Eggplant salad (blue) for the winter - 13 cooking recipes

There are many ways to prepare eggplant salad for the winter - recipes for this are available in most national cuisines. And you can choose any one you like, in accordance with personal preferences, cooking methods, and composition of products.

A popular method is one in which vegetables are chopped and stewed until tender in a large saucepan (one might even say boiled). And then they wrap it in sterilized jars, filling them to the top.

There are those where eggplants cut into long slices are fried in oil, placed in jars and poured with a vegetable mixture that is more like a thick sauce. It is also pre-cooked and boiled for several minutes.

Along with eggplants, the preparation can include any vegetables of your choice: bell peppers, tomatoes, zucchini, onions, carrots, green beans, beans, boiled rice. The consistency of the dish is less like a salad and more like a stew, but these are minor things.

If you want to get a “dryer” version, lay the eggplants in jars in neat layers, interspersing them with inserts of other vegetables. Everything is pre-baked in the oven until done. In this case, the juice does not get into the jars. Instead, a marinade is taken from vegetable oil, salt, sugar, vinegar and a small amount of water. It is permissible to fry eggplants and add raw bell peppers cut into cubes.

An important question that concerns many: is it necessary to peel eggplants for salad?

Answer: no, it is not necessary. Eggplants work well unpeeled. And ways to rid them of excess bitterness will be described in the recipe.

Such preparations of this dish are very popular among Russian housewives, the taste of which is reminiscent of mushroom. One method doesn’t even require glass jars. You need to bake the eggplants in the oven, cool them and peel them. Then place the whole thing in a plastic bag and freeze in portions in the freezer. When baking vegetables, it is better to undercook them. When it comes time to defrost one, you can be sure that the blue ones taste very much like mushrooms. You can use this by adding them to a variety of dishes, including winter salads.