Fried eggplant with tomatoes and garlic

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Prepare all the necessary products. Vegetables, of course, it is best to take seasonal domestic ones - they are not so beautiful, but much more useful. Eggplants should be small, with a matte peel. Tomatoes, I advise you to choose by smell - real delicious tomatoes should also smell like tomatoes. And they should also have a rich color.

2. Step 2:

   

   Remove the stalk from the eggplant and cut into circles about 1 cm thick.If you want your snack to be higher, then the mugs can be much thicker, something like "stumps", approximately 2 cm.

3. Step 3:

   

   It is believed that eggplants have a bitter taste. Although in my opinion, modern varieties of eggplant have no bitterness. But just in case, let's use one of the ways to remove this bitterness. It is enough to salt the sliced eggplant mugs or put them in salt water. Then drain the water and rinse the eggplants. Thanks to this method, they will also turn out more crispy.

4. Step 4:

   

   Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan: it can be any for the main product: corn, rapeseed and sunflower are suitable. But I want to clarify one point: only refined types of vegetable oils are suitable for frying - only such do not burn in a frying pan. Place the eggplant mugs and fry over medium heat for 3-4 minutes on each side. Then remove the eggplants from the heat and cool slightly.

6. Step 5:

   

   Put fried eggplants on a plate for serving snacks, chopped garlic on them. I passed the clove through the press, but you can also grate it or finely chop it with a sharp knife.

7. Step 6:

   

   Wash the tomato well, preferably using a special vegetable detergent. Then remove the stalk and cut into circles. It's great if the tomato and eggplant mugs are the same size.

8. Step 7:

   

   Put the tomato mugs on the garlic and serve the appetizer to the table.

9. Step 8:

   

   This snack will successfully decorate any table. Bon appetit!