A delicious recipe for cooking eggplant with prunes for the winter and storage
Canned pickles with eggplants are a must on the winter menu. Various techniques are used to prepare a vegetable according to delicious recipes. Eggplant with prunes - we are studying the original recipe for the winter. The preservation of the fruit and vegetable mixture does not take long. The advantage of harvesting is that you can use both large and small eggplants, since the fruits are pre-cut into medium-sized bars.
Cooking features
Today it is difficult to surprise anyone with vegetables of an unusual shade. Eggplants are grown with blue-violet, white, yellow or even striped skin. For canning, dark purples are most often used, which are the most useful. In order for vegetables to retain maximum vitamins and minerals, it is not recommended to fry or cook them for a long time.
Pieces of eggplant will absorb less sunflower oil when frying if they are first greased with a little oil and mixed. Spread vegetables in a dry hot frying pan and fry for several minutes until half cooked, stirring constantly.
Ingredients for preparation
When choosing products for preservation, you need to take into account that vegetables must be fresh, without flaws, otherwise the preservation may deteriorate. The main points of the selection of ingredients:
- ripe fruits with shiny and smooth skin are used. Vegetables with wrinkled and dry skin are not suitable for preservation;
- soft brown spots on the fruit are a sign of spoilage. If the stalk is dry and brown, it means that the vegetable was picked a long time ago.
Prunes are an original winter conservation ingredient with many advantages. Sun-dried plums contain a rich set of vitamins, micro- and microelements, slow down the growth of bacteria, give the workpieces a spicy sweet and sour taste.
Food preparation
Many housewives preserve eggplants for the winter in different ways: salting, pickling, stuffing. Of particular interest are recipes that combine eggplant with prunes. In the process of cooking, a kind of bitterness appears in the vegetable. You can get rid of an unpleasant taste in different ways:
- the fruits are cut into pieces, slightly salted and immersed in water for 20 minutes. Then the workpiece is washed with clean water;
- whole eggplants are boiled for 2-4 minutes in salted water.
When canning, it is not necessary to remove seeds from the fruit or cut the skin. Usually the stem and tip are cut off. If the prunes are very dry, you can pre-soak them, so that later it would be convenient to cut them into pieces or wedges.
How to prepare eggplant with prunes for the winter
To prepare the blank according to the original recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- 3 kg each eggplant and red bell pepper;
- 2 pieces of hot pepper;
- 300 g of prunes;
- 70 gr. garlic.
To prepare the marinade, use:
- 3 tbsp sunflower oil;
- 2 glasses of water, 200 g of sugar;
- 200 ml vinegar;
- 3 tablespoons salt.
Preparation of the workpiece includes several stages:
- The pepper is cut into large cubes, salted, poured over with water and left for 20-25 minutes. Then washed.
- Eggplant bars are poured with oil, mixed and fried in a pan until half cooked.
- Sweet and bitter peppers, prunes, garlic are cut into thin strips.
- Salt and sugar are poured into water to prepare the marinade. The solution is heated, at the stage of boiling, vinegar is poured into a salty-sweet liquid.
Pour a mixture of peppers and prunes with marinade, mix everything, add eggplants. Boil the ingredients for 15 minutes, add chopped garlic and cook for another 15 minutes. The fruit and vegetable mixture is laid out tightly in previously sterilized jars.
Further storage of workpieces
Basic storage conditions for canned pasteurized eggplants: air temperature - 0-15 ° С, humidity - 75-80%. If the requirements are met, then the shelf life of conservation is one and a half to two years. A great way of storage is to arrange jars in the basement or pantry of a country house.
To prevent an increase in humidity, the balcony is periodically ventilated. If there is no balcony or it is not possible to equip storage places on it, preservation can be put in the refrigerator.
Canned eggplants according to any recipe will diversify the winter menu in an original way. Most often, housewives prepare caviar. However, there is no need to be afraid of experimentation and new tastes. Eggplant with prunes is a non-standard recipe in which the flavor combination of ingredients is manifested by spicy sweet and sour notes.
