Eggplant - an amazing plant: on the one hand, its benefits are undoubted, on the other, some qualities scare the consumer.
The most delicious dishes are obtained in which contrasting notes are combined: sweet and salty, bitter and sweet, sweet and sour. Eggplants in sweet and sour sauce are especially delicious.
Eggplants in sweet and sour sauce
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 3 kg;
- sand sugar domestic white - 200 g;
- stone without additives salt, purified - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- ripe dense tomatoes red or pink - 2 kg;
- unrefined oil from sunflower odorless - 150 ml;
- vinegar 9% apple or white - 70 ml;
- spices - to taste;
- dill, parsley, coriander, basil - 1 small bunch;
- garlic - 2 slices.
Preparation
Eggplants are medium-sized, it's better to find white ones - their taste is much more delicate, but the violet ones are also delicious. We cut the fruit in circles, we choose the thickness depending on the diameter of the fruit: thicker cuts are thinner, thin can be shredded not very thinly. Now you need to soak the slices in slightly salted cold or lukewarm water. Put them in a suitable container, add water and salt, stir.
We have time while we soak the eggplant slices to cook the sauce. Tomatoes should be washed and turned with mashed potatoes using a meat grinder or blender, in the cauldron boil the resulting thick mass, adding salt, sugar and butter to it. When the sauce boils, we fix 10 minutes, pour in the vinegar, drain the water from the eggplants, rinse them and put them in the cauldron. Stew aubergines in sweet and sour sauce for about half an hour, after which add garlic, chopped greens and spices.
To get sharp eggplants in sweet and sour sauce, add crushed chili pepper (seeds, of course, remove) and increase the amount of garlic to taste.
If you want to add saturation to the taste of the dish and at the same time make the texture lighter, prepare eggplant with vegetables in sweet and sour sauce. Add the sweet pepper and zucchini, cut them into small strips. Extinguish everything together and get an unusually tasty dish.
It is possible to roll eggplants in sweet and sour sauce for this winter for this recipe. In advance, and sterilize the jars, lay out the eggplant circles in them, pour the sauce and close.
Fried Eggplant
Even more delicious are eggplants fried in sweet and sour sauce. We prepare the dish completely differently.
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 3 kg;
- salt stone without additives - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- onion yellow oblong onion - 0,7 kg;
- sugar white - 200 g;
- Sunflower unrefined oil odorless - 150 ml;
- garlic - 4 slices;
- carrots sweet medium size - 5 pcs .;
- tomatoes juicy pink - 2 kg;
- apple vinegar dining room 9% - 50 ml.
Preparation
Eggplant my and cut the plates along the fetus, the thickness of the plate about 3 mm. Soak them and start to prepare the sauce. We clean carrots and onions, chop the onion finely, grate carrot on a small grater, let tomatoes pass through the meat grinder. Eggplant should be expressed and fried in well-warmed oil until cooked - they should lightly brown. In the remaining oil fry onions and carrots, add tomato mass, salt, sugar, garlic. We all together for about 10 minutes, pour in the vinegar, let's puff for another minute. On the dish, lay layers of eggplant, sauce, again eggplant, again sauce. Leave to soak for half an hour. As you can see, it's easy to make eggplants in sweet and sour sauce.
You can cook eggplants with zucchini in sweet and sour sauce, do not change the recipe. Just fry separately zucchini and alternate layers of eggplant, sauce and zucchini. It turns out an unusual dish, combining the delicate texture of fried vegetables and the sharpness of sweet and sour sauce.