Oven baked eggplants are incredibly tasty. However, the dish can be easily spoiled if you overdo it in the oven or choose the wrong baking temperature. Therefore, before you start cooking, you should familiarize yourself with all the nuances of cooking these vegetables.
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Eggplant - vegetables that are suitable for both canning and cooking light soups, vitamin salads, casseroles and snacks. The easiest way to get the most delicious, and most importantly - a healthy dish of eggplant is to bake whole vegetables, halves or circles in the oven.
Baked eggplant can be either an independent dish (especially if greens, spices and cheese were used in cooking), or act as a side dish for meat and fish. However, to make the dish tasty and healthy, it is important to properly prepare the vegetables for baking, and when cooking, strictly observe the temperature regime and set a specific baking time for a particular dish.
The fact is that the cooking time for eggplant directly depends on the size of the baked pieces - the larger they are, the heat treatment should be longer and vice versa. For example, if the eggplant is baked in the oven, cut into circles of 1-1.5 centimeters, then the cooking time should not exceed 20 minutes (at 180-190 degrees). Medium-sized fruits, cut in half, require a little more time for complete baking - 30-35 minutes of exposure in the oven at a temperature of 190-200 degrees. Well, for baking medium and large eggplants, it is entirely necessary to spend up to an hour while baking in an oven heated to 200 degrees.
It is also worth noting that eggplant requires special preparation for heat treatment, as some vegetables have a peculiarity to be bitter. It is not difficult to remove the bitterness from the fruit, but it takes time. For example, if you need to bake vegetables, cut into slices, then slices should first be sprinkled with salt, soak for 30-40 minutes, then rinse in cold water. Whole fruits, however, need a 12-hour soaking in saline solution (a tablespoon of salt per liter of water).