How to make juicy, tender and savory baked eggplant with bell pepper in oven sauce? Features of preparation and a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Autumn has finally arrived, when all the favorite summer vegetables are on sale at an affordable price. These are zucchini, tomatoes, eggplants, and real sweet peppers straight from the garden. Today I propose to cook eggplants with bell peppers in the oven. They are ingeniously prepared all over the world and most of the recipes are the author's imagination. Under the influence of "dry" heat or under a stream of hot air in the oven, any food is cooked quickly, retaining all the nutrients, juices and acquiring a unique taste. The combination of the taste of baked vegetables is amazing - eggplant with pepper, seasoned with aromatic spices. The whole family will love this wonderful dish. It is tasty, light and healthy. It contains all the healing vitamins of summer vegetables. These vegetables will appeal to even those who cannot imagine eating without meat.
This delicious dish can be a stand-alone dish or serve as a side dish with or without meat. This is the choice of every consumer. A large baking sheet of these baked vegetables can be a good snack at a gala feast. Other than that, the recipe is pretty simple. The proportions of eggplant and spices in the recipe are arbitrary. Therefore, each chef can independently decide the proportions of products. It is also worth noting that, if desired, the set of products can be supplemented with other vegetables. For example, zucchini and tomatoes will harmonize well here. And if you want to make your dish more satisfying, then add a few tubers of young potatoes.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 105 kcal.
- Servings - 3
- Cooking time - 1 hour 15 minutes
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 2 pcs.
- Bitter pepper - 1 pc.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp
- Sweet bell pepper - 2-3 pcs.
- Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Mustard - 1 tsp
- Olive oil - 3-5 tablespoons
- Garlic - 1 clove
Step-by-step cooking of baked eggplants with bell peppers in sauce in the oven, recipe with photo:
1. Pour olive oil, soy sauce and mustard into a large deep bowl.
2. Add black pepper and stir the dressing.
3. Wash the eggplants, dry with a paper towel and cut into 1 cm thick rings. Send the eggplants to the marinade. If the fruits are old, then bitterness must be removed from them. To do this, sprinkle the sliced eggplant with salt and leave for 1 hour. Then rinse them with running water and rinse off the secreted juice.
4. Wash the bell peppers and dry with a paper towel. Remove the stalk, clean out the seeds, and cut off the inner partitions. Cut the pepper into wedges and marinate with the eggplant.
5. Toss the eggplant and peppers.
6. Peel the garlic, and the hot pepper - from the inner seeds. Cut food into small pieces.
7. Add them to the container with vegetables and stir. Leave the eggplant and pepper to marinate for 15-30 minutes.
8. After this time, place the vegetables on a baking sheet.
9. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and send vegetables to bake for half an hour. Check readiness with a puncture of a knife or fork: they should be soft. Serve cooked baked eggplants with bell peppers in sauce in the oven warm or chilled. They can be used to make a warm salad or use for filling in pies.
See also a video recipe on how to cook eggplant baked with vegetables in the oven.
