Eggplant is one of the oldest vegetable species known to man. Eggplant was known about in ancient India. Even simple recipes for cooking eggplant have been preserved. However, for a modern person, these recipes will seem too bland and not even tasty.
Now cooking can offer a lot of actual ways of cooking eggplant. Often it is not necessary to add meat to the vegetable, so that it turns out delicious. Let’s prepare fried eggplants in sauce.
Ingredients for fried eggplants in sauce:
- Eggplants – 900 g;
- Onion – 1 pc;
- Sour cream – 3 tablespoons;
- Lemon juice – 2 tbsp;
- Hmeli-suneli – ½ tsp;
- Garlic – 2 cloves;
- Dill – a bunch;
- Parsley – a bunch;
- Salt – ½ tsp.
Preparation of fried eggplants in sauce:
Peel the eggplants from the skin and cut into large cubes, send in a colander. Pour lemon juice into the eggplants, salt and leave to marinate for 15 minutes.
At this time, cut quarter rings of onion, fry until soft in a frying pan with vegetable oil. Remove the marinated eggplants from moisture with a paper towel
. Add the eggplants to the frying pan to the slightly browned onions, fry the vegetables together for 10 minutes.
Sprinkle eggplant with ground black pepper and hmeli-suneli, mix. Cook the eggplant for an additional couple of minutes, pour sour cream into the skillet, mix the ingredients.
Fry the eggplant in the sour cream for a couple minutes. At this time, finely chop dill and parsley, pass garlic cloves through the press.
Add the greens and garlic to the eggplants in the frying pan, stir again.
The resulting dish is perfectly combined with fried meat.
Also eggplants in sour cream sauce can be used as a separate dish.
