Many people are not familiar with such a vegetable as eggplant. In our gastronomic culture, this vegetable is not particularly well-known. Most prefer to replace eggplant with various analogs, for example, zucchini. However, it is worth noting that eggplants are useful for the body. They are able to give a person potassium, which is necessary for the digestive system and the brain.
For this reason, you should not throw eggplants out of your diet. Recipes with this vegetable are many, let’s tell you about one of them.
Ingredients for fried eggplant:
- Eggplants – kg;
- Onion – pcs.;
- Eggs – 2 pcs;
- Salt – ½ tsp.
Ingredients for gravy for fried eggplants:
- Sour cream – 250 ml;
- Garlic – 5 cloves;
- Parsley – a bundle;
- Cilantro – a bunch;
- Utskho-suneli seasoning – 2 tsp;
- Black pepper – 1/4 tsp;
- Salt – 1/2 tsp.
Preparation of fried eggplant:
Cut eggplant into large pieces. Beat eggs in a separate bowl, pour egg mixture over eggplant pieces and stir.
Dice the onions into small cubes. Fry the onions over medium heat until slightly golden. At this time prepare gravy for eggplant – chop garlic cloves, cilantro and parsley finely.
In a deep bowl to the sour cream put fried onions, garlic, cilantro and parsley, seasoning utskho-suneli, mix.
Add salt and ground black pepper to the sauce, mix the ingredients again.
In the frying pan where onions were fried, renew the vegetable oil, put eggplant slices
.
Fry the eggplant on medium heat until browned, stir constantly and add oil periodically.
Salt the fried eggplant, add the previously received gravy, mix and cook for another minute.
In the end we have juicy fried eggplants. This dish can be served as a main course or as a side dish to meat.
