Eggplants with garlic and mayonnaise are ideally combined with meat and vegetable dishes. How to prepare this delicious appetizer? This recipe will help with this.
Recipe content:
- Ingredients
- Step by step cooking
- Video recipe
Fried eggplants are a popular dish. And although this vegetable is considered capricious, it is very delicate and unique. A wide variety of delicious dishes can be prepared from this root vegetable. But fried eggplants are considered the most delicious and popular appetizer. By itself, this vegetable has practically no taste of its own. However, it can be used to make a surprisingly tasty and savory snack with mayonnaise and garlic. You will get an amazingly tasty dish, cooked at home on your own. Of course, such a dish is not at all dietary, but on the other hand, it is always a holiday on the table and a real pleasure!
This appetizer will be a great treat for all kinds of dishes. It goes perfectly with any side dish and meat. Eggplants for the recipe can be cut into circles and fried on both sides, and then pour with mayonnaise and season with garlic. Or you can cut them into long slices, fry them, grease them with mayonnaise with garlic and roll them up. It will turn out to be a wonderful, moderately spicy, piquant snack. And if you want to get a dietary dish, then bake the vegetable cut into rings or slices on a baking sheet in the oven.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 133 kcal.
- Servings - 1
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Dill - a couple of twigs
- Garlic - 2-3 cloves
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Mayonnaise - for dressing
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
Step by step preparation of fried eggplant with garlic and mayonnaise, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the eggplants, dry and cut into 5 mm rings. I recommend soaking the eggplants in a saturated saline solution for about half an hour before cooking. Firstly, when frying, eggplants actively absorb oil, and the accumulated moisture weakens this process. Secondly, the salt solution draws the characteristic bitterness out of the fruit. To bake them, it is enough to sprinkle the pieces with salt and stand for 10 minutes. After these procedures, the eggplants need to be washed and squeezed.
2. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and add the eggplant pieces. The heating of the pan and oil should be maximum so that the sides of the eggplants are quickly browned. When cooked over a low flame, the eggplant will absorb a lot of oil. Fry the fruits on one side until golden brown. Then add salt and pepper. Turn over and cook on the other side.
3. Place the fried eggplant slices on a platter and season with minced garlic.
4. Drizzle with mayonnaise and sprinkle with chopped dill. The fat content of the mayonnaise depends on your preference. But it is better to take a low-calorie mayonnaise, because fried eggplants are already quite fatty. Serve the finished snack warm or chilled.
See also a video recipe on how to cook eggplant with mayonnaise and garlic.
