By adding only one product to the composition of an everyday vegetable salad, like eggplant, the dish will immediately acquire a new and interesting flavoring accent. A step-by-step recipe with a photo of a vegetable salad with fried eggplants and apples. Video recipe.
Eggplant is an unusual vegetable that goes well with many foods, flavors and seasonings. A huge variety of dishes are prepared from them. From the garlic-fried rings to the filling for pizzas, pies and other snacks. Today I present an equally interesting recipe where fried eggplants are in perfect harmony with the taste of fresh apples and fresh summer vegetables. It turns out to be a wonderful salad that will suit both a hearty breakfast and a late dinner for the whole family. Thanks to fried eggplants, the salad turns out to be hearty, the apples are slightly sweet, and the vegetables are juicy.
You can fill this salad with different dressings. The most common dressing is vegetable oil. But olive oil or a more complex component sauce made from olive oil, mustard, soy sauce, lemon juice is also suitable … Instead of olive and vegetable oils, soy, sesame, pumpkin and other oils can be used with equal success. You can supplement the salad with your favorite greens: parsley, mint, coriander, caraway seeds, basil, arugula, cilantro, dill, etc. Walnuts will also not be superfluous here, they go well with eggplants. In general, eggplants are very sensitive to the taste of their neighboring products. Therefore, seemingly insignificant changes in the recipe can completely change the taste of the food.
- Caloric content per 100 g - 195 kcal.
- Servings - 2-3
- Cooking time - 30 minutes
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 1 pc.
- Apple - 1 pc.
- Soy sauce - 1 tablespoon for salad dressing
- White cabbage - 100 g
- Radish - 5-6 pcs.
- Tomatoes - 1 pc.
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Cucumbers - 1 pc.
- Hot pepper - 0.25 pods
- Vegetable oil - for frying eggplant and salad dressing
- Garlic - 1 clove
Step-by-step preparation of a vegetable salad with fried eggplants and apples, a recipe with a photo:
1. Wash the eggplants, dry with a paper towel and cut into bars, cubes or half rings. Heat vegetable oil in a skillet and add eggplant. Fry them until golden brown on all sides.
Note: Cooking eggplant is good advice
- If the eggplants are old, they contain harmful solanine, which makes the dishes bitter. To remove it, sprinkle the sliced fruits with salt and leave for 15-30 minutes. Droplets form on the surface of the eggplant. This is the bitterness that came out of them. Then rinse the vegetables under running water and cook further according to the recipe.
- Eggplant is a dietary food, but it absorbs a lot of fat during the frying process. To prevent this, first soak the fruits in salt water before frying. Lying in the liquid "vegetables" will not absorb so much oil. Also, instead of frying the fruits, they can be baked in the oven. With baked eggplant, the salad will turn out to be just as tasty.
2. Chop the cabbage into thin strips, sprinkle with salt, crush it with your hands so that it lets out the juice, and send it to the fried eggplant.
3. Wash the tomatoes, dry and cut into slices.
4. Finely chop the peeled garlic clove and the seeds of the hot pepper.
5. Washed and dried cucumbers cut into thin half rings.
6. Wash the radishes, dry and cut into thin half rings.
7. Season salad with vegetable oil and soy sauce, stir and taste. Add a pinch of salt as needed. Serve the vegetable salad with fried eggplant and apples, chilled in the refrigerator.
See also a video recipe on how to make a spicy salad with fried eggplant and raw vegetables.
