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Eggplant caviar is a good addition to main dishes. It is used as a snack or part of sandwiches. To prepare a delicious dish, use finger-licking recipes.
Eggplant caviar It can be stored for a long time, so it is used for homemade preparations. To prepare it you will need special dishes and fresh vegetables. A meat grinder or blender will help add the required consistency.
The benefits and harms of eggplant caviar
Eggplants are low-calorie foods. They contain vitamins, carotene and microelements (potassium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus). During heat treatment, some of the beneficial properties are lost.
Eggplant caviar brings undoubted benefits to the body:
- improves blood composition;
- due to potassium, it helps to normalize water balance;
- has a positive effect on intestinal function;
- removes waste and toxins;
- Due to iron, it promotes hematopoiesis.
Eggplant caviar is included in the diet menu. Due to the fiber, this product is able to remove excess fluid from the body.
Young eggplants are chosen to prepare caviar.Overripe fruits contain an increased amount of solanine, a substance that causes poisoning. When it enters the body, vomiting, colic, diarrhea, convulsions, and shortness of breath appear.
Cooking principles
To prepare delicious eggplant caviar, you need to adhere to certain principles:
- Before cooking, you need to thoroughly wash all the vegetables and cut them according to the recipe.
- For cooking, cookware made of cast iron or steel is selected. Containers with thick walls prevent the components from burning. When vegetables are heated evenly, caviar acquires a good taste.
- Caviar is prepared from young eggplants, which are cleared of seeds.
- Additional ingredients are added to the dish (tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic).
- Carrots will help make the caviar sweeter.
- The taste of the dish can be adjusted with spices, salt and sugar.
- When canning, lemon juice or vinegar is added to the preparations.
- For the winter, caviar is placed in glass jars, which are pre-heat treated.
- It is recommended to boil lids for jars before screwing them on.
- Hot jars of caviar are turned over and covered with a blanket until they cool completely.
Basic recipe
Finger-licking eggplant caviar is prepared according to the following recipe:
- 2.5 kg of eggplants are peeled and cut into cubes.
- One kilogram of onion is cut into strips and fried in a frying pan.
- 0.5 kg of carrots are grated and added to onions for subsequent frying.
- The vegetables are fried for 10 minutes, then the eggplants are added.
- The vegetable mixture is stewed over low heat for half an hour, then diced tomatoes (1.5 kg) are added to it.
- The vegetable mixture remains on low heat for 50 minutes.To obtain a thicker consistency, you can increase the simmering time.
- For spices, you can add 6 black peppercorns and 2 bay leaves. Using sugar and salt you can make caviar sweeter or saltier.
Caviar in the oven
Using an oven will help to significantly simplify the process of preparing eggplant caviar “You’ll lick your fingers”:
- For cooking you will need 4 eggplants and 3 medium-sized peppers, which need to be wrapped in aluminum foil. The vegetables are placed in the oven for half an hour.
- Then take 5 tomatoes, on which cross-shaped cuts are made. Tomatoes are immersed in boiling water for a few minutes, after which they are removed and peeled. The pulp is grated or a mushy mass is obtained using a blender.
- Peppers and eggplants are removed from the oven and cooled. Peppers are peeled and cut into small pieces.
- Eggplants are cleaned in the same way. Young vegetables can be cut immediately. More mature eggplants are placed under a press to get rid of the bitter juice. After this, the vegetables are also chopped.
- 2 onions need to be peeled and finely chopped. The resulting mass is fried in a frying pan for 2 minutes.
- Add pepper to the onion, then fry for 2 minutes.
- You can add eggplant to the vegetable mixture. The dish should be simmered for no more than 4 minutes.
- Then tomatoes are added to the caviar, mixed and left to simmer over low heat for an hour.
- During this time, you need to finely chop the garlic, which is added to the caviar along with pepper and salt.
- Tomatoes may give the dish a sour taste. It can be neutralized with sugar.
- Prepared caviar is filled into jars or served as an appetizer on the table.
Recipe with pepper
Finger-licking eggplant caviar for the winter can be prepared with the addition of pepper:
- One and a half kilograms of eggplants must be thoroughly washed, peeled and cut into small pieces. Sliced vegetables are placed in a deep bowl, covered with salt and left for 30 minutes.
- During this time, juice will be released, which gives the eggplants bitterness. The liquid is poured from the container, and the eggplants themselves are thoroughly washed.
- Carrots (0.3 kg is enough) are peeled and then cut into strips. Then you need to finely chop the onion.
- Fry the carrots in a frying pan for a few minutes until they become soft.
- Then you need to cut two peppers into small pieces, after removing the seeds.
- Four tomatoes are placed in boiling water, after which the skins are removed. The pulp must be grated or chopped in a blender.
- Add onions to the carrots in the pan, fry and add chopped peppers. The mixture should be simmered over low heat until the vegetables become soft.
- The next step is to add the sliced eggplant. The caviar is left to simmer for 15 minutes.
- Then tomatoes are added to the dish. The mixture is stirred and simmered over low heat for 15 minutes.
- Garlic (2 cloves), salt and pepper will help improve the taste of caviar.
- The prepared vegetables are turned through a meat grinder or chopped in a blender.
Caviar with mushrooms
Eggplant caviar for the winter “You will lick your fingers” is prepared with the addition of mushrooms:
- Three large eggplants are cut lengthwise into two parts. One sweet pepper is cut into four parts and the seeds are removed.
- Eggplants and peppers are placed on a baking sheet, which is pre-greased with sunflower oil. You can put 5 garlic cloves on top.
- In this form, vegetables are baked for 25 minutes.
- Onions and carrots are chopped separately and fried in a frying pan.
- Five tomatoes are dipped in boiling water, then the skins are removed.The tomato pulp is cut into pieces and added to the carrots and onions.
- Mushrooms, which are pre-cut into cubes, are fried separately. For caviar, you can use 10 champignons.
- Vegetables that need time to cool come out of the oven.
- The contents of the frying pan where the carrots, onions and mushrooms were fried are transferred to a separate pan. The vegetable mixture must be simmered for 5 minutes.
- Peppers and eggplants are peeled and the pulp is cut into cubes. They are then added to the pan with the main vegetables.
- The caviar is left for 20 minutes over low heat.
- At the ready stage, add spices, sugar and herbs to taste.
Conclusion
In the process of preparing eggplant caviar, the quality of the vegetables used is taken into account. The most delicious preparations are obtained using young eggplants. To speed up the process, you can place the eggplants in the oven.
Carrots, peppers, and mushrooms help give the caviar a special taste. If necessary, you can add spices or herbs to the dish.
