Pressed eggplant with garlic for the winter is an original dish that both children and adults will enjoy. If cooked correctly, the product turns out spicy and pleasant to the taste. Moreover, not every housewife knows how to cook blue ones. Therefore, in order to impress household members and guests with culinary delights, a woman should learn how to cook eggplants.
Pressed eggplants with garlic - a delicious treat on your table
But you need to know some cooking tricks to make the dish tasty. The most important rule is that the vegetable requires generous salting so that the bitterness disappears.
Required Ingredients
To create a delicious treat, the housewife needs to stock up on the following products:
- Eggplant. They must be fresh, without signs of rotting.
- Salt. Only stone will do.
- Water. Use spring or bottled water.
- Garlic. Take large heads.
The better the ingredients, the tastier the dish will be.
Preparatory stage
First, vegetables and herbs are prepared. They are washed and placed on a clean towel to drain. The stem of the eggplant is cut off and pierced with a fork in 5-6 places..
Then the storage containers are prepared, they are thoroughly washed, dried, and then sterilized in the oven.
Step-by-step cooking process
There are several recipes for cooking vegetables. The hot dish is placed in jars and covered with tin lids.
Salty
Prepare salted blue vegetables quickly according to this algorithm:
- Boil eggplants in salted water (150 grams per 1 liter) until tender.
- Remove from the pan with a slotted spoon and place in a colander for an hour.
- The fruits are cut in half lengthwise and stuffed with chopped garlic.
- The vegetables are placed tightly in an enamel pan, covered with a flat plate, and a weight is placed. This could be a three-liter jar filled with water.
After 4-5 days the dish is ready to eat.
Pickled blue ones
Those who love snacks with vinegar will love pickled blueberries according to this recipe:
- Eggplants are kept in salted water (per 1 liter - 1.5 tablespoons) for 2-3 hours.
- Then they are fried in vegetable oil until half cooked.
- Remove the stem and seeds from the hot pepper.These actions are performed with rubber gloves so as not to burn the skin of your palms.
- Hot peppers and garlic are passed through a meat grinder.
- In a container, bring water with granulated sugar and salt to a boil. Pour in table vinegar and boil for another 5 minutes.
- Place the eggplants in an enamel pan, topping each layer with a garlic-pepper mixture.
- The mass is poured with hot brine and pressed down with pressure.
A day later the treat is ready.
Recipe with greens
The preparation with herbs is prepared in the same way. Only the eggplants are topped not with garlic and pepper, but with any herb.
How to store and for how long?
The snack is stored in the refrigerator or basement for no more than a year. It cannot be re-frozen.
