Dear admirers of the national cuisine of the peoples of the world and gentlemen culinary experimenters! Our today's master class is for you. Let's turn to the origins of Georgian cuisine, prepare a wonderful dish - Georgian eggplant. You will certainly like the appetizer, because it is prepared in an interesting way and it turns out to be just incomparable at the exit - tender and spicy at the same time.
Vegetable dishes of Georgian cuisine are mostly salad or appetizer. Moreover, vegetables can be eaten raw, but more often boiled, fried or baked on a fire. The peculiarity of eggplant dishes lies in the sharpness of taste, supplemented with garlic, fragrant spices, nuts and herbs. True, many years ago, Georgian chefs used seasonings to a minimum to prepare their spicy snacks, being content with garlic, hot peppers, lots of greens and walnuts. It is walnuts that are revered in Georgia above all others. Our eggplants with Georgian walnuts will be initially cooked in the oven by baking, and then transformed into a snack. Bulgarian pepper (sweet and bitter) is used as an additional ingredient.
To prepare this tasty and healthy salad, we need: bell pepper, blue onion, eggplant, garlic, walnuts, parsley and any other herbs to taste.
All the vegetables that we will bake should be washed and wiped dry. This applies to eggplant and bell pepper, by the way, the latter also needs to be pitted.
Bake vegetables at a temperature of 220 degrees. The first 15 minutes, the baking sheet should be covered with foil, and then remove it and continue cooking the same amount open.
Now that the vegetables are baked, they must be cooled and peeled, and then offered in a bowl or salad bowl.
We clean and finely chop the greens chosen for the salad, we do the same with garlic.
Mix greens and garlic with baked vegetables.
Cut the blue onion in half and chop it in your favorite way, we chose half rings.
We also combine chopped onions with baked vegetables, salt, add hot pepper and mix the salad with our hands. It is important that the ingredients do not turn into porridge.
Add chopped walnuts to the salad nuts. Nuts can either be ground into crumbs or chopped into medium-sized pieces.
For serving it is better to use bowls. Before serving, you should definitely sprinkle the salad with fresh and fragrant chopped herbs, and if you like it, also mayonnaise.
To the table!
Variations of the dish
Roasted vegetables are a great source of fiber and vitamins. In the process of baking, we completely abandoned the use of fats and salt. What made our dish especially useful. Moreover, eggplants and peppers were cooked directly in the peel and thus retained all the vitamins and juices inside the pulp. Only moisture completely unnecessary for the salad stood out.
Red onion is an ideal antibacterial and antiviral agent, as well as an undeniable source of folic acid, potassium, and the most important vitamin C for the body. Walnuts are the tree of life. You must have heard this saying more than once. A huge complex of vitamins and minerals, as well as fiber, essential oils and organic acids, and a healthy body cannot do without it. Only 20-30 grams of peeled nuts per day and your body will work like clockwork.
In conclusion, I would like to note that Georgian eggplant, the recipe with a photo presented in our HozOboz review, is made with all love for Georgian cuisine. But if suddenly it seems to you that the dish lacks spices and spiciness, add them to your liking. Eggplants "pull out your eyes" - more for an amateur! You and I need to save our stomachs for new and interesting culinary feats, and on our site there are many recipes from Georgian cuisine that deserve attention no less than this.