Many eggplants are used to make canned vegetables. Since they have a unique taste, they make unique savory dishes. Fried eggplants, closed for the winter with garlic, is one of the most popular dishes. It is not difficult to make it, but it will take some time to soak the fruits in saline, roast eggplant slices, chop garlic and some other vegetables. Culinary work will be rewarded with dignity: eggplants fried with garlic are truly tasty snacks, which hardly anyone can refuse.
Cooking Features
Close for the winter fried with garlic eggplant is not difficult if you know the details of this process.
- Eggplants contain solanine. In young fruits it is less, in mature - more. This substance is poisonous, although its quantity contained in the “blue ones” is not enough to cause significant damage to human health. The same substance gives bitterness to eggplants. Salt helps to get rid of solanine. Sliced into “blue” pieces is soaked in a saline solution prepared from 20 g of salt and 1 liter of water, or simply degreased and wait for 20-30 minutes. After that, it remains to wash and dry the vegetables.
- Appetizer from young eggplants is more palatable than mature ones. Young fruits can not clear. It is advisable to peel the ripe vegetables using a vegetable peeler.
- Refined vegetable oil is used for roasting eggplants, as carcinogens are formed in the unrefined under the influence of high temperature.
- The quality of butter should be given special attention, as rancid butter will make the snack not only harmful, but also unpleasant to the taste, foul-smelling.
- Regardless of the technology of preparing snacks from fried eggplants and garlic for the winter, cans under it must be sterilized. The lids are also sterilized by boiling.
- When boiling, garlic loses its burning properties, so eggplant snacks with garlic are usually not stewed, but sterilized right in jars. If you use a recipe that involves stewing, it is advisable to add garlic last. The same applies to fresh greens.
Canned eggplant and garlic canned food is often supplemented with tomatoes, peppers, greens, and a spicy marinade. Each snack option is unique in its own way. If you like savory dishes, you should prepare garlic-fried eggplants for the winter using several recipes.
A simple recipe for fried eggplants with garlic
Composition (1 l):
- eggplants - 1, 2 kg;
- sugar - 20 g;
- salt - 5 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 20 ml;
- garlic - 10 cloves;
- cilantro or parsley - 50 g;
- hot peppers - 1 pc .;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave;
- water - how much will go into the banks.
Method of preparation:
- Cut the eggplants in half lengthwise, then continue cutting the pieces lengthwise into halves until you have 8 long sticks, the edges of which are arranged in the shape of a triangle.
- Place pieces of eggplants in saline, leave in it for 20-30 minutes.
- Pepper seeds, pass through a meat grinder.
- Chop garlic in the same way, combine with pepper.
- Finely chop the washed and dried greens, mix with garlic and pepper.
- Sterilize the jars.
- Spread half the garlic-pepper mass into the jars, add sugar and salt. Pour vinegar over the cans.
- Fry eggplants in boiling oil, then spread them on the jars.
- Place the remaining mashed garlic, pepper and greens on top.
- Boil water, pour into jars.
- Place the jars in the pot with water or in the oven, sterilize 0, 5 liters capacity for 20 minutes, 1 liter capacity - 40 minutes. Then roll up.
- Put down the covers, cover with a blanket and leave to cool in a steam bath for additional sterilization.
After cooling, the jars can be removed to an unheated pantry or other cool room. Keep such a snack should be at a temperature not higher than 18 degrees, otherwise it will quickly deteriorate.
Fried eggplants with garlic and honey for the winter
The composition (1, 5 l):
- eggplants - 1, 5 kg;
- tomatoes - 0.5 kg;
- hot peppers - 1-2 pcs .;
- garlic - 100 g;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 75 ml;
- salt - 10 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Eggplants cut into circles, salt and leave for 20 minutes. Rinse well with running water, pat dry with a kitchen towel.
- Fry the eggplants on both sides in vegetable oil.
- Pepper seeds, together with tomatoes and garlic, pass through a meat grinder.
- Add salt to the vegetable mixture, pour in honey, table vinegar, melted to a liquid state. Mix everything thoroughly to get a homogeneous mass.
- Fill the prepared jars with fried eggplants, pouring each layer of cooked spicy sauce.
- Cover the cans with boiled metal lids.
- At the bottom of a large pot, lay a towel, put cans of snacks on it. Pour water into the pan so that it reaches the shoulders of the cans.
- Put the pan on a slow fire. Sterilize jars with a snack for 15-30 minutes after boiling water in a saucepan. The sterilization time depends on the volume of the cans: 15 minutes will be enough for half a liter, liter need to be sterilized for half an hour.
- Remove the jars from the pan, hermetically seal them, turn them over and cover with a blanket. Wait until the banks cool down.
It is advisable to keep such a snack in a cool room, but at room temperature it is also worth it.
Fried eggplants with garlic and carrots for the winter
Composition (1 l):
- eggplants - 1 kg;
- tomatoes - 0, 3 kg;
- carrots - 0, 2 kg;
- garlic - 5 cloves;
- hot peppers - 0, 5 pcs .;
- table vinegar (9 percent) - 40 ml;
- sugar - 20 g;
- salt - 5 g;
- vegetable oil - how much will leave.
Method of preparation:
- Cut eggplants into slices, soak in salt solution, wash, dry with a napkin, fry until done.
- Clean the remaining vegetables, scroll through the meat grinder individually.
- Combine carrots, peppers and tomato puree, bring to a boil.
- Add salt, sugar, vinegar and garlic. Bring to the boil again.
- At the bottom of the sterilized jars pour a spoonful of hot pouring.
- Lay out a layer of eggplants, pour the sauce. So, alternating eggplant and sauce, fill the jars.
- Sterilize cans with a snack for 10-20 minutes, roll up.
- Leave to cool upside down under a blanket.
Such a snack can be stored at room temperature, but in a cool room it will not spoil longer.
Eggplant, fried with garlic - a savory snack that can be prepared for the winter according to various recipes. With the preservation will have to tinker, but the result will justify the time and effort spent by the chef.
