How do you properly prepare and cook aubergines?
Ingredients: Two mediums sized onions. Two large cloves of garlic. Two to three medium sized aubergine (depending on how big a medium they are) 250g cup mushrooms One can of chopped tomatoes Sunflower oil Salt to taste, but quite a lot. Two or three table tablespoons of dhana-jeera (powdered coriander and cumin) Half a tsp of crushed red chili Half a tsp of turmeric Cooking: First we need to roast the aubergine. Chop off the green at the end, pierce the aubergine in various places with a fork, cover them in oil and stick them in the oven at roasting temperatures for 20-30 minutes. You’ll know they’re cooked when they feel completely soft through – poke them with a sharp knife. If they feel at all hard or dry inside then they’re not done yet. While those are roasting, do the usual with the onions. Chop them up finely and fry them in oil. Also add the garlic (crushed or chopped as you prefer). Add the salt at the beginning. After a few minutes, add all the spices except the turmeric and
you usually rub salt and soak it in water for about half an hour so that the aubergine’s bitterness comes out. You cut it according to your recipe, but the more surface is salted the better. Before adding your sauce you can also let it briefly boil in water and vinegar. You can find wonderful recipes with aubergine on the internet. It is supposed to be good to control blood preassure.
INGREDIENTS Serves 4 1/4 kg chopped onions 1/2 kg fresh tomatoes 2 garlic cloves 1 kg round aubergines salt pepper olive oil METHOD Sautee the onions in a frying pan. Clean, chop and mash the fresh tomatoes (use 2 cans of preserved chopped tomatoes instead). Mash the garlic cloves in a mortar. Mix the tomatoe mash with the garlic. Wash the aubergines. Slice them horizontally in slices of 1 1/2 cm width. Butter an orthogonal pan and place the aubergine slices. Boil the tomatoe mash with the onions for a while. Then, pour the tomatoe mixture into the aubergine slices. Preheat the oven in 200 degrees C and bake for 45 minutes.
