Eggplant with minced meat - a win-win combination!
Dishes from these two ingredients are nourishing, tasty, cooked simply, eaten quickly. They don’t even need an oven, everything is great in the pan.
Eggplant with minced meat in a pan - general principles of cooking
Pre-processing of eggplants is cutting and removing bitterness. Usually the prepared pieces are poured with salted water or simply sprinkled with dry salt. Leave for 15-30 minutes, then just wring out. Wash with cold water and squeeze.
Eggplant and ground beef dishes 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 they add sauce, tomato juice or another sauce, cover and stew until ready.
Fried eggplants with minced meat in a pan
The recipe for simple eggplant and minced meat in a skillet. It can be full and independent or served with some side dish. Use minced meat from any meat, you can even very fat.
Ingredients
• 400 g minced meat;
• 3-4 eggplants;
• 2 onions;
• 40 ml of oil;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Onion heads need to be cleaned, cut into cubes of medium size, put in a frying pan with already heated oil, you can use any fat in the same amount. Cook for a couple of minutes.
2. Add minced meat, stir, cook with onion for about five minutes.
3. Eggplants are cut into cubes up to 1.5 centimeters. If necessary, the vegetable is pre-soaked, washed, pressed.
4. Add the eggplants to the pan, stir, cover and cook the eggplant under the lid until done. Stir occasionally to prevent the onions from burning.
5. Minutes for three to the end of frying need 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 pan in a batter
The recipe for warm eggplant appetizers in a pan with minced meat. The dish is easy to prepare, it looks quite interesting, it turns out delicious.
Ingredients
• 2-3 eggplants;
• 300 g of any stuffing;
• 2 eggs;
• spices;
• 3 tablespoons flour;
• butter;
• onion, garlic optional.
Cooking
1. Peel the eggplants, cut into half-centimeters, pour the salt into pieces and leave for a quarter of an hour.
2. While bitterness comes out of vegetables, make minced meat from twisted meat and minced onions, garlic, put everything to taste, but there shouldn't be a lot of additives. Season all this with spices, mix well.
3. For batter, mix the eggs with salt, whisk until frothy, add flour and just stir. The dough should not be thick.
4. Rinse the eggplant mugs, squeeze out excess water.
5. On each eggplant, put a little stuffing, make a thin layer and press them together. Similarly, combine all the stuffing with all the pieces of vegetable.
6. Send the pan to the fire, pour a layer of oil in 1 cm, heat.
7. Take alternately eggplant muffins with minced meat, dip them in batter and fry over moderate heat on both sides.
8. Serve hot or cold.
Stewed eggplants with minced meat in a pan (in sour cream)
Option stewed eggplants with minced meat, which are easily cooked in a skillet. You can fry the blue pieces in advance, then it will take much less time to prepare the dishes.
Ingredients
• 400 g minced meat;
• 2-3 eggplants;
• 2 onions;
• 150 g sour cream;
• butter;
• greens, seasonings.
Cooking
1. Cut the aubergines into half centimeters, fry in a griddle on both sides, make maximum fire. Transfer to bowl.
2. Season sour cream with spices, you can add soy sauce, pepper, a little ketchup. Fill get even more delicious.
3. Add chopped onion to the pan.
4. After two minutes, transfer to it the minced meat, stir, cook until half cooked, season with spices, garlic, pepper, do not forget to salt. 5. Place half the minced meat in a bowl. Align the rest to make the layer even.
6. Spread half the fried eggplant circles on top of the minced meat. Smear sour cream.
7. Now return the mince to the pan, add the remaining sour cream.
8. Cover with a lid, cook on low heat for about fifteen minutes.
9. Put the stew in a plate so as not to disturb the layers.
Eggplant patties with minced meat in a pan
The option is very juicy and economical eggplant patties with minced meat in a frying pan. Optionally, you can add a little rice in the mass of cutlet, then get meatballs.
Ingredients
• 400 g minced meat;
• onion head;
• 1 large eggplant;
• 1 egg;
• 1 carrot;
• 200 ml sour cream;
• oil, spices, some greens;
• flour for boning.
Cooking
1. Grate finely peeled carrots, chop the onion, put it all into a griddle with a pair of spoons of any fat, fry slightly.
