The question of how to prepare eggplant for the winter arises among many housewives, because you want to pamper your loved ones with something unusual and tasty, in addition to traditional caviar made from these vegetables. Eggplants for the winter, reminiscent of pickled mushrooms to taste, will be a great snack and decorate the table, both on weekdays and on holidays.
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You will need
- - 5 kg of eggplant;
- - 3 tablespoons salts;
- - 0.5 kg of onions;
- - 5 heads of garlic;
- - refined vegetable oil for frying;
- - 2 glasses of water;
- - 4 things. bay leaf;
- - 0.5 cups of vinegar (6%);
- - 8 peas of black pepper.
Instruction manual
1
Wash the eggplants and peel them, and then cut them into small bars that resemble mushroom legs in shape.
2
Put the chopped eggplant in a wide bowl, add salt and leave x for 2 hours. During this time, bitterness will come out of the eggplant. Prepare onions and garlic: peel, wash and dry. Cut the onions in half rings, and divide the garlic into slices and cut each half in half.
3
Pour 2-3 tbsp into the pan. vegetable oil, heat it and put the eggplant previously squeezed from the juice. It is not necessary to spread all the vegetables at once in the pan, it is better to cook them in small batches, turning them so that they are slightly fried on both sides.
4
Put the fried eggplant in an enameled pan with a layer of about 4 cm, lay a layer of chopped garlic and onion on top of them. Spread the vegetables in layers until they run out.
5
Now you can do the cooking of the marinade. Pour 2 cups of water into a small saucepan, add pepper, bay leaf and vinegar. Boil the marinade and pour eggplant on it. Cover the pan with vegetables and put it in the refrigerator for 2 days, after that you can serve the eggplant with the taste of mushrooms to the table.
6
If you want to prepare eggplants "for mushrooms" for the winter, then put them in glass jars with a volume of 0.5 l and sterilize for 15 minutes, then roll up the jars.