I love eggplant, in any form and form. I am happy to cook new recipes for dishes with this vegetable. So today I decided to cook just such an eggplant appetizer, to taste it somehow reminded me of mushrooms. It is very important and desirable to use fragrant for dressing. vegetable oil, refined will not give such a taste and aroma.
To prepare eggplant with the taste of mushrooms, we need:
2 kg eggplant.
For brine per 1 liter of water:
1 liter of water:
2 onions;
50 g of salt;
0.5 st. l. Sahara;
black peppercorns;
Carnation;
Bay leaf;
garlic - to taste;
Boil them in salted water until tender. You can bake in the oven or in the microwave, whichever you prefer. I baked in the microwave for 15 minutes at the highest power (900 watts).
Mix all the ingredients for the brine, except the garlic, and bring to a boil. After removing the onion and bay leaf, cool the brine to room temperature.
Spread the prepared eggplant in layers, smear each layer of eggplant with squeezed garlic. Thus lay out all the eggplant.
Pour them with warm brine and leave for a day in a warm place.
After a day, send the eggplants to the refrigerator and use as needed. I take out the eggplants and cut them into cubes. I cut the onion into half rings and add it to the eggplants, season all the ingredients with fragrant vegetable oil. Eggplant is very similar in taste to mushrooms. Wonderful snack!
Bon Appetit!
Fried eggplant like mushrooms is a delicious and simple salad. It can be served as an appetizer for the main course, or it can be rolled up in jars for the winter. The recipe is designed for lovers of unusual snacks. After all, all its charm is that it tastes like fried eggplants like mushrooms, marinated with vinegar, oil and onions. They are just as crispy and flavorful. Naturally, the taste will not be identical and a slight difference is felt, but this is more a plus than a minus. Just the taste difference will give the dish a certain mystery, and let the guests festive table Guess what this salad is from.
Everyone can try their hand at cooking, even a beginner can do it. Moreover, the recipe with a photo is painted step by step, it will not be difficult to figure it out.
Active cooking time: 40 minutes.
Total cooking time: 6-12 hours.
Ingredients:
1. In order for the “eggplant like mushrooms” salad to turn out tasty and juicy, you need to choose good eggplant. They should be small, dark purple, smooth and shiny. It is desirable that there are no dents on the vegetables, eggplants need elastic and juicy (and not like cotton wool).
Wash and peel the eggplant, cut off the edges. Cut into circles about one and a half centimeters thick each.
2. Pour the circles into a deep bowl and sprinkle with a little salt. Do not overdo it with salt, as vegetables can turn out tough and dry. Stir and leave in this form for a while so that they start up the juice. When you see liquid in the bowl, you can proceed to the next step. Usually 15-20 minutes is enough. Bitterness, which is not needed in a salad, will go away with the juice.
3. In the meantime, prepare the rest of the ingredients for the marinade. Peel the onion, cut into 4 pieces and thinly slice. We chop the washed greens with a knife. Peel and chop the garlic step by step photo.
4. We return to the eggplants, which have already let the juice out. Rinse the cut circles under running water. Dab with paper towels to remove excess liquid and lightly fry in a pan with a little vegetable oil. Eggplant circles on both sides should be covered with a golden crust.
5. In a separate saucepan, mix sugar and salt in water, add peppercorns and bay leaf. If you want, you can use other spices to taste. For extra spiciness, you can add a couple of rings of hot red pepper or mustard seeds. Now this mixture must be sent to the fire, and when the water comes to a boil, add vinegar.
6. After a couple of minutes, pour the fried eggplants with hot marinade. Give them time to marinate. We are waiting for complete cooling, after which we put the snack in the refrigerator. In order for the vegetables to be thoroughly soaked in the marinade, it is better to leave them in the refrigerator overnight. But you can take a sample after a couple of hours.
If you want to roll eggplants like mushrooms for the winter, you need to put hot fried circles in hot sterilized jars, pour boiling marinade with vinegar and cork with lids. Then you should turn the rolled up jars with the lids down, wrap them up and leave them to cool completely in a draft-free place.
7. After a couple of hours, you can already start tasting by straining the eggplant with onions, garlic and herbs from the marinade.
So our fried eggplants are ready like mushrooms: the recipe is very simple, and the dish is very tasty! You can serve a salad with absolutely any side dish, but it will be tastiest with boiled or fried potatoes. Bon Appetit! And next time, be sure to try cooking eggplant with garlic and dill according to this recipe.
Summer is a time that not only pleases with an abundance of sun, vegetables and fruits, but also brings new chores. Each housewife tries to stock up on conservation, which will remind you of warm days in a snowy winter. Eggplants resembling mushrooms are one of the preparations that are especially loved by many families. There are many recipes that allow you to easily stock up on delicious preservation.
