With the onset of the eggplant harvest season, every housewife tries to find the best ways to prepare them, especially if the year turned out to be particularly fruitful for these vegetables. Eggplant caviar, various salads and appetizers of fried eggplant with garlic and tomatoes are rightfully considered traditional recipes. Are you bored with these dishes that you cook year after year? There is a solution. In this article we will offer you a recipe for cooking baked eggplant. This dish can easily replace a full meal. And thanks to the beautiful presentation, fan-baked eggplants can become an excellent element of the festive table.
There are several options for preparing this dish. Let's look at the process and features of preparing the best eggplant fan recipe - baked with cheese and tomatoes. This option will require the simplest ingredients, a minimum of culinary skills and very little time.
Fan-baked eggplant with tomatoes and cheese: list of ingredients
This dish is also called “peacock tail” and “firebird”, which is not surprising. After all, the appearance of the finished snack really resembles the tail of a fairy-tale bird.
As we said above, this recipe is quite simple, and its components can easily be found in any refrigerator. So, to prepare fanned eggplants with cheese and tomatoes, prepare (the number of ingredients is given for one serving):
- eggplants (calculate 1 vegetable per person);
- fresh medium-sized tomato;
- 40 grams of mayonnaise (preferably olive or quail);
- a teaspoon of vegetable oil (or 10 grams of butter);
- 30 grams of cheese of any kind;
- garlic clove;
- salt, spices and herbs to taste.
Eggplant "Firebird". Recipe with photo
The original dish is prepared from the following products:
- Eggplants – 500 grams.
- Bacon – 100 g.
- Tomatoes - two pieces.
- Bell pepper.
- Hard cheese – 100 g.
- Mayonnaise or similar sauce.
- Garlic.
- Greenery.
- Salt and allspice.
How to cook Firebird eggplants? You can find the recipe with photos here:
- Wash the eggplants, dry them and cut them in half.
- Make cuts on each part, not reaching the cutting. You should end up with thin enough slices that you can fan them out later.
- After this, sprinkle the pulp with salt and leave the eggplants alone for about half an hour.
- Cut the bell pepper into slices, the bacon into strips, and the tomatoes into slices.
- Cut the cheese into slices.
- Place the eggplants on a baking sheet or baking dish. Place cheese, bacon, peppers and tomatoes between the slices.
- Mix mayonnaise with salt, pepper, chopped garlic and chopped herbs.
- Lubricate the workpiece with sauce, trying to add it to the cuts.
Cook the dish in a preheated oven for about 30 minutes.
Preparation of starting products
Eggplants and tomatoes are thoroughly washed and excess moisture is removed. The stems are removed from the eggplants, after which the fruits are cut lengthwise into two equal parts. Each half is cut to form an eggplant fan. That is, the slots should not reach the base of the vegetable. The thickness of the slices should be kept in the range of 5-7 millimeters. The prepared eggplant fan is well salted and left for half an hour - this will relieve the vegetable of excessive bitterness. After this time, the eggplant is washed to remove excess salt.
At this time, cut the tomatoes into thin slices. Do the same with cheese. Garlic is crushed and mixed with mayonnaise.
Eggplants in a slow cooker
“Smart” kitchen appliances will always help the housewife prepare a delicious dish for the whole family. Firebird eggplants can be made not only in the oven, but also using a slow cooker. For this dish you will need:
- Eggplant.
- Adyghe cheese or suluguni.
- Sweet bell pepper.
- Ham.
- Smoked
- Garlic.
- Mayonnaise.
How to cook Firebird eggplants in a slow cooker? You can find the recipe for creating the dish here:
- Cut off the tails of the eggplants, and then cut them into slices, not reaching the very end.
- Brush the pulp with salt and chopped garlic.
- Place tomato slices, slices of cheese and ham into the slits.
- Place the preparations in the multicooker bowl and pour mayonnaise over them.
Cook the dish in the “Baking” mode for half an hour. Serve the appetizer hot or cold.
Shaping the dish
Cover the prepared baking sheet with foil or baking paper, grease with vegetable (or melted butter) oil. Then an eggplant fan is laid out on the foil. The main task is to carefully stuff the eggplant with tomatoes and cheese to give the dish the most attractive appearance. To do this, each slice of vegetable is coated with a thin layer of garlic mayonnaise, and then sandwiched with thin slices of tomatoes and cheese. Don't forget to lightly add salt and pepper to each layer. And to get an appetizing golden brown crust, you can cover the top of the fan with the thinnest layer of mayonnaise.
Eggplant fan
Here is another option for preparing a beautiful and tasty snack.
- Two medium sized eggplants.
- 250 grams of minced chicken.
- One onion.
- Two tomatoes.
- 75 grams of grated cheese.
- Salt, any seasonings and ground pepper.
- A couple of tablespoons of vegetable oil.
