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The range of canned vegetables on store shelves is constantly expanding. You can buy almost everything - from pickled tomatoes to sun-dried ones. There are also canned eggplants on sale, but cooked at home, they will, of course, be much tastier. Very good eggplant caviar in pieces. You can serve it right away or prepare it for the winter.
There are many options for such caviar. Add garlic or herbs, and even sour apples to the vegetables. It all depends on the taste of the hostess. This caviar can be prepared in different ways. Roasting or baking vegetables greatly changes the taste of a dish.
Eggplant pieces with sweet pepper
For this option you will need:
- eggplants – 10 pieces;
- carrots – 2 pcs;
- sweet peppers, onions, tomatoes – 4 pcs each;
- refined vegetable oil – 12 tablespoons;
- garlic – 2 cloves;
- We will add salt and pepper to taste.
Wash all vegetables thoroughly. Peel the blue ones, cut them into cubes of about 1 cm, add salt and leave for half an hour.
Wash the eggplants under running water and fry in vegetable oil. Cut onions and carrots into small cubes. They need to be fried separately until soft.Place the onions and carrots in a large, thick-walled bowl, add sweet peppers, cut into small squares, and simmer all together for 5-6 minutes over low heat. Cut the tomatoes into cubes and add to the vegetables, simmer for another 5-10 minutes. Now it’s the turn of the eggplant and garlic, which can be grated or passed through a press. Add salt and pepper to taste and continue simmering for about 10 minutes over low heat.
If you eat caviar right away, you need to cool it and then serve it. For winter preparations, the finished caviar is immediately transferred to sterilized jars and rolled up.
Finished jars should be well wrapped for at least a day.
If the dish is being prepared for serving, the amount of food can be halved.
Baked eggplant caviar
To prepare this dish, the blue ones are baked, and all other vegetables remain raw, which makes it possible to preserve all the vitamins in them as much as possible. This dish has only one drawback - it does not last long.
Products you will need:
- a kilogram of medium-sized eggplants;
- one tomato weighing approximately 100 g;
- medium sized onion;
- a clove of garlic and a bunch of herbs;
- salt, ground red or black pepper;
- olive or vegetable oil.
For this recipe, the eggplants need to be baked in the oven. To do this, place a baking sheet with blueberries in a hot oven (temperature about 200 degrees) for 40 minutes.
Peel slightly cooled vegetables and cut into small pieces. All other vegetables are not cooked.They are cut into small pieces, mixed with eggplants, chopped herbs, garlic, salt, pepper if necessary and seasoned with vegetable oil.
Baked eggplant slices with apples
The combination of raw and baked vegetables gives this dish a special taste. Vitamins are almost completely preserved with this processing method. A small amount of vegetable oil and vegetables with low calorie content allow those who want to lose weight to consume this caviar.
Ingredients for cooking:
- medium-sized eggplants – 1 kilogram;
- medium-sized onions – 2 pcs;
- 2 medium sized apples are better than unsweetened varieties;
- vegetable oil – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- 0.5 tbsp. spoons of 9% vinegar, you can take apple cider vinegar;
- sugar - tablespoon;
- salt and pepper to taste.
We bake the little blue ones as in the previous recipe. Chop the peeled eggplants and fry in vegetable oil for 5-7 minutes. Fry the same amount and one peeled and finely chopped onion. The second onion needs to be grated, just like an apple. Mix raw and fried vegetables, season with salt, pepper, oil and vinegar.
Fried eggplant pieces for the winter
This caviar is served hot. Heat treatment of vegetables allows you to prepare them for the winter. Pieces of colorful vegetables make this dish a table decoration.
Products for caviar:
- 2 small eggplants, approximately 400 g;
- sweet peppers and onions 400 g each, respectively;
- one medium sized carrot;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- tomato paste – 2 tbsp. spoons;
- refined vegetable oil – 4 tbsp. spoons;
- 2 bay leaves and a bunch of greens, choose the one you love;
- salt and pepper to taste.
Wash the onion and carrots, peel and cut into small cubes. We also cut sweet peppers and eggplants, which need to be sprinkled with salt and left for half an hour.
Fry onions and carrots in vegetable oil until half cooked, add sweet peppers, eggplants and tomato paste. Simmer the vegetables for another 15-20 minutes. Add bay leaves, chopped herbs, pepper, salt and pressed garlic to the vegetables and simmer for 5 minutes if you are going to eat the caviar right away and 20 minutes for storing it for the winter. To prevent the caviar from becoming too thick, you can add a little water.
Caviar is served on the table immediately after preparation, and for the winter it is immediately put into jars and rolled up. Banks should be wrapped for a day.
For lovers of spicy dishes, we can offer a recipe for oriental cuisine. This kind of caviar is prepared in Uzbekistan, in every home and in large quantities. Especially healthy vegetables ripen in abundance in the hot southern sun. That's why there are so many peppers, onions and tomatoes in this dish.
Oriental style eggplant caviar
Products and proportions.
For 600 g of eggplant you will need:
- 0.5 kg of tomatoes and sweet peppers;
- unsweetened onions – 450 g;
- 1 hot pepper, more is possible;
- 3 large cloves of garlic, you can take more;
- a bunch of finely chopped greens to your liking;
- 110 ml refined lean oil.
We start preparing the dish by washing and peeling the vegetables well. In the original recipe, the eggplants should be peeled in vertical strips, leaving some of the skin. If a large amount of caviar is prepared, Uzbek housewives do not clean them at all. But for a dish with a delicate consistency, it is still better to remove the skin completely.
Cut the onion into half rings, and all other vegetables into cubes. Only the garlic and hot pepper need to be cut smaller.
This dish is prepared in the same thick-walled cauldron in which pilaf is usually prepared. In Uzbekistan they do this on the street and at the stake. Most Russians don’t have access to such exotic things, so we’ll make do with a regular gas stove.
Place a cauldron on the fire, heat up all the oil and throw in the onions. Fry until the onion turns golden. Now it’s the turn of the sweet pepper, which we add to the onion. You need to fry everything for about 10 minutes, stirring several times. Place eggplants in a cauldron with vegetables.
After 5 minutes, add the tomatoes, salt well and fry the vegetables until soft. At the very end of cooking, season the caviar with garlic, hot pepper and herbs.
Immediately after it is ready, and this happens about an hour after it starts, we place the caviar in dry, sterilized jars. Roll up and wrap warmly for 24 hours. This bright and spicy dish has absorbed all the flavors of the East. It will be an exotic decoration for everyday and holiday tables.
Conclusion
Various canned vegetables will help housewives not only diversify the menu, but also seriously save money. They are prepared in accordance with the nutritional standards adopted in the family from those vegetables that everyone loves. Store-bought products cannot compete with them. What is prepared with your own hands and with love will undoubtedly taste better and benefit the health of your family and friends.
