Fried eggplant with garlic and mayonnaise

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   How to make fried eggplant with garlic and mayonnaise? Prepare the ingredients listed in the recipe. How to choose the right eggplant for this dish? The fruits should be medium-sized with a shiny dark skin. Do not take brown, wrinkled, soft and damaged vegetables. Make sure that the stalk is in place.

2. Step 2:

   

   Wash the eggplants, dry them, remove the stalk. Cut into slices (about 0.7-2 cm thick), trying to preserve the original shape of the vegetable.

3. Step 3:

   

   Put the eggplants on a plate, add salt and leave for 10-15 minutes. To avoid bitterness in the taste, add salt to the vegetables, leave for 30 minutes. Drain the resulting liquid and dry each slice of eggplant with a napkin.

4. Step 4:

   

   Prepare all the products necessary for making the sauce.

5. Step 5:

   

   Peel the garlic, pass it through the press. In a container, combine mayonnaise with Provencal herbs, ground pepper and garlic. If for some reason you don't like mayonnaise, replace it with sour cream (of any fat content) or natural yogurt without additives.

7. Step 6:

   

   Stir the sauce until smooth.

8. Step 7:

   

   In a frying pan, heat the vegetable oil well with a high smoking temperature. Lay out the eggplants. Fry them on both sides (about 2-4 minutes) over medium heat until browned. Add oil to the pan as needed.

9. Step 8:

   

   Put the fried eggplants on a paper towel, which will absorb excess fat. Lay out in the same sequence as they were arranged when slicing. Let them cool down a little.

10. Step 9:

    

    Brush each eggplant circle with mayonnaise-garlic sauce (about 1-2 tablespoons each) and put it on a dish, recreating the whole vegetable. It is necessary to control that the circles do not mix with each other and do not knock down the correct sequence and, as a result, the finished dish retains stability.