If you are a lover of spicy and savory snacks? Then this recipe for eggplant "Ogonyok" you will definitely like it, especially since it is not difficult to cook them at all.
Recipe content:
- About eggplant
- About the snack "Ogonyok"
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
About eggplant
Scientists claim that eggplants are berries. However, we are used to using them exactly as vegetables, preparing all kinds of salads, soups, stews, pies, casseroles, caviar from them. Oriental residents consider these fruits "vegetables of longevity", since eggplants have many different nutrients. By the way, in European countries, they appeared exclusively for medicinal purposes. They help with poisoning, toothache, skin diseases, normalize blood pressure, improve blood. And only in the 18th century, Europeans began to use eggplant in cooking. After which they imperceptibly became one of the most any summer vegetables.
About the snack "Ogonyok"
Canned eggplants prepared in this way are quite popular at any festive feast, they are especially relevant in the winter New Year's time. The seam is called "Spark" precisely because it must be very sharp. This pungency is imparted by a hot bitter pepper, which, due to its quantity, can adjust the "temperature" of the snack, making its taste sharper or softer.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 66 kcal.
- Servings - 2 cans of 580 g
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 4 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 5 pcs.
- Red bell pepper - 2 pcs.
- Hot hot pepper - to taste
- Garlic to taste
- Vinegar - 50 ml
- Salt to taste
- Refined vegetable oil - for frying
Cooking eggplant "Ogonyok"
1. Wash the eggplants, dry and cut into slices. After that, if you are using old fruits, then soak the circles for 15-20 minutes in a saline solution so that they cease to taste bitter. Use 1 tablespoon to prepare the saline solution. salt per 1 liter of water.
2. Then rinse the eggplants again and dry well. Heat a frying pan with vegetable oil and quickly fry them in boiling oil on both sides, about 3-4 minutes on each. Fried eggplants, like sponges, absorb a lot of oil, which makes them high in calories. To avoid this, you can bake eggplant slices in the oven.
3. While the eggplant is roasting, prepare the dressing. To do this, peel sweet and hot peppers from seeds, garlic from husks, and just wash the tomatoes.
4. All products must be chopped. You can do this with a food processor with a cutting knife attachment, as I did, or use a meat grinder.
5. Pour vinegar into the chopped vegetable mass, put a little salt and mix well.
6. Place fried eggplants in sterilized jars, transferring them with cooked hot seasoning.
7. Close the jars with sterilized lids and store them in a convenient place for you, for example, in a cellar. By the way, such an appetizer can be prepared not only for the winter, but also in the summer for a family dinner. But only in this case, it will need to be well cooled, since such eggplants are delicious when cold.
See also a video recipe on how to cook eggplant light (conservation).
