Eggplant stewed in sour cream with garlic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make eggplant stewed in sour cream with garlic? Prepare the products. It is better to cook such a dish in autumn, in the season of the ripest and most delicious vegetables. Ideally, use small elastic fruits. But at any other time of the year, you can pamper yourself: the eggplant will be larger in size and more beautiful, glossy. Take any vegetable oil: sunflower and olive oil will do.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the eggplant well, remove the stalk and cut into cubes. The size of the cubes may be to your taste, but I do not advise you to be too small, since the finished dish can turn into porridge. How to remove the bitterness from eggplant? Add salt to the sliced eggplants, leave for about 10 minutes until the juice is released. Drain the resulting liquid, rinse the eggplants and start cooking.

3. Step 3:

   

   Heat the vegetable oil in a saucepan or in a frying pan. Lay out the eggplants and lightly fry them over medium heat until golden brown, stirring. If you previously soaked eggplants in water, dry them well so that there are no splashes when frying in oil.

4. Step 4:

   

   Add salt. It is better to salt the eggplants not at the very end, so that they have time to give their liquid, which will evaporate during the stewing process — then the dish will not be watery.

6. Step 5:

   

   Peel the garlic, chop it and add it to the eggplant. I grate the cloves on a grater, but it can also be crushed with a knife or passed through a press. Fry for three minutes all together, stirring.

7. Step 6:

   

   Add sour cream: it can be of any fat content. If suddenly you do not have sour cream, it is quite possible to replace it with cream, preferably more fatty.

8. Step 7:

   

   Simmer all together for another 7-10 minutes. Make sure that the eggplant cubes remain elastic and keep their shape well.

9. Step 8:

   

   Serve the dish as an independent side dish or salad. It is very tasty both hot and cold. Bon appetit!