A feature of purple vegetables is an unpleasant bitterness, which you will have to get rid of even before conservation. There are two ways to deal with the taste, and only after that proceed with harvesting eggplants that taste like mushrooms.
Regardless of which method was used to harvest the taste of mushrooms, it is imperative to rinse the fruits from salt. If this is not done, there is a risk of spoiling the vegetables.
Cooking mushroom-flavored eggplant has a few tricks that will help improve the taste of the workpiece. The first rule is to use young fruits with a thin, delicate skin for preservation. In old ones, it is quite tough, which will certainly affect the taste. Another difference is that young fruits have less bitterness, which will reduce the preparation time.
Another rule is to use one variety of eggplant for harvesting. Blue in palatability slightly different, but the cooking time is different. Some pieces in the jar may be hard, others too soft. For conservation fast food it is recommended to take early varieties - they have an excellent taste and a delicate structure resembling mushrooms.
On the table, dishes with spicy eggplant scatter first. There are several recipes for delicious snacks. Cooking "mushrooms" from eggplant will take only a few minutes:
The appetizer is ready, the dish is served to the table both hot and pre-chilled.
Learning the best eggplant mushroom recipes takes a lot of time, because there are many ways to prepare snacks. One more tasty dish, very popular at the time of fruiting purple vegetables:
Already on a plate, sprinkle eggplants resembling mushrooms, chopped herbs and garlic passed through a press.
The recipe for blue ones in a spicy marinade for the winter is especially popular with housewives, the preparation of which will take no more than half an hour. It will not cause any particular difficulties even for novice housewives - pickling eggplants, which are no different from mushrooms, is quite simple:
Salted eggplant, which is easy to confuse with mushrooms, is another harvesting option:
Eggplant marinated for the winter "for mushrooms" is one of delicious snacks, so it’s worth preparing an appetizing treat that will become a favorite among guests and family. Once you try this dish, you will not be able to refuse it.
Now those fertile days have begun, when the harvest itself falls into the bins and asks for a table.
Including delicious eggplants, which I propose to cook in such a way that their taste will resemble mushrooms.
Over the past few years, the dish has become an invariable hit of the season, and recipes are literally in great demand. We will not lag behind and do it - we will please the family, and we will not forget ourselves.
Little blue ones, many are used to calling them that way, by themselves they taste like the gifts of the forest. But if they are properly marinated or thermally processed, the similarity only intensifies.
Cooking does not require any special hassle, no skills, complex ingredients. Unless you need to know a couple of secrets in order not to make mistakes, but recipes.
Tips for beginner housewives:
Fried eggplants with sour cream are ideal hot, they will not spoil the pleasure even when cold. A cube of Maggi broth will add mushroom aroma and flavor.
You will need:
Step by step preparation:
Eggs will add an incredible flavor to the dish, maybe this is the secret of the popularity of the dish.
Cooking:
There are several options to make the blue ones look like mushrooms. In the form of a light snack, quick, with a Korean flavor that many people love. But in any case, the taste of eggplant will resemble the gifts of the forest.
Recipe number 1. Moderately spicy snack, with a noticeable taste of mushrooms.
Take:
Cooking:
Try to cook - you will like these mushrooms. Unlike the first recipe, there are more spices here, which will improve the taste of pickled blue ones.
Take:
The marinade is prepared from 2 tablespoons of sugar, 2.5 tablespoons of salt and 6 large spoons of 9% vinegar.
Cooking:
Cut the blue ones into slices and pour boiling water (do not add water and do not add vinegar - pay attention). Boil after re-boiling for 3 minutes and fold in a colander.
Put the pieces in a jar, alternating with garlic and chopped onion. Put all the spices in there. Love spicy dishes - add bitter pepper.
Boil the marinade: add salt and sugar to the water and pour in the vinegar.
Pour in the marinade. After it cools down, hold the workpiece for 6 hours in the cold. When serving, add a little vegetable oil if desired.
The Korean version is distinguished by a larger number of vegetables and an abundance of spices.
You will need:
How to cook:
Cut the eggplant lengthwise into four parts, and boil them by salting the water (after boiling, cook for 10 minutes).
When the water drains and the little blue ones cool down a bit, cut them into smaller slices.
Cut peppers and carrots into strips, onions into half rings. Connect with the blue ones. Add finely chopped garlic.
Make a marinade: combine salt and sugar in a separate bowl. Dilute a little with water, pour in oil and vinegar. Mix well and pour over the vegetables.
My recipes for eggplant like mushrooms will not be enough - watch the video I selected, another one is prepared there for the winter. May your meals always be successful!