Eggplant dream
Eggplants are delicious vegetables, very common on summer table.
Deep fried, salad,stuffed,pickled ,they can take any form and fit with almost all ingredients.
One of the most tasteful ways to cook them is with a tomato and onion sauce at the oven.
Eggplant are bitter. Before start cooking them it is necessary to slice them into thick slices and put them into salted water for at about 1 hour.
Take medium sized eggplants.
for a dish that fit 4-5 portions you will need at about 4 eggplants
600 grams onions
500 grams tomato puree
2 tablespoons sugar
olive oil
5 pieces of garlic
a lot of fresh spearmint
salt and pepper
vegetable oil for frying
300 grams crushed feta cheese
start cooking the sauce
Cut onions into thick slices and cook them slowly with olive oil . Add garlic cut into small pieces and cook a little bit more.
Add tomato puree and a glass of water, add sugar, salt and pepper and let boil. Cook for about 15 minutes and add spearmint. sauce must not be thick
Now fry the eggplant into hot oil, after you put a lot of flour to cover them and put them again into water just before you put them to oil
By that oil cannot enter into the eggplants
Take the dish and put some of the sauce on the bottom, and put a layer of eggplants. Put some sauce and repeat.
Cover with the remaining sauce and put into the oven at 170 C
When the the sauce is thick and the liquids are gone, add feta cheese and let bake for another 5 minutes.
The result is wonderful . eggplants are extremely soft, sauce is covering them without liquids coming out of the food and the flavor is amazing
Many people which could not eat eggplant loved this dish and they still eat it.
Try it, it really worth to taste it.
Can be eaten cold as well and next day is better than before
