Eggplant as the main character edible 2014goda - options snacks

The coming year by the East calendar - this year the blue wooden horse, so it is important to present to New Year's table blue. One of the finest options to implement this idea - to prepare a variety of dishes with a "little blue", ie with eggplant.

When it comes to cooking various delicious dishes of eggplant - all very easy, because they make a wonderful snacks and main dishes are very tasty and delicious, loved by many. Rolls with garlic and cheese, stuffed eggplant, sharp little snacks - all of this, many made from eggplant regularly and with pleasure. But in the New Year, you want something very special, festive, elegant, is not it? It is about these New Year's dish of eggplant and we will tell.

Christmas recipe eggplants "Peacock Tail"

Need: eggplant, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives b / c, cheese, mayonnaise, flour, garlic, vegetable oil.

How to cook a festive appetizer "peacock's tail." Obliquely cut eggplant slices 1 cm thick oval, salt the folded into the container, put on top of the cargo and leave on 20 minutes. Then rinse with cold water eggplant, roll in flour and fry in butter until browning on both sides. On a fine grater rub cheese, peel and chop the garlic, connect them with mayonnaise and mix. Grease the hot eggplant with cheese mass, put on a platter in the form of a peacock's tail, on top of each slice of eggplant lay out in the same manner chopped cucumber, tomato and half polukruzhku olives.

This is a very simple snack is a very bright and beautiful to look at the New Year's table, and its taste is very delight all lovers of eggplants.

Christmas recipe eggplants "fan"

You will need: 100g of cheese, 80g of mayonnaise, 4 cloves of garlic and medium tomatoes, eggplant 2, 1 beam of green bell pepper and 4 tablespoons vegetable oil, pepper, salt.

How to cook a snack fan of eggplant. Cut each eggplant in half, half an incision in the shape of a fan, not cutting through, pour salt into the cuts, leave for half an hour, rinse with cold water eggplant. Circles chop the tomatoes, cubes - pepper, cheese - slices. For the sauce, chop the herbs and garlic, combine mayonnaise, pepper and salt and mix well. Lay eggplant, drag in the form of a fan, on a baking sheet, oiled, sandwiched between cuts tomatoes, cheese and pepper, pour the sauce on top and bake in a preheated 180 degree oven for half an hour.

Serve this appetizer can be both hot and cold.

Check out fan can be in several ways.

Both adults and children will enjoy the following variant design eggplants.

Christmas recipe eggplants "Caterpillar"

You will need: 200g of cheese, 3-4 cloves of garlic, 1-2 tomatoes, olives b / c, eggplant, lettuce, vegetable oil, mayonnaise.

How to cook eggplant appetizer in the form of a caterpillar. Slice the eggplant circles on both sides of their fry in butter. 150g cheese rub, add chopped garlic, mayonnaise, mix well. Cut the rest of the cheese and tomatoes circles. Cover the platter salad leaves, in the form of towers spread on each other circles of eggplant, cheese and tomatoes, then this turret gently overturn - will torso tracks. Make a muzzle out of the ground eggplant, olives caterpillar decorate, make eyes and antennae.

From these ingredients can be prepared and conventional towers of eggplant, which in beautifully decorated with greenery and, for example, mayonnaise or other sauce (perfect nutty), too, will look very impressive.

Or turrets can be done with other products.

Recipe carrot and eggplant towers

Need: 160ml vegetable oil, 4 eggplant, 3 garlic cloves, 2-3 carrots, 2 tomatoes, 1 onion, 1 bunch of dill, parsley, pepper, salt, mayonnaise.

How to cook a Christmas snack towers of eggplant. Slice the eggplant circles, fry half the oil. Rub on a coarse grater carrots, chop the garlic and onion. Scald the tomatoes, remove the peel, chop. Fry the onion and carrot and garlic in the remaining oil, and pepper and salt, add the chopped dill and tomatoes and simmer for 15 minutes. Spread eggplant circles, alternating with the prepared stuffing, three layers. Drizzle snack thin stream of mayonnaise, decorate with greenery.

If you simply want to decorate the table eggplant, you can make out of it a bug: just cut the eggplant in half and cut with a sharp knife pattern as in the photo, legs and turtle head made of pickles, do not forget to lubricate the cuts on the "shell" with lemon juice, or they darken.

Guests are always happy and normal aubergine rolls that inspire your taste all those who love this vegetable.

Excellent choice - draw rolls of eggplant in the form of Christmas candles: just do the usual rolls and place them on a plate vertically, garnish with pomegranate seeds, almonds and herbs.