Eggplant with minced meat - a win-win combination!
Dishes from these two ingredients are hearty, tasty, cooked simply, eaten quickly. For them, you do not even need an oven, everything is wonderful in a pan.
Eggplant with minced meat in a pan - general principles of cooking
Eggplant pretreatment involves cutting and removing bitterness. Usually prepared slices are poured with salted water or simply sprinkled with dry salt. Leave for 15-30 minutes, then just squeeze. It can be washed with cold water and squeezed.
Dishes of eggplant and minced meat in a pan are usually fried or stewed. Often two methods of heat treatment are combined, for example, vegetables and minced meat are first fried together or separately, then sauce, tomato juice or other filling is added, covered and stewed until cooked.
Fried eggplant with minced meat in a pan
The recipe for a simple dish of eggplant and minced meat in a pan. It can be full and independent or served with some kind of side dish. Use minced meat from any meat, you can even very fatty.
Ingredients
• 400 g of minced meat;
• 3-4 eggplant;
• 2 onion heads;
• 40 ml of oil;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Onion heads need to be cleaned, cut into medium-sized cubes, put in a frying pan with already heated oil, you can use any fat in the same amount. Fry for a couple of minutes.
2. Add minced meat, stir, cook with onions for about five minutes.
3. Eggplant cut into cubes up to 1.5 centimeters. If necessary, the vegetable is pre-soaked, washed, squeezed out.
4. Add the eggplant to the pan, stir, cover and cook under the lid until the eggplant is ready. Stir occasionally so that the onion does not burn.
5. Three minutes before the end of frying, you need to salt and pepper, you can add a pinch of sugar, which will make the taste of the dish richer.
Eggplant with minced meat in a frying pan in batter
Recipe for a warm eggplant appetizer in a pan with minced meat. The dish is prepared simply, it looks quite interesting, it turns out delicious.
Ingredients
• 2-3 eggplant;
• 300 g of any stuffing;
• 2 eggs;
• spices;
• 3 tablespoons of flour;
• butter;
• onion head, garlic as desired.
Cooking
1. Peel the eggplant, cut into circles half a centimeter, pour the pieces with salt and leave for a quarter of an hour.
2. While bitterness comes out of vegetables, prepare minced meat from twisted meat and chopped onion, garlic, put everything to taste, but there should not be a lot of additives. Season it all with spices, mix well.
3. For batter, mix the eggs with salt, beat until foam, add flour and just stir. The dough should not turn out thick.
4. Rinse the mugs of eggplant, squeeze out excess water.
5. On each eggplant, put some minced meat, make a thin layer and squeeze them together. Similarly combine the whole filling with all the slices of the vegetable.
6. Send the pan to the fire, pour a layer of oil in 1 cm, warm.
7. Take alternately mugs of eggplant with minced meat, dip in batter and fry over medium heat on both sides.
8. Serve the appetizer hot or cold.
Stewed eggplant with minced meat in a pan (in sour cream)
A variant of stewed eggplant with minced meat, which is easily cooked in a skillet. You can fry the little blue pieces in advance, then it will take much less time to prepare the dish.
Ingredients
• 400 g of minced meat;
• 2-3 eggplant;
• 2 onion heads;
• 150 g sour cream;
• butter;
• greens, seasonings.
Cooking
1. Cut the eggplant in circles half a centimeter, fry in a frying pan on both sides, make maximum heat. Transfer to a bowl.
2. Season the sour cream with spices, you can add soy sauce, pepper, a little ketchup. The filling will turn out even tastier.
3. Add chopped onions to the pan.
4. After two minutes, transfer the minced meat to it, stir, cook until half cooked, season with spices, garlic, pepper, do not forget to salt.
5. Put half the minced meat in a bowl. Smooth the rest so that the layer is even.
6. Put half the fried eggplant circles on top of the minced meat. Lubricate with sour cream.
7. Now return the minced meat to the pan, add the remaining sour cream.
8. Cover, cook over low heat for about fifteen minutes.
9. Put the stew on plates so as not to disturb the layers.
Eggplant cutlets with minced meat in a pan
A variant of very juicy and economical eggplant cutlets with minced meat in a pan. If desired, a little rice can be added to the cutlet mass, then the meatballs will be obtained.
Ingredients
• 400 g of minced meat;
• onion head;
• 1 large eggplant;
• 1 egg;
• 1 carrot;
• 200 ml sour cream;
• oil, spices, a little greens;
• deboning flour.
Cooking
1. Grate finely one peeled carrot, chop the onion, put it all in a frying pan with a couple of tablespoons of any fat, lightly fry.
