Eggplant is an important vegetable that should definitely be present on the tables of most people. The fact is that eggplant has many useful components in the composition. For example, this vegetable can improve blood circulation, the digestive system and even the nervous system. It is only necessary to know how to properly prepare eggplant.
For a large number of people, cooking eggplant is a difficult occupation. But, with the right motivation and skill, it turns out to make delicious appetizers from this vegetable.
Ingredients for eggplant appetizers:
- Eggplants – 8 kg;
- Tomatoes – 4 kg;
- Onions – 2 kg;
- Bell peppers and hot peppers – 3 kg;
- Garlic – 150 g;
- Vegetable oil – 1800 liters;
- salt – 2 tbsp;
- sugar – tsp;
- cilantro – 2 bundles.
Preparation of eggplant appetizer:
Remove stalks from eggplants, cut into small cubes, sprinkle with salt, mix. Clean the peppers – hot and sweet from the insides, cut into small pieces. Dice
the onion, fry in a pan with vegetable oil until golden for 25 minutes. Remove excess juice from the eggplant
. Pass tomatoes through a meat grinder, pour the mixture into the onion mixture. Stew without a lid tomatoes and onions for 15-20 minutes on medium heat.
Put in the mixture of tomatoes and onions pepper, cook for 15 minutes, stir. Transfer to the pot with vegetables eggplant pieces, stir gently mass.
Cover the vegetable mass with a lid, cook until the mixture of vegetables boils. Reduce the heat below medium, add sugar and salt. Mix the ingredients and cook under a lid, slightly covering the vegetable mixture.
Shinkuem finely cilantro, after 10 minutes of cooking vegetables, add greens inside. Press the garlic through the press, put it together with the greens in the pot.
We leave the mixture to cook for 10 minutes, and then transfer the eggplant appetizer into jars. Roll up the jars with the mixture, leave for 24 hours until cooling.
