Cold vegetable snacks

Almost everyone loves summer. Someone for warm days and plenty of sun, someone for rest on the sea or for trips to nature, cottage, love for the starry sky in June, for the opportunity to wear light beautiful clothes and eat delicious berries, fruits and vegetables. Everyone has different reasons, and they are all beautiful!

One of the things I love about summer is that I love it. eggplant season. And that time has come! Now, until late autumn, fresh blue berries will be available on the shelves (yes, in fact, this vegetable is not a vegetable at all).





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How delicious to cook eggplant Variations eggplant There is so much that even a real gourmet will find one that he will be ready to eat almost every day. Eggplant is in high esteem in the oriental cuisine, it is given credit by European chefs.

The editorial board. "Site" He asks you to find out a simple way, how tasty and quick to cook "blue" for dinner. It is done almost in the blink of an eye (by the way, it is eaten just as quickly).





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The ingredients

• eggplant (large)
• 2 tomatoes
• 300g mozzarella (if desired)
• 5 tbsp sunflower oil
• salt, pepper, basil to taste

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Preparation

1. Wash the eggplant. Peeled from the skin of eggplant cut in circles about a centimeter thick.
   
   
   
   
2. Sprinkle and pepper eggplant, and then roast in a pan with sunflower oil. Roast on both sides until the formation of a golden crust.
   
   
   
   
3. Wash and chop the tomatoes. You can also take a mozzarella cut in small slices. The thickness of cheese and tomatoes should be about a centimeter.
   
   
   
   
4. Then there are two options! You can fold a turret of eggplant, a slice of cheese, and a circle of tomatoes on top. A quick and easy cold snack according to an old Bulgarian recipe.
   
   
   
   And you can make "towers of eggplant" with the help of an oven. In the form for baking, oiled, we build turrets: a circle of eggplant, a circle of tomatoes and a slice of cheese.
   
   Each portion is decorated with sprigs of basil and sprinkled with balsamic vinegar. Send all this to the oven and bake at a temperature of 200 degrees for 15-20 minutes.
   
   
   
   
   
   

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To understand the cooking process better, watch this video.

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Many housewives in our time consider eggplant too capricious: they turn black, then bitter. Although these troubles are easy to avoid. You should read these useful tips, and it is better to save them, because they will be useful to you when creating tasty and delicious ones. eggplant.

Useful advice

1. Eggplants contain quite a lot of solanine - this substance is bitter. Some people like a slightly bitter taste. But for those who do not like this taste, I suggest putting sliced eggplant in salted water for 20 minutes. Most of the solanine will come out and the bitterness will disappear.
   
   
   
   
   
   

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So that when frying eggplants do not absorb a lot of fat, first scald them with boiling water.



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Eggplant absorbs butter like a sponge. Therefore, it is best to cook them in the oven, grill or fry in pans with non-stick coating and use a minimum of oil. Often eggplant is cut in circles and fried. To put a small barrier between butter and eggplant, you can roll them in salted flour.





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And here is another life hack for those who like to cook with butter or ghee. First, it is better to pour a little sunflower oil, and then put cream: then it melts evenly and does not burn.



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The editorial board of methods of cooking eggplants is not counted! Therefore, I suggest you familiarize yourself with another excellent recipe - fried eggplant with garlic: they will surprise you with their moderately sharp taste with bright lemon notes.



I have never seen a simpler recipe than this one! My family always asks me to cook more. By the way, this recipe is also useful for those who follow the figure and want to look slim and beautiful.

Share this recipe with your friends. summertime! I'm sure they'll be thrilled.