How To Fry Eggplant

Author: Ivan Red Jr. Time for reading: ~2 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022

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Eggplants are quite popular among culinary specialists. They are baked, fried, stewed, caviar is cooked, added to the first and second courses, snacks. The fried eggplants are especially tasty.

How to fry eggplant in a skillet

Eggplants are quite popular among culinary specialists. They are baked, fried, stewed, caviar is cooked, added to the first and second courses, snacks. The fried eggplants are especially tasty. They are fried in cubes, circles, tongues, with skin and without skin, in batter and without batter, depending on how you want to use them later.

The main questions that arise when choosing a recipe for fried eggplants are: “Is it true that pre-salting eggplants allows you to get rid of bitterness, and the eggplants themselves after that, when frying, will absorb less sunflower oil?”. And also many are interested in whether it is worth removing the skin before frying eggplant ...

If the issue with the skin is very controversial: some people prefer to remove it, while others like to fry eggplant with the skin. The question is: is it worth salting eggplant slices before frying, it does not cause controversy. Pieces pre-treated with salt really stop bitter (if they were bitter before, which very much depends on the variety) and absorb less oil when frying.

Eggplant slices can be salted in two ways:

- sprinkle them with salt, and after 15-20 minutes peel off this salt with the resulting juice;

- soak eggplant slices in salted water for 20-30 minutes, and then squeeze well.

Recipes with blue eggplant

Option 1

without batter

Option 2

Breaded

Ingredients:

blue eggplant
Water
Refined sunflower oil
Salt

We will need:

Bowl
Knife
Pan
Board kitchen

How to fry eggplant without batter step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need a frying pan, a bowl, a knife, a kitchen board, salt, eggplant, water, sunflower oil.

Step 2

Wash 2 eggplants, peel, cut into 5 mm thick circles.

Step 3

Soak prepared eggplant for 30 minutes in salted (1 tsp) cold water (500 ml).

Step 4

Squeeze the eggplant and combine with a small amount of sunflower oil (30 ml). Mix well.

Step 5

Fry eggplant slices for 5-7 minutes in a hot pan.

Step 6

Fry the slices in the same way on the other side.

Step 7

Place cooked eggplants on paper towels to soak up excess oil.

Step 8

Fried eggplant is ready.

Ingredients:

blue eggplant
Wheat flour
Sour cream
Salt
Dill dry
chicken eggs

We will need:

Knife
Board kitchen
Pan
Bowl

How to fry eggplant in batter step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

For work, we need 1 eggplant, 1 egg, 2 tablespoons flour, 2 tablespoons sour cream, salt (0.3 tsp), dry dill (0.2 tsp), sunflower oil (20 ml), knife, kitchen board, bowl, frying pan.

Step 2

Wash eggplant, peel, cut into 5 mm thick circles.

Step 3

Soak for 30 minutes in salted water.

Step 4

In the meantime, prepare the batter: combine the egg, sour cream, flour. Add salt and dried dill to taste.

Step 5

Squeeze the prepared eggplant mugs well. Dip each one into the batter.

Step 6

Fry in a hot pan with sunflower oil for 5-6 minutes (low-medium heat).