Eggplant light for winter

Spicy, fragrant and incredibly delicious preparation for the winter! Eggplant ogonek is one of the most beautiful options for a blue salad. The preparation can be served as an independent snack or offered as an addition to meat dishes and potatoes.
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Composition / ingredients

servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 9 % 1 g
Fats 27 % 3 g
Carbohydrates 64 % 7 g
56 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to make eggplant light for the winter? Prepare all the necessary products for the preparation of a delicious snack. Rinse eggplants, tomatoes, bell peppers and chili in clean water, remove the stems from the eggplants.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the blue circles about one centimeter thick. Why shouldn't eggplants be made thinner? Because there is a possibility that the eggplants will lose their shape or the circles may break at all when laid out of the jar. Cover the blue ones with one tablespoon of salt.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Pour cold water into a container with eggplants so that it covers the blue ones, gently mix everything so that the salt dissolves. Cover the eggplants with a flat plate and place a small weight so that the circles are completely immersed in salt water. This procedure will get rid of the bitterness in eggplants and with further frying, the blue ones will absorb less oil.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    At this time, prepare the rest of the vegetables for harvesting. In Bulgarian pepper and chili pepper, cut off the stalk and remove the seeds, peel the garlic.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Drain the eggplants and squeeze them lightly with your hands.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Heat a small amount of vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry the eggplants on both sides until an appetizing golden crust appears. Put the finished circles on paper napkins to get rid of excess oil.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Put tomatoes and bell peppers through a meat grinder.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Grate garlic and chili pepper on a fine grater. You can also skip these two ingredients through a meat grinder, but in this case, small pieces of garlic and chili will be felt in the finished dish.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Put the twisted vegetables in a saucepan, add salt, sugar, vinegar and vegetable oil (80ml). Mix and taste, if you lack any component, add it as desired.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Put the container with vegetables on high heat, reduce the stove to a minimum after boiling and cook the sauce for about five minutes (stir occasionally so that nothing burns).

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Remove the dishes from the heat. Send part of the eggplant into a saucepan, mix lightly with a spoon so that all the circles are immersed in the fragrant sauce.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Arrange the circles with a tablespoon in sterile jars (cans can be sterilized in the oven, in the microwave or in a water bath). Take one eggplant circle at a time, scooping up quite a bit of tomato and pepper filling, and send it in layers to the jar. When the eggplants are finished in the pan, send the other half of the circles to the tomato sauce, mix and tamp again into the jars.

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Top each jar with the remains of the sauce almost to the top.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Put the filled jars in a saucepan or a large cup, pour water so that it practically covers the entire jar and send it to a high heat. After boiling, reduce the stove to medium and sterilize the workpiece for 15 minutes.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Roll up the jars with sterile lids and leave at room temperature until completely cooled. Then the workpiece can be put in the refrigerator, or a cellar for long-term storage.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    The sample can be taken in a week. Fragrant and incredibly delicious eggplants are ready!

There are several ways to fill cans:
1* you can dip each circle of eggplant into the sauce, and then send it to the jar.
2* there is also an option of alternately sending a circle of eggplant and a small amount of sauce to the container (pour about 0.5-1 tsp of sauce + a circle of eggplant to the bottom of the jar and so on until
3* the third method is described in the recipe, it is the most optimal and simple, as it seemed to me.

From the specified amount of ingredients, I got about 900-1000 milliliters of the finished product.

If desired, you can use fresh herbs when cooking. Parsley or cilantro are perfect here.
If you decide to cook with herbs, then you need to wash it well, cut it not very large, send it to the sauce in step number 9, and then everything according to the recipe.


Bon appetit!

How to calculate the number of cans, why banks explode and how to avoid it, as well as secrets and life hacks, read the article about preparations for the winter.

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which is better not to use at all, read here .

Important! An incorrectly selected frying pan can ruin even the best recipe. All the details on how to choose the perfect frying pan for different dishes read here .

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Sweet pepper - 27   kcal/100g
  • Eggplant - 24   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Wine vinegar (3%) - 9   kcal/100g
  • Vinegar 9% - 11   kcal/100g
  • Balsamic vinegar - 88   kcal/100g
  • Apple vinegar - 14   kcal/100g
  • Vinegar - 11   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Chili pepper - 40   kcal/100g

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