How beautiful and delicious to bake eggplant

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Eggplants are very fond of housewives for their unpretentiousness and ease of preparation. Due to the fact that the vegetable has a neutral taste, it goes well with meat, suitable as an ingredient for stews, s altworts and other dishes. It can also be pickled and prepared for the winter. Today in our article we will look at how to bake eggplant. Agree, this method of cooking is much more useful than frying in a large amount of oil, because the "blue ones" absorb fat like a sponge, and the dish becomes, although appetizing, but extremely high in calories. To avoid this, it is best to cook the vegetable in the oven.

Baked eggplant with minced meat: cooking "boats" stuffed with cheese crust

This dish can also be served at the festive table, because these are not just vegetables cut into pieces, but "boats" inside which delicious minced meat is hidden, moreover, there will be a ruddy cheese crust on top - no one can resist. For a meal for youwill need:

• 4 medium sized eggplants - long shaped and large diameter vegetables are best;
• 400 gr. any minced meat - pork, beef or chicken;
• 1 pc. tomatoes and onions, and a clove of garlic;
• 200 gr. "Parmesan" or other hard cheese;
• a little bit of parsley and dill, s alt and pepper and mayonnaise.

Baking eggplant in this case is very simple: first prepare the vegetables: wash, cut exactly in half, s alt and put in a bowl - they should stand a little and give juice. After 20 minutes, drain the juice, rinse the vegetables and cut out the pulp with a spoon. You should get "boats" with walls 1 cm thick. The pulp should be cut into cubes. The workpiece must be laid out on a baking sheet, grease the eggplants with oil and bake for 15 minutes (the oven must be preheated to 230 degrees). During this time, prepare the filling: remove the skin from the tomatoes, for this you need to pour boiling water over them, so the skin will be removed very simply, and then the pulp should be cut into cubes. Finely chop the onion, garlic and herbs. Fry the vegetables in a pan - first the eggplant pulp, then add onion and garlic to them, s alt, pepper and put in a bowl. After that, the same thing needs to be done with minced meat. When the meat is ready, combine it with fried vegetables - you get the filling. Then remove the semi-finished "boats" from the oven, stuff them with a mixture of minced meat and vegetables, sprinkle generously with chopped "Parmesan" and sendput them in the oven for half an hour. By the way, you can bake eggplant without meat - then you get a vegetarian dish. You can put fried bell peppers and zucchini in the filling. Then the dish will turn out not only completely vegetable, but also low-calorie. That's just cheese in this case, you need to take as little as possible.

Whole baked eggplant

In most dishes, we are used to adding vegetables cut into pieces or plates, but in this recipe it is proposed to cook whole eggplants and serve with mayonnaise (sour cream) and garlic sauce, they can also be added to salads, pre-cut into pieces, or use as a garnish. Take the required amount of eggplant, wash, cut off the green top. To make the vegetable bake better, make 2-3 punctures with a fork on one side. Place them on a wire rack and place a baking sheet underneath. Bake eggplant at maximum temperature for 40 minutes. Eggplant is very tasty with meat, so if you are looking for a tasty and original side dish for your second meal, eggplant cooked this way is the right choice.