The following recipes will help you to take a fresh look at the taste of a vegetable called eggplant. Especially such preparations will attract mushroom lovers, since eggplants cooked in this way are very similar to them.
How to cook salted aubergines as mushrooms for the winter?
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 4 kg;
- garlic - 2 heads;
- vegetable refined oil - 750 ml;
- vinegar 9% - 300 ml;
- salt - 200-250 g;
- water filtered - 5 l;
- a large bunch of fresh dill.
Preparation
We remove the washed aubergine fruits from the pedicels and the skin and shred with cubes about one and a half to two centimeters in size. In a large container, pour water, warm it to a boil, dissolve salt in it and pour in the vinegar, and then lay the previously prepared eggplant. Let the contents boil again, stand on the fire for four or five minutes, and then throw it back on a large colander. We leave it until it cools down and drains for about one to two hours.
Meanwhile, we clean and shinkle very finely garlic and pre-washed and dried greens of dill and measure the necessary amount of vegetable oil without a smell.
After cooling, we shift the eggplant slices into a capacious bowl, season with butter, garlic and dill, gently mix, unfold on clean and dry jars and lightly tamp. We cover the containers with tin lids, place them in the vessel with cold water on the hangers and determine it on the fire. Sterilize the workpiece after boiling the water for thirty minutes half-liter jars and forty five-minute containers.
Then we seal the jars with covers, turn the bottom up and let them cool down completely in this position.
Marinated aubergines as spicy mushrooms - recipe for winter
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 3 kg;
- garlic - 2 heads;
- onion - 175 g;
- laurel leaves - 6 pcs .;
- peas of sweet pepper - 15 pcs .;
- buds of a carnation - 7 pieces;
- pepper spicy (optional) - to taste;
- water filtered - 5 l;
For marinade:
- water - 2 l;
- vinegar 9% - 150 ml;
- salt - 150 g;
- granulated sugar - 100 g.
Preparation
We wash the eggplant fruits, cut off the skin and stems from them, and chop the pulp, as in the previous recipe, with slices as large as one and a half to two centimeters. We boil them in boiling filtered water for three minutes and throw it back in a colander.
While eggplants are draining, we clean and shred the onion rings and small cubes of garlic with semicircles. Then lay layers of eggplants in clean and dry jars, alternating with garlic and onions, and seasoning with spices.
For the marinade in two liters of boiled water, dilute the salt, sugar and pour vinegar. Pour the resulting hot mixture of aubergines with spices in jars, cover them with lids and determine into a container with hot water for sterilization. We sustain half-liter jars fifteen, and liter thirty minutes. Then we seal the jars with lids and let the workpiece cool in an inverted form.
Eggplant fried with mushrooms - recipe for winter
Ingredients:
- eggplant - 2-2,2 kg;
- onion - 175 g;
- garlic - 7-9 teeth;
- laurel leaves;
- salt;
- fresh parsley or celery;
- vegetable refined oil;
For marinade:
- water filtered - 160 ml;
- vegetable oil - 160 ml;
- vinegar 9% - 160 ml.
Preparation
Washed eggplants necessarily get rid of the pedicels, and if desired, from the skin. Then shred the fruits with cubes from one and a half to two centimeters and put them in an enameled container. Generously pour them with salt and let stand for an hour to get rid of bitterness, separation of juice and salt absorption.
In the meantime, we clean and shred semicircles onions,
Rinse the eggplant slices from the salt, throw it back in a colander and let it drain off. Then we put them into the vegetable oil heated on a frying pan or in a saucepan and let it stand until lightly browned.
Fill the fried eggplant with clean, dry jars, leaving a little space. We lay onion and garlic, laurel leaves and chopped greens (you can replace it with dried one). Warm up water to boil, pour vinegar and vegetable oil, mix, give again to boil, and then we pour on jars, filling them to the top. Sterilize the half-liter containers ten, and liter fifteen minutes.