese, take a skillet with non-stick coating, and if that is not in the household, roll the eggplant slices in the breadcrumbs from the salted flour.

Begin to prepare a product followed by a simple recipe. So let's bake whole eggplants in the oven. Garlic is cut not very finely. A peel of blue we pierce the tip of the knife in several places and pore holes with pieces of garlic. Let's put eggplants on a lattice or we will draw on a skewer. In the oven, the berry "ripens" to full readiness for half an hour, over the coals and even less. If you bake blue just on a baking sheet, sprinkle them with grated cheese 5-10 minutes before turning off the oven. Wait for a ruddy fragrant "cap".

Another simple recipe for eggplant cooking in the oven is to stuff them with something. Scrolled through a meat grinder, tofu cheese, vegetable puree with garlic and cilantro, mushrooms, garlic and walnuts - all fits for the filling. However, it should be remembered that the blue ones are prepared faster than the same minced meat. Therefore, they need to be prepared separately, but combined already at the final stage of preparation. Let's try to prepare for this dish sauce from sour cream, adzhiki (or a drop of mustard). Fill this mixture with aubergine and bake at 180 ° C for about 20 minutes.