The most delicious and healthy are baked vegetables. Also delicious pickled vegetables. By combining two cooking methods in one dish, you get a delicious snack. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of pickled eggplants with bell pepper baked in the oven.
In summer, be sure to indulge yourself with seasonal vegetables, cooked in any form. Of the huge assortment, the most popular are eggplants and sweet bell peppers. These vegetables are meaty, savory and delicious in any form. In addition, these are indispensable vegetables for people who monitor their figure and want to lose weight. In addition, peppers and eggplants baked in the oven, without oil, in their own juice, will preserve vitamins and microelements as much as possible.
Eggplants with peppers can be stewed, fried, pickled and baked. However, the most delicious vegetables are baked in the oven. And if, after baking, they are also marinated, then you get an incredibly tasty snack. After reading this article, you will be happy to use this recipe constantly in your everyday life. And if desired, such a dish can be prepared all year round. To do this, you only need to freeze the baked vegetables for the winter for future use. Then cooking a snack will not be a hassle. Thawed vegetables and pickled. Such an appetizer can become both an independent dish and perfectly complement a meat steak or boiled young potatoes.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 85 kcal.
- Servings - 2
- Cooking time - 40 minutes, plus time for pickling vegetables
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Hot pepper - 0.5 pods
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Sweet bell pepper - 2 pcs.
- Greens, herbs and spices - to taste
- Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons
- Soy sauce - 2 tablespoons
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Garlic - 2 cloves
- Sugar - 0.5 tsp
Step-by-step cooking of pickled eggplants with bell pepper baked in the oven, recipe with photo:
1. Wash the eggplants and cut them into bars 3 cm long and 1 cm wide. You don’t need to peel them, otherwise they will lose their shape when baked.
Eggplant has one unpleasant property - the vegetable contains solanine. It is a harmful substance that gives the fruit bitterness, which can persist after heat treatment. However, such bitterness is present mainly in old ripe fruits, and there is no such bitterness in a young vegetable. If your fruits are old, then pre-processing will help to save the situation. Salt the sliced eggplants, mix and after 20 minutes, rinse with running water and pat dry with a paper towel. A detailed recipe with step-by-step photos of how to remove bitterness from eggplants can be found on the pages of the site using the search bar.
2. Peel the bell peppers from internal seeds and partitions. Rinse under running water and dry with a paper towel. Cut vegetables into long wedges.
3. Grease a baking sheet with a thin layer of vegetable oil and lay out the vegetables. Send them to bake in an oven heated to 180 degrees for 20 minutes.
4. Remove the chilled vegetables from the baking sheet and put them in a container in which you will marinate them. Add minced garlic and finely chopped hot peppers.
5. Season vegetables with soy sauce with vegetable oil, stir and send to the refrigerator to marinate for 1-2 hours. If you wish, you can add vinegar to the marinated eggplants with bell pepper baked in the oven.
See also a video recipe on how to cook pickled eggplant with pepper.
