Eggplant is a tasty and healthy vegetable that contains many vitamins and minerals. The content of potassium is especially high in them, which is necessary for the work of the heart. And salted eggplants will add variety to the winter menu and go well with boiled potatoes.
It is necessary
- - eggplant;
- - garlic;
- - black peppercorns;
- - ground black pepper;
- - greens;
- - Bay leaf;
- - an enameled pan;
- - glass 3-liter jars.
Instructions
Step 1
The number of ingredients in this recipe is not intentionally indicated, so that everyone can add spices to their liking, independently adjusting the pungency and spice of pickling. The eggplants should be washed thoroughly and the tails should be cut off. Remove damaged parts of vegetables if necessary.
Step 2
We make a strong brine, pour the prepared vegetables and bring to a boil in an enamel saucepan. The lid of the pot must be pressed down with a load so that the eggplants that pop up during the boil cannot knock it over. It is impossible to determine the exact time of cooking vegetables, it depends on the variety, the degree of their maturity and size. You need to cook until soft, after which we remove the eggplants from the brine, which we no longer need, and refrigerate.
Step 3
We cut the chilled vegetables along in the direction from the wide end, not completely, but leaving a few whole centimeters at the base. We open the incised eggplants and place them under oppression on an inclined plane for five hours to squeeze out the juice. If this is not done, salty vegetables can taste bitter.
Step 4
After the juice has drained, sprinkle the inner surface of the eggplant with ground pepper, chopped garlic and herbs. We put the halves together and fasten them to each other with threads. Then we put the vegetables tightly in three-liter jars or a large enamel pan, that is, in the dishes in which they will be stored in the future.
Step 5
Bring the new brine with bay leaf and allspice to a boil and cool. Pour vegetables with chilled brine. We close the jars with plastic lids, and the pan with a clean cloth, on top of which we place the oppression.