And we will prepare the “Firebird” eggplants like this:
- Wipe the washed “little blue ones” dry and carefully cut into slices, not reaching the tails.
- Place the vegetables on a cutting board and press with your hand so that the workpiece becomes like a fan.
- Apply a thin layer of minced chicken to each resulting plate, and then salt and pepper it.
- Sprinkle the eggplants with vegetable oil and bake in a preheated oven.
- Finely chop the peeled onions and tomatoes. Mix the products, add grated cheese, spices and salt.
- When the minced meat is half cooked, remove the pan from the oven. Place vegetables and cheese on the preparations, and then bake the dish for another 20 minutes.
When the treat is ready, bring it to the table. This dish can also be served with mayonnaise or fresh tomato sauce.
Baking process
Prepare a preheated oven in advance - this will greatly speed up the cooking process. A baking sheet with eggplant fans goes into the oven for forty minutes. It is very important to maintain the correct temperature conditions so as not to dry out the eggplants. To bake eggplants with a fan of cheese in the oven, the temperature should not exceed 190 degrees. Sometimes forty minutes is not enough to fully bake a vegetable. Therefore, before removing the dish from the oven, check its readiness using a wooden skewer. It should pass through the eggplant slice very easily - this is what indicates its complete readiness. But try not to overcook the dish in the oven - this will cause it to lose its moderate juiciness and pleasant garlic aroma.
Serving on the festive table
The finished hot eggplant fan is immediately placed on a serving plate, decorated with a lettuce leaf and sprinkled with finely chopped fresh herbs. You can serve it with a toasted slice of bread or toast.
Very often housewives use this dish as a complete side dish for meat. This is understandable, because baked vegetables go perfectly with poultry, beef or lamb. What’s important is that this combination is also incredibly useful.
Another option for serving this dish is with pickled or fried mushrooms.
Important! Do not let the dish cool completely before serving! Eggplant and tomatoes produce a considerable amount of juice, which will simply make the dish watery and tasteless.
Eggplant "Firebird" in the oven
The name of the dish is fabulous and I assure you, it is no less colorful when cooked. And of course, no less attractive in its taste. A set of common products makes this recipe accessible to many housewives. During the season of summer vegetables, when you want a minimum amount of calories, when meat is preferably lean, and if there are vegetables, then a lot of variety. This is where these kinds of recipes with an intricate name, but not at all complicated, come to the rescue. Many different products are suitable for this. But in its classic form, this recipe requires a small set of ingredients, and the combination of tomatoes and eggplants makes it juicier and more tender. The only nuance in the low-calorie set of products is mayonnaise. But there are many varieties of mayonnaise with low fat content. In the end, some housewives use sour cream. And I assure you, the taste does not suffer from this. But to give the dish some piquancy, garlic is considered an indispensable condition, which is squeezed through a press, simply finely chopped or grated. And of course, at the end, when decorating the dish, you can decorate it with aromatic herbs that suit your taste. A fan of eggplant “Firebird” with cheese and tomatoes in the oven will be an excellent summer snack or side dish for meat, poultry, and fish. Nourishing, tasty, healthy and beautiful.
- eggplants – 1 pc.;
- hard cheese – 150 g;
- tomato – 2-3 pcs.;
- garlic – 2 teeth;
- mayonnaise – 2 tbsp;
- salt - to taste.
Other fan filling options
Even if you get bored with this recipe over time, feel free to experiment with the filling! Replace the tomatoes with thin slices of zucchini or zucchini, add some fried carrots and onions. And mayonnaise can be replaced with sour cream sauce.
Some housewives do not want to complicate recipes - they do not cook meat and eggplant side dish separately, and therefore simply combine these dishes. In this case, you can use any minced meat - be it pork, beef or poultry. The remaining ingredients can be left as in the main recipe, with cheese and tomatoes. The only difference will be a slightly thicker layer of mayonnaise, which must be used to cover the prepared fan. This is required so as not to dry out the minced meat excessively during the baking process. Such a dish will certainly turn out to be very tasty and satisfying, but it can be called dietary.
If you follow a special diet that does not allow you to consume excessive amounts of calories, and you need to prepare the most dietary dish possible, exclude mayonnaise and cheese from the recipe. Just add slices of bell pepper and carrots to the tomatoes. And serve the finished dish with matsoni sauce with herbs and garlic.
The dish will be amazingly tasty if you replace regular cheese with feta cheese or mozzarella. In this case, you can also exclude mayonnaise from the recipe and reduce the amount of garlic, which can overpower the taste of the cheese.
Eggplant fan or “Firebird”
Eggplant - 500g Bacon - 70-100g Tomatoes - 1-2 pcs Bell pepper - 1 pc Hard cheese - 100g Mayonnaise Garlic Parsley or cilantro Salt Pepper
30 minutes. Can be served hot or cold.
Olga, this is amazing! But I searched in a search engine before posting my recipe! I actually