Fried eggplants with tomatoes and garlic

Step-by-step preparation

Cooking time: 30 mins

1. STEP 1

   

   How to fry eggplants with tomatoes and garlic? Prepare all the necessary products. Of course, it is best to take seasonal domestic vegetables - they are not as beautiful, but much healthier. Eggplants should be small, with a matte skin. I advise you to choose tomatoes by smell - real tasty tomatoes should smell like tomatoes. They should also have a rich color.

2. STEP 2

   

   Wash the eggplant under running water, dry, remove the stalk and cut into circles about 1 cm thick. If you want your appetizer to be taller, the circles can be much thicker, something like “stumps”, about 2 cm.

3. STEP 3

   

   Eggplants are believed to have a bitter taste. Although, in my opinion, modern eggplant varieties do not have any bitterness. But just in case, let’s use one of the methods to remove this bitterness. It is enough to salt the sliced ​​eggplant mugs or put them in salted water and leave them for 10-15 minutes. Then drain the water and rinse the eggplants. This method will also make them crispier.

4. STEP 4

   

   Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan: it can be any kind, corn, rapeseed, or sunflower will do. But I want to clarify one point: only refined types of vegetable oils are suitable for frying, because only such ones do not burn in the 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.

5. STEP 5

   

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

6. STEP 6

   

   Wash the tomato well, preferably using a special vegetable washing product. Then remove the stem and cut into circles. It’s great if the tomato and eggplant mugs match in size.

7. STEP 7

   

   Place tomato slices on the garlic and serve the appetizer to the table. If desired, garnish with parsley, dill, basil or any other.

8. STEP 8

   

   This appetizer will successfully decorate any table. Bon appetit!

Comments on the recipe

katyshaa

18.12.2023

4.7

It will be delicious to fry eggplants without tomatoes, but with garlic.

Moderator Ksenia

18.12.2023

4.8

My son asked me to cook eggplants. She offered him several recipes to choose from. He chose this recipe for fried eggplant with tomatoes and garlic. I remember fried eggplants from childhood, when my mother cooked them. Only she didn't put tomatoes on top. Which, as it turns out, comes in very handy. They add some freshness to the dish. I cut the eggplant into slices about half a centimeter thick and soaked it, as the author advised, in salt water for about 10 minutes. It took me about 3 minutes on one side and 2 minutes on the other to fry. I took four cloves of garlic. True, my son asked me to put less garlic next time. I placed the finished eggplants on a napkin to absorb excess oil. Thank you very much for the recipe! Delicious, simple, appetizing.

mother of a sweet tooth

18.12.2023

4.6

This is amazingly delicious!

New cook

18.12.2023

4.6

My favorite dish!

mother of a sweet tooth

18.12.2023

4.9

A very tasty dish. There are people who cannot eat store-bought mayonnaise. Then it can be replaced with thick sour cream. I also like to add a little very finely grated hard cheese to the filling. It turns out even tastier and more interesting and the filling holds its shape very well, the dish does not float.

Eroshka

18.12.2023

4.5

One of our family's favorite eggplant dishes! Only I mix mayonnaise with sour cream 1:1 for the sauce. Well, garlic, of course - you can’t do without it. I also do the same thing, only with zucchini. Very tasty too