How to keep your eggplants fresh until winter? An excellent way to prepare them is to freeze them. How to cook frozen eggplant for pizza, read the step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Eggplant is a versatile vegetable, or rather a berry, which is used to prepare many dishes. For example, eggplant pizza is one of the many options for Italian cuisine. It is no less tasty than pizza with tomatoes, sausage, cheese, herbs … However, eggplant is a seasonal vegetable, and you will not be able to enjoy your favorite food all year round. Indeed, in the cold season, fresh eggplants are difficult to find, and if they are sold, then at a high cost. In addition, you can never be sure of the naturalness of a winter product. Therefore, you need to take care of the preparation of eggplants in advance. Today we make frozen eggplants for pizza for the winter.
You can freeze eggplants in different ways. They differ in the way of cutting: cubes, bars, rings, halves, whole …, as well as preliminary processing. Since fruits can be prepared fresh, fried, baked, boiled … Each type of eggplant freezing in winter will find its application. For pizza, eggplants need to be fried or baked in a round shape or in bars. I preferred to cut them into bars and fry them in a skillet in oil.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 60 kcal.
- Servings - Any Amount
- Cooking time - 30 minutes prep work, 30 minutes to remove the bitterness, 3 hours to freeze
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - any quantity
- Salt - to remove bitterness (if needed)
- Vegetable oil - for frying
Step by step preparation of frozen eggplant for pizza, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the eggplants, dry with a paper towel and cut into strips. Although if you want to see eggplants of a different shape in your pizza, then cut the fruits in a different way.
2. If the eggplant has bitterness, then get rid of it. To do this, put them in a bowl and salt. Stir and leave for half an hour.
3. Rinse the eggplants under running cold water to wash off the droplets of moisture released on the fruits, along with which all the bitterness came out of the vegetable. Then place the eggplants on a paper towel and leave to dry completely.
4. Pour vegetable oil into a frying pan and heat it well. Place the eggplants in a skillet and turn the heat to medium.
5. Fry the eggplants until golden brown, turn them periodically.
6. Put the fried eggplants on a paper towel to get rid of excess fat.
7. Wrap the board with cling film, put the fried eggplants on it and send to the freezer. With the film, frozen vegetables can be easily removed and folded into a convenient bag or sealed plastic container for further storage in the freezer. Freeze eggplants in the "quick freeze" mode at -23 ° C, and store at a temperature of at least -15 ° C until the next harvest. If the temperature is higher in the freezer, then keep frozen eggplants for pizza for 3-6 months.
See also a video recipe on how to cook frozen eggplant for the winter.
