Eggplant is an amazing vegetable that amazes with its color palette and taste variety. There are not only purple eggplants, but also yellow, green and red types of this vegetable.
Eggplants are grown almost all over Europe
.
Italians even have an eggplant holiday. The main event for the celebration is the eggplant Olympics. This event is created for people to learn from chefs
how to make
dishes from this vegetable.
We will show you how to make meat filled tacos from eggplant
.
Ingredients for eggplant tacos:
- Eggplant or Zucchini (to taste) – 2 pcs;
- Salt – 2 tsp;
- Cheese – 100 g;
- Green onions – bundle;
- Eggs – 2 pcs;
- Flour – 4 tbsp;
- Baking powder – ½ tsp;
- Onion – pcs;
- Stuffing – 500 g;
- Garlic – 3 cloves;
- Ground black pepper – a pinch;
- Potatoes – 4 pcs;
- Milk – 50 ml;
- Butter – 50 g.
Preparation of eggplant tacos:
Shred eggplant on a coarse grater, remove the stalks beforehand. Similarly grate cheese. Eggplant mass salt, squeeze from excess liquid.
You can replace eggplant with zucchini, some believe that this will be tastier.
Chop green onions, put them in a bowl with eggplant and cheese. Break eggs into eggplant mass, pour flour and baking powder.
Knead the dough in a bowl. In a frying pan with vegetable oil pour a couple of tablespoons of dough, level the surface, form a flatbread.
Fry the flatbread on medium heat on both sides for 2-3 minutes. Follow the same procedure with the rest of the dough.
Dice the onion into small cubes. In a skillet fry minced meat for 5-6 minutes, stir. Press with a knife and chop garlic cloves, lay them out to the naked mince along with the onion.
Fry the filling for tortillas for a couple of minutes, add ground black pepper. Cut the peeled potatoes into large cubes, boil them until ready.
Mix the potatoes with milk and butter, mashed potato them. Put fried minced meat into the mashed potatoes, mix.
Spread a couple of spoonfuls of stuffing on half of the tortilla, cover with the other half.
You get eggplant tacos from available ingredients. The dish looks unusual and is considered a good appetizer for the table.