2. Add the eggplant, cut into small cubes, add fire. Fry the vegetables for about two minutes. Cool it down.
3. Mix the vegetable sautéer with minced meat.
4. Add egg, spices, stir the cutlet mass thoroughly. Divide into balls 50-70 grams, blind round patties, roll in flour.
5. Fry the balls in the pan on both sides.
6. Mix the sour cream with 150 ml of water, season with salt sauce, add to the pan to the meatballs.
7. Cover the pot with a lid, simmer the dish until ready, about a quarter of an hour.
8. At the end, sprinkle the eggplant patties with greens, add laurel under the cover, let it brew.
Omelet with eggplants, minced meat in a pan
The option of a hearty omelet for those who are tired of the standard taste of eggs. The dishes are quite a lot, for 3 full servings.
Ingredients
• 4 eggs;
• 1 large eggplant;
• 40 g butter;
• 50 ml of milk;
• 1 onion;
• 100-150 g of minced meat;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Put a piece of butter in the pan. If you wish, you can take any other. Melt.
2. Add chopped onion, followed by minced meat. Fry until bleaching meat, mix well. 3. Add chopped eggplants. Bring to readiness, lightly browned, add.
4. Mix eggs with milk, salt, whisk or whisk or fork. You can add any seasoning, for example, a mixture for cooking meat, vegetables.
5. Pour the omelet prepared in the pan products. Cover with a lid.
6. Bring to readiness over low heat, sprinkle with greens when serving.
Stewed eggplants with minced meat in a pan (with tomatoes)
Another recipe for eggplant stew with minced meat in a griddle. It can also be cooked in a saucepan or in a cauldron.
Ingredients
• 700 g of eggplants;
• 400 g minced meat;
• 400 g fresh tomatoes;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 4 spoons of butter;
• salt, greens.
Cooking
1. Clean the eggplants, cut into cubes by centimeter, sprinkle with salt, stir and place in a colander. Leave to drain bitter juice.
2. Put the minced meat in the pan with oil and, stirring, fry for about five minutes.
3. Add the pressed eggplant pieces. Cook the dish without a lid for ten minutes.
4. During this time, you need to make cuts on tomatoes, bathe tomatoes in boiling water and cool sharply, remove the skin. Grind in a blender or simply chop finely.
5. Garlic cloves also need to chop, mix with tomato.
6. Add pepper to the sauce, salt is not yet necessary, as there is a lot of salt in eggplants.
7. Pour tomato sauce over minced meat, stir, cover and simmer for a quarter of an hour.
8. Open, stir again, try on salt, if necessary, add more. Season with greens, cover and turn off. Before serving, let the stewed eggplant infuse.
Sauteed eggplants with minced meat in a pan
A simplified version of a sauté that is cooked in a skillet and with minced beef. If necessary, then mayonnaise boldly replace sour cream. Worse dish from this will not be.
Ingredients
• 400 g minced beef;
• 3 eggplants;
• 2 onions;
• 1 carrot;
• 100 grams of cheese;
• oil, spices;
• 100 g of mayonnaise;
• 3 tomatoes.
Cooking
1. Salt the sliced eggplants, squeeze out and fry in vegetable oil in ten minutes. 2. Onions and carrots chop straws, put them in the pan separately, fry the park for minutes, add the minced meat and bring it almost to readiness.
3. At the bottom of the pan lay a layer of roasted eggplants, then half of the chopped tomatoes, grease with half of mayonnaise (sour cream).
4. Put the rest of roasted minced meat on the tomatoes and again the tomatoes, the layers need to be salted, you can sprinkle with Provencal or any other spices.
5. Make a mesh from the remnants of mayonnaise.
6. Pour sideways 0.3 cups of any broth or water.
7. Put the pan on a small fire, simmer under the lid for 15 minutes, then open, sprinkle with cheese, wait until it is melted and ready!
Eggplant with minced meat in a pan - useful tips and tricks
• The older and larger the eggplant, the worse it will taste. As it grows in the fruit accumulates harmful corned beef, which gives bitterness. For tasty and healthy dishes you need to choose young, small copies.
• Garlic - the main partner of eggplant. They are wonderfully friendly in any dish. If you do not want to smell garlic, then add it in the middle of cooking. If you want the dish to be fragrant with garlic aroma and sharpness, then lay the sliced cloves at the very end.
• The skin on eggplants helps to keep the shape of the pieces. If you do not want to turn the dish into porridge, then it is better to leave it. The exception is old vegetables with stiff skins.
• To reduce the calorie content of the dish, you can replace the minced meat with a twisted chicken fillet or turkey. In this case, eggplants can be fried in a frying pan with a non-stick coating.
