Grilled eggplant on the grill

A dietary option for a light and healthy dinner! Eggplant baked on the grill on the grill will be an ideal snack or side dish, and not only in nature. The taste of the finished dish depends on what spices and seasonings you will use, so it can be varied at your discretion.
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
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Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 11 % 2 g
Fats 32 % 6 g
Carbohydrates 58 % 11 g
82 kcal
GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 20 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to bake eggplant on the grill on the grill? The main ingredient for cooking the dish is eggplant. Wash the blue ones well, cut off the tails.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Cut the vegetable into not too thick plates, make the thickness from 0.5 to 0.7 centimeters. You can also cut the blue circles, then choose how you like it best.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Now let's start preparing sauces for greasing the finished eggplants. Prepare your favorite spices, tomatoes, vegetable oil, soy sauce and garlic.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Pour soy sauce and vegetable oil into a small container.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Peel the garlic and rinse it under running water. Pass the teeth through a press or a garlic press, you can also grate them on a fine grater (adjust the number of cloves to taste). Send garlic to soy sauce, add ground red pepper, dry basil and a pinch of nutmeg (these are the spices used in the recipe).

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Mix everything thoroughly.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    In another container, prepare the second sauce. Wash and dry the tomato. Cut the tomato in half and grate the pulp on a coarse grater, discard the peel (alternatively, you can use a blender). Take a ripe, meaty, sweet-tasting tomato, then the sauce will turn out to be more saturated. Add vegetable oil, garlic grated on a fine grater, salt to taste, pepper. I added another pinch of dry marjoram and quite a bit of lemon juice.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Mix everything well, taste it and add the missing ingredients if required.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Leave the sauces to infuse, and at this time prepare everything else.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Rinse the greens, dry them with a towel and cut them as finely as possible.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Light the grill, wait until the firewood burns out and good embers remain. Heat the grill on which you will fry the eggplants.

  12. Step 12:

    Step 12.

    Put the blue ones on the grill. Leave them until a beautiful golden color appears. It may take from one to several minutes in time (depends on what heat is in the grill).

  13. Step 13:

    Step 13.

    Turn the eggplants to the other side and leave on the coals until cooked. During the cooking process, you can turn the pieces over several times. You should focus primarily on softness and the appearance of an appetizing brown-gold color.

  14. Step 14:

    Step 14.

    Remove the finished blue ones into the grates. Spread half of the fried eggplants with a silicone brush with soy-garlic marinade.

  15. Step 15:

    Step 15.

    Sprinkle the herbs on top.

  16. Step 16:

    Step 16.

    Spread the second part of the vegetables with tomato sauce and sprinkle with herbs as well.

  17. Step 17:

    Step 17.

    Grilled eggplants are ready, you can serve!

The blue ones are especially delicious in cold form when they are infused and completely soaked with sauces.

Try both versions of the marinade and choose which one you like the most.
We have eggplants with tomato flavored sauce scattered faster than with soy-garlic marinade.

Such a dish can be served with kebabs, grilled sausages or offered as an independent snack.

Bon appetit!

Please note that in some cases there is no need to remove the bitterness from eggplants - usually young vegetables are not bitter, as well as some special varieties of them.

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

  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Eggplant - 24   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Fresh basil - 27   kcal/100g
  • Dried basil - 251   kcal/100g
  • Ground black pepper - 255   kcal/100g
  • Soy sauce - 51   kcal/100g
  • Vegetable oil - 873   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Ground red pepper - 318   kcal/100g
  • Marjoram dry - 271   kcal/100g
  • Nutmeg - 556   kcal/100g

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