Eggplant is an excellent vegetable in which there are very few calories, but there are plenty of vitamins and pectin. This composition helps to eliminate toxins and toxins from the body and improve the condition of the skin with regular use of the product. Well, baking eggplant in the oven would be a great idea for everyday dining. This is not at all as laborious as it seems at first glance - you do not have to stand for hours at the stove.
Whole baked eggplant
You will need medium sized eggplants. Wash vegetables thoroughly without clipping ponytails. Make a small incision in each on one side. Place the eggplant upside down on the wire rack and place it on the baking sheet. Heat the oven to 180 degrees and bake vegetables for at least twenty minutes in it. Readiness can be checked by a match, a toothpick, a knife or a fork. If you enter without pressure, the vegetable is ready. You can take it out of the oven, wait a bit until it slightly fades away, and peel it. Such baked eggplant is delicious on its own, but it’s even better to eat it with butter, salt and garlic. You can also crush the vegetable in mashed potatoes and use as a side dish for any dish.
Oven baked eggplant slices
Another option for the preparation of the so-called “little blue ones” is baking with slices. Take medium sized eggplants, wash and dry.
Cut each into three to four pieces, depending on the size of the vegetables. The thickness of one lobule should be about two centimeters. Lay the resulting slices in rows on a baking sheet, pour with vegetable oil and bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees. You can pre-salt, or you can just bake. When the slices are lightly browned, they must be removed from the oven. Oven baked eggplant in slices, perfect in combination with minced garlic. It can be eaten as an independent dish, or can be served as a side dish.
Oven baked eggplant in foil
Connoisseurs of the most natural and dietary foods will most enjoy cooking using foil. As in previous recipes, it is best to choose medium-sized eggplants.
Wash the vegetables, dry with a paper towel or napkin, carefully wrap each in foil. Place them on a baking sheet so that there are free spaces between them, and send for half an hour into the oven, heated to 200 degrees.
Fragrant Eggplant with Garlic
Another cooking option in foil. Take four eggplant and four tomatoes, three hundred grams of hard cheese, garlic and salt. Grind the garlic and mix with oil, pepper and salt to get the sauce. Wash and dry the eggplants, make longitudinal deep cuts. Cut the tomatoes into thin circles, and the cheese into small rectangles. Grease the eggplant in the incisions with the sauce, put the tomatoes and cheese in it, wrap in foil. Then put in the oven and bake at 200 degrees for about a quarter of an hour. Then unfold the foil and leave the open eggplants in the oven for the same period of time. Ready vegetables will turn out to be very juicy and piquant and will suit any dish as an excellent side dish.