Eggplant rolls - snack-improvisation

Despite the fact that the eggplant in appearance resemble little potatoes, these two plants are close relatives, since they belong to the family of Solanaceae. Only potatoes eat root vegetables, and eggplants have fruits.

Eggplant is a very useful vegetable. It contains a lot of necessary trace elements, including magnesium, calcium, phosphorus, iron. Present in the fruits of eggplant and vitamins B, C and PP.

There are many recipes for eggplant cooking . But that the culinary experiments were successful, you need to learn how to choose the right vegetables. Only young fruits are suitable for food, and overgrown, hard eggplants with coarse seeds should not be cooked. Not only that such fruits are not too appetizing, so they also contain a large amount of corned beef - a poisonous substance with a bitter taste.

Before cooking, cut into small plates or circles of eggplant, it is recommended that you coolly add salt and let them lie down for about twenty minutes. With this treatment, the eggplant comes out bitter, you just need not forget to rinse it properly from the salt before cooking.

Aubergines are often prepared snacks, including the famous vegetable caviar. Another option for snacks from this vegetable is aubergine rolls. This appetizer is suitable for every day, and for a festive table.

Recipes telling how you can prepare eggplant rolls, there are many. But to study all the proposed options is not necessary, it is enough to know how to prepare the basis of the dish, in order to learn how to make such a delicious snack.

Eggplants for cooking rolls, as a rule, do not clean. They are simply well washed. Trim the stalk and cut into plates along the vegetable. The thickness of each plate should be about half a centimeter. Then cut the eggplant should be salted, as described above.

After the juice is separated, the plates should be rinsed, well dried, using a paper towel, and fry. Here are already possible options. In some recipes, eggplants are recommended to fry just the way, in others - it is advised to wrap each slice in flour. There is an option where each plate is first dipped in a whipped egg, then breaded in flour and, only after that, sent to a skillet. Here, as they say, it's a matter of taste. You can try all the options and choose the one that you like the most. The only remark, if you fry the plates, dipping them in the egg, then you need to form the eggplant rolls immediately after removing the plate from the pan, because in the cold form the rolls will curl up poorly.

So, our foundation is ready. What will the eggplant rolls do with? What foods can I use as a filling? And here also the open space for imagination begins, as it is simply impossible to list all the options for the filling for this dish.

For example, the simplest version is fried vegetables (onions, Bulgarian pepper, carrots) with tomato and garlic. You can cook a more satisfying snack - eggplant with meat. To do this, as a filling used toasted and seasoned to taste minced meat. You can use as a stuffing a slice of ham or sausage.

And how do you like the appetizer with the original name "tawny tongue"? In this case, a plate of eggplant is smeared with a sauce made from a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic, and a slice of tomato is placed inside the roll. An exquisite combination of flavors is obtained if you cook eggplants with mushrooms. To prepare the mushroom filling you need to extinguish the mushrooms in oil.

In addition to these options, you can come up with many more delicious fillings for rolls. For example, cheese with garlic and mayonnaise, boiled egg with green onions, stewed cabbage with mushrooms and tomatoes, walnuts. Total and do not list! Probably, every cook has his own special filling for eggplant rolls. So it is necessary to show imagination, practice a little and your friends will certainly appreciate your efforts when you prepare for them such an exquisite treat.