Eggplant and garlic are an inseparable pair with which cheese is ideally combined. These ingredients can make amazing dishes.
In order not to spend much time, it is convenient to use the oven.
Oven eggplant with cheese and garlic - general cooking principles
Do you need to clean the eggplant - you decide. A hard skin of ripe eggplant will ruin the dish. It will not soften during cooking, it will become even tougher.
Also in mature fruits, hard seeds, bitterness. The taste of such vegetables is much lower. Therefore, for the preparation of baked dishes, it is advisable to use young eggplant with a thin skin.
To make bitterness come out of the fruit, cut the vegetables into pieces, soak in salt water. But not all vegetables require it. You can meet varieties without bitterness.
What eggplant is baked with:
• Cheese. Mainly used solid varieties that melt well in the oven.
• Tomatoes, peppers and other vegetables. Use fresh.
• Sour cream, mayonnaise. Used for greasing vegetables, as sauces and fillings.
• Garlic. Present in almost all eggplant and cheese dishes. Perfect refueling.
All ingredients are cut, laid out on a baking sheet in a certain sequence, smeared with sauces, sprinkled with cheese.
The exact way to assemble the dish depends on the recipe.
Eggplant is baked in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees.
Eggplant with cheese and garlic in the oven (halves)
For such eggplant with cheese and garlic in the oven, it is better to use small vegetables.
Ingredients
• 3 eggplants (or 4 small);
• 100 g of Russian cheese;
• 200 ml sour cream;
• 1 bunch of greenery;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• pepper, salt.
Cooking
1. From the eggplant you need to remove the tips, cut the fruits lengthwise into two halves.
2. Now densely sprinkle the place of slices with salt, put in a bowl, fill with cold water, put oppression on top. Soak for half an hour.
3. During this time, prepare the sauce with sour cream and pepper, add chopped fresh herbs, garlic.
4. Cheese must be cut into 6 plates according to the number of halves or grated coarsely.
5. Remove the eggplant from the water, rinse, wring out. In each half with a knife, make a small indentation for the cheese.
6. Arrange the cheese, arrange the halves in a greased form.
7. Lubricate liberally with sauce, place at 210 ° C in the oven. Halves of small eggplant will be baked for about half an hour. Medium vegetables will require 40-45 minutes. Readiness is determined by the softness of the eggplant.
Eggplant with cheese and garlic in the oven (circles)
A recipe for a quick and simple oven snack. If the eggplant is bitter, then be sure to soak it. If the vegetables are not bitter, then you can immediately collect the dish on a baking sheet.
Ingredients
• 4 eggplants;
• 3 tablespoons of oil, it is better to take olive;
• 170 g of cheese;
• 100 g mayonnaise;
• 5-6 branches of dill;
• 4 cloves of garlic.
Cooking
1. Pour oil on a baking sheet, the layer should not be very thin. Turn on the oven to bask at 210 ° C.
2. Cut the eggplant in circles half a centimeter. If bitter, sprinkle with salt, let stand, then squeeze.
3. Place the mugs evenly on the baking sheet.
4. Grind the cheese with garlic, herbs, pepper and season with mayonnaise. Stir the filling thoroughly.
5. Smear all the eggplant circles.
6. Put in the oven. Bring the appetizer to the ready. You can use such eggplants both in cold and in warm form.
Oven eggplant with cheese, tomatoes and garlic
A variant of a juicy eggplant appetizer with fresh tomatoes. So that the turrets do not fall apart, everything worked out, you need to do everything according to the rules.
Ingredients
• 2-3 tomatoes;
• 2 eggplants;
• 200 g of cheese;
• 3 tablespoons sour cream;
• garlic, herbs;
• spices to your taste.
Cooking
1. If soaking is required, do it in advance, half an hour before assembling the dish. Warm the oven for 200.
2. Cut the vegetables into circles. Eggplant approximately four millimeters, tomatoes a little thinner.
3. Grate the cheese coarsely or finely, no difference. Add to it sour cream, garlic, any seasonings.
4. First place the eggplant mugs on the greased baking sheet.
5. To make all layers merge together, apply a little cheese mass on each piece, cover with a tomato.
6. Put some cheese on the tomato, cover with eggplant.
7. Collect all the turrets in such a way, spread the rest of the cheese mass on top.
8. Put in the oven, bake for about 20 minutes.
Oven eggplant fan with cheese and garlic in the oven
A variant of not only delicious, but also a spectacular snack. It is better to use small tomatoes for her so that the circles fit easily on the eggplant strip. From one fan, 2 small servings are obtained.
Ingredients
• 1 large eggplant;
• 3 small tomatoes;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• 80 g of cheese;
• 1 spoon of sour cream;
• a pinch of basil.
Cooking
1. Rinse the eggplant. With a sharp and long knife, cut along thin strips, but without cutting to the base. All pieces must stick together.
2. Sprinkle with salt all strips of vegetable. After 15 minutes, rinse, wring.
3. Cut the tomato into thin circles, and the cheese into small slices.
4. Make the sauce of sour cream with garlic and basil.
5. Pour a spoonful of oil into a low-rim pan. If several fans are being prepared, then you can bake them immediately on a baking sheet.
6. Lubricate the eggplant strips with sour cream sauce on all sides. Transfer the vegetable to the prepared form, immediately straighten the links of the fan.
7. Place the tomatoes and cheese slices in the eggplant. It is not necessary to cover the tomatoes; you can stack the cheese between the circles. Some housewives prefer to use grated product and sprinkle the filling on top. Do as you like.
8. Send for baking. The cooking temperature of the fan is about 200 degrees.
Oven eggplant with cheese, pepper and garlic
A variant of mouth-watering eggplant, with a special taste of Bulgarian pepper. Choose a ripe, fleshy vegetable. Technology with pre-frying vegetables.
Ingredients
• 2 eggplants;
• 1 large pepper (or 2 small vegetables);
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• a little dill;
• a pinch of pepper;
• 250 g of cheese;
• 100 g of mayonnaise (or sour cream);
• oil grows.
Cooking
1. Cut the eggplant into long strips. Soak in salted water, wipe off.
2. Fry the prepared strips in a pan, but only on one side.
3. Grease a baking sheet, lay out the pieces with the wet side down. It will be fried during baking.
4. Grate the cheese. Chop the garlic and dill. You can use dry greens in this recipe. Mix everything together, add mayonnaise.
5. Dice the bell pepper, add to the cheese mass, stir well.
6. Put the filling on prepared strips that are already on the baking sheet.
7. Smudge the layers as evenly as possible.
8. Such eggplants are cooked in the oven for 10-12 minutes. Set the temperature for them at least 210 degrees.
Oven eggplant with cheese and garlic on a potato
A recipe for a complete meal that can be made for lunch or dinner. 5 servings will come out of this amount of ingredients. If necessary, you can always increase or decrease the number of products.
Ingredients
• 0.7 kg of potatoes;
• 0.2 kg of onions;
• 3 eggplants;
• 3 cloves of garlic;
• 250 ml sour cream;
• 250 g of cheese;
• 2 tomatoes.
Cooking
1. Take care of the eggplant right away. Cut the vegetable into circles of arbitrary thickness. Sprinkle with salt, set aside.
2. Peel the potatoes, cut into slices. The onion also needs to be cleaned, cut into half rings. Mix potatoes with onions, add to them one chopped clove of garlic, 100 g sour cream, salt. You can put spices for potatoes. Stir well, put in a smeared baking dish or on a baking sheet.
3. Combine the remaining sour cream with grated cheese and two cloves of garlic. You can season with any spices, but you do not need to salt.
4. Rinse the eggplant. Let the liquid drain out, you can squeeze it or wipe it with a towel.
5. Place eggplant circles on top of the potatoes. If they are cut thin and do not fit, you can make an overlap.
6. Cut the tomatoes too, you do not need to put a lot of them. Spread on top.
7. Cover the dish with cheese mixture, try to make an even layer.
8. Place 180 degrees in the oven. Bring the potatoes ready. On average, it will take from 40 to 50 minutes.
Oven eggplant with cheese, chicken and garlic
A variant of a wonderful chicken fillet dish. It takes only half an hour. Instead of chicken, you can use turkey fillet.
Ingredients
• 500 g fillet;
• 2 eggplants;
• 120 g of cheese;
• 1 clove of garlic;
• spices for poultry;
• 4 tablespoons sour cream.
Cooking
1. Soak the eggplant circles, remove the water.
2. Cut the chicken fillet into slices one centimeter. Beat off a little with a hammer, grease with sour cream and spices, you can immediately put it on a baking sheet.
3. Combine the rest of sour cream with chopped garlic clove, add spices if desired. Pour into the eggplant. Stir well with your hands so that each piece is covered with sauce.
4. Arrange the circles on the chicken fillet. Distribute everything.
5. Sprinkle with grated cheese, put in the oven.
6. Baked fillet with eggplant for 25-30 minutes, but look at the color of the cheese crust. Temperature 180.
Eggplant with cheese and garlic in the oven - useful tips and tricks
• To increase the usefulness of a dish, mayonnaise in recipes can be replaced with sour cream. If you need to reduce calories, then use low-fat products. By the way, you can make sour cream at home.
• Garlic in dishes can be used not only fresh, but also dry. In this case, the product will require much less.
• Eggplant soak a lot of water when soaked. Therefore, they need to be squeezed well before laying on a baking sheet. You can also wipe the slices with napkins or paper towels.