2. Add eggplant, cut into small cubes, add heat. Sauté the vegetables for another two minutes. Cool.
3. Mix the vegetable passerovka with minced meat.
4. Add the egg, spices, mix the cutlet mass thoroughly. Divide into balls of 50-70 grams, blind round cutlets, roll in flour.
5. Fry the balls in a pan on both sides.
6. Mix sour cream with 150 ml of water, season the gravy with salt, add to the pan to the patties.
7. Cover the dish with a lid, simmer until ready, about a quarter of an hour.
8. At the end, sprinkle eggplant cutlets with herbs, add laurel under the lid, let it brew.
Omelet with eggplant, minced meat in a pan
A variant of a satisfying omelet for those who are tired of the standard taste of eggs. Dishes are obtained quite a lot, in 3 full portions.
Ingredients
• 4 eggs;
• 1 large eggplant;
• 40 g butter;
• 50 ml of milk;
• 1 onion head;
• 100-150 g of minced meat;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Put a piece of butter in a frying pan. If desired, you can take any other. Melt.
2. Add chopped onion, followed by minced meat. Fry until the meat is lightened, mix well.
3. Add eggplant sliced into thin strips. Bring to readiness, lightly brown, salt.
4. Mix the eggs with milk, salt, beat with a whisk or a fork. You can add any seasoning, for example, a mixture for cooking meat, vegetables.
5. Pour the omelet prepared in the pan into the pan. Cover.
6. Bring to readiness over low heat, sprinkle with plenty of herbs when serving.
Stewed eggplant with minced meat in a pan (with tomatoes)
Another recipe for eggplant stew with minced meat in a skillet. It can also be cooked in a saucepan or in a cauldron.
Ingredients
• 700 g eggplant;
• 400 g of minced meat;
• 400 g of fresh tomatoes;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 4 tablespoons of oil;
• salt, greens.
Cooking
1. Peel the eggplant, cut into cubes per centimeter, sprinkle with salt, stir and put in a colander. Leave to drain the bitter juice.
2. Put the minced meat in a frying pan with oil and, stirring, fry for about five minutes.
3. Add squeezed eggplant slices. Cook the dish without a lid for ten minutes.
4. During this time, you need to make incisions on the tomatoes, bathe the tomatoes in boiling water and cool them down, remove the skin. Grind in a blender or just chop finely.
5. The cloves of garlic also need to be chopped, mixed with tomato.
6. Add pepper to the sauce, salt is not needed yet, as there is a lot of salt in eggplant.
7. Pour the tomato sauce to the minced meat, stir, cover and simmer for a quarter of an hour.
8. Open, stir again, try the salt, if necessary, add more. Season with herbs, cover and turn off. Allow the stewed eggplant to brew before serving.
Eggplant sauté with minced meat in a pan
A simplified version of sauté, which is cooked in a pan and with minced beef. If necessary, boldly replace mayonnaise with sour cream. The dish will not be worse from this.
Ingredients
• 400 g ground beef;
• 3 eggplants;
• 2 onion heads;
• 1 carrot;
• 100 g of cheese;
• oil, spices;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• 3 tomatoes.
Cooking
1. Salt the eggplant cut into plates, squeeze and fry in vegetable oil in ten minutes.
2. Chop the onions and carrots into strips, put them in a frying pan separately, fry the park for minutes, add the minced meat and bring it almost ready.
3. At the bottom of the pan, put a layer of fried eggplant, then half the chopped tomatoes, brush with half mayonnaise (sour cream).
4. Put the remaining fried minced meat on the tomatoes and again the tomatoes, the layers need to be added with salt, you can sprinkle with Provencal or any other spices.
5. Mesh the leftover mayonnaise.
6. Pour 0.3 cups of any broth or water from the side.
7. Put the pan on a small fire, simmer for 15 minutes under the lid, then open, sprinkle with cheese, wait until it melts and you're done!
Eggplant with minced meat in a pan - useful tips and tricks
• The older and larger the eggplant, the worse it will taste. As the fruits grow, harmful corned beef accumulates in the fruits, which gives bitterness. For tasty and healthy dishes you need to choose young, small copies.
• Garlic - the main partner of eggplant. They are wonderful friends in any dish. If you don't want to smell garlic, add it in the middle of cooking. If you want the dish to be fragrant with garlic aroma and pungency, then put the chopped cloves at the very end.
• Eggplant peel helps maintain the shape of the pieces. If you do not want to turn the dish into porridge, then it is better to leave it. An exception is old vegetables with a hard skin.
• To reduce the calorie content of the dish, you can replace minced meat with twisted chicken or turkey. In this case, the eggplant can be fried in a skillet with a non-stick coating.
