Eggplant is a versatile vegetable that is easy to prepare, but the result is always exquisite. There are even ways to cook eggplant in a slow cooker, so dishes from this vegetable can also be prepared in situations where time is running out.
One way or another, remembering a few recipes will be useful anyway.
Original soup puree
If you are considering what to cook with eggplant for the first, try making this soup. It will take two large tomatoes, two eggplant, a couple tablespoons of olive oil, a medium-sized onion, a few cloves of garlic, dried thyme, a liter of chicken or vegetable broth, sixty milliliters of cream, one hundred grams of feta cheese, pepper and salt to taste. Tomatoes and eggplant need to be cut in half, greased with olive oil, salt and sprinkle with pepper. In the oven, heated to two hundred degrees, they need to be baked for about forty minutes. During this time, you can chop onions and chop the garlic, fry them in oil. Baked vegetables should be mixed with onions, pour the broth and add spices. Bring to a boil, reduce heat and cover. After twenty minutes, the dish can be chopped in a blender and served with chopped feta.
Moussaka
Another option for what to cook with eggplant is Greek moussaka.
You will need three eggplants, three tomatoes, a pair of garlic cloves, a glass of boiled rice, a can of beans, a glass of tomato juice, a bunch of fresh parsley, bread crumbs and butter. Vegetables need to be cut and fry in oil. Mix boiled rice with beans and put in a greased baking dish in layers. Pour in
tomato juice, sprinkle with breadcrumbs. Cook in the oven for half an hour.
Eggplant Appetizer
For this dish you can cook grilled eggplants or bake them in the oven. This will take only a quarter of an hour at a temperature of about one hundred and fifty degrees. Peel the prepared vegetables, mash with a fork, mix with adjika, pepper and salt. Serving such an appetizer is most delicious on brown bread.
Eggplant in a pot
This is another unusual dish. If you do not know what to cook from eggplant for a festive table, try this option. Take three vegetables, sixty grams of walnuts, three cloves of garlic and a tablespoon of lemon juice. Cut the eggplant into two halves and soak in salted water, rinse and cut into cubes.
Sauté them in oil. Grind nuts, garlic and salt in a blender, add pepper and lemon juice. Dilute with water to the state of sour cream and pour sauce on the eggplant laid out in pots. Bake at a temperature of two hundred degrees for about forty minutes, and before serving, sprinkle with fresh parsley.
Mushroom snack
Another option of what to cook with eggplant is an appetizer with mushrooms. You will need three eggplants, two hundred grams of pickled mushrooms, onions, a tablespoon of oil and a couple of spoons of tomato juice, herbs and salt. Cut the eggplants into two parts, soak in salted water for fifteen minutes and remove the cores from them. Fry mushrooms with onions in a frying pan, cool and grind in a meat grinder with eggplant. Add greens to the resulting stuffing. Fill the remaining “boat" with eggplant stuffing, combine the halves and simmer for half an hour in a saucepan with boiling water and tomato juice.