Easy on the stomach, but quite hearty. The aroma is fragrant, the taste is spicy. Vegetables are soft but firm and not watery. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of cooking spicy eggplant in the oven. Video recipe.
All year round, this wonderful oblong blue-purple vegetable can be seen on store shelves. Previously, eggplants were often only fried. But a tasty delicacy turned into a fatty, not healthy dish with an abundance of carcinogens. Because when frying, eggplants absorb a lot of oil. But modern technologies have stepped forward, providing us with a huge amount of highly functional equipment: ovens, stoves, microwave ovens, multicooker, double boiler. And along with them new and interesting recipes appeared. Baked spicy eggplants in the oven, perhaps, occupy one of the highest levels of popularity. This is a tasty and healthy dish that goes well with a lot of ingredients.
In the oven, eggplants can be cooked at least every day with a variety of options, while they will never get bored. Eggplants themselves are good for a balanced diet, because it is also a source of valuable substances. In the oven, the fruits do not absorb oil and other fats, so the dish turns out to be very useful. According to this recipe, even the most inept housewife can cook eggplants, because they are almost impossible to spoil.
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- Caloric content per 100 g - 95 kcal.
- Servings - 3-4
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 3 pcs.
- Sumakh - 0.5 tsp
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Vegetable or olive oil - 2 tablespoons
- Hot pepper - 0.5 pods
- Cumin - 0.5 tsp
- Dry wine - 2 tablespoons
- Garlic - 3 cloves
- Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon
- Salt - 1 tsp or to taste
Step by step cooking spicy eggplant in the oven, recipe with photo:
1. Select a deep container that will hold all the eggplants and pour the soy sauce into it.
2. Then add wine. Wine may be the cheapest.
3. Pour in vegetable oil next.
4. Place a spoonful of mustard behind the butter.
5. Peel the garlic, wash and finely chop. Peel hot bitter peppers from seeds, because they contain most of the pungency, and chop them finely. Add the garlic and pepper to the marinade.
6. Add cumin, sumac, black pepper to the sauce.
7. Stir the sauce well.
8. Remove the stalk from the eggplant, wash and dry with a paper towel. Cut the fruits lengthwise into 3-4 rings and divide each into 4 more pieces. At this stage, you need to get rid of the bitterness of the eggplants. This can be done using salt in two ways: dry and wet. These detailed recipes can be found on the pages of the site using the search bar. Moreover, such an action should be carried out only with mature eggplants, because dairy fruits do not contain bitterness.
9. Send the eggplants to the marinade container and stir well to cover each bite. If you have free time, you can leave the eggplants to marinate.
10. Place the eggplants on a baking sheet and salt.
11. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and send the spicy eggplant to bake for half an hour. Serve ready-made eggplants hot with a fried steak or any other side dish or on their own. They can be part of a warm salad. They are also delicious after cooling down.
See also a video recipe on how to cook baked eggplant in the oven.
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