Eggplant is the purple king among August vegetables.
He arrived in our country from distant tropical regions of India and quickly won the love of the people. It is not for nothing that humanity later brought out eggplants of various shapes and colors (except for the usual purple). And there are countless ways to cook eggplant.
And today “Otozh” will tell you how to surprise guests with a dish from this representative of the nightshade family. Our eggplant salad with egg and onion will confuse even an experienced taster. To everyone who tastes the dish, it seems that he is eating real mushrooms.
In fact, the main ingredient here is eggplant. It is surprising, but the most common products turn out to be a delicate and unusual salad. Isn’t this proof that cooking is an art?
Eggplant salad with onions
Ingredients:
- 3 medium-sized eggplants
- 3 chicken eggs
- 2 medium bulbs
- 3 Art. l mayonnaise
- sugar, salt and pepper to taste
Ingredients for the marinade:
- 1 teaspoon of sugar
- 0.5 teaspoons of salt
- 3 Art. l vinegar (9 percent)
- 70 ml of water
Preparation:
1. Boil hard-boiled eggs. Cool them, peel them and cut them into strips.
2. Wash the eggplants, cut them into small pieces. Add salt and let it stand for half an hour so that the bitterness goes away.
3. Marinate the onion. To do this, cut both onions into thin half-rings and add the ingredients for the marinade (boiled water, sugar, salt, vinegar). Mix thoroughly and let stand for 15 minutes.
4. Heat the pan, add sunflower oil and fry pieces of eggplant. Frying time is 6-8 minutes, no more. To remove excess fat from the eggplants, remove them from the pan directly onto a paper towel.
5. Place the eggplants in a salad container, add the previously chopped eggs and pickled onions. Ambassadors Season with mayonnaise, thoroughly mixing all the ingredients. Put the salad to infuse in the refrigerator for half an hour.
6. The salad is ready. You can marvel at its “mushroom” taste. Bon appetit!
Even an ardent hater of eggplants can without fear push this eggplant salad with pickled onions: a person will not understand the nature of the main ingredient. And when you explain everything to the one who tasted the salad, he will be very surprised and, perhaps, will not believe it at all.
And in what form do you prefer to eat these purple vegetables?
Share your secrets in the comments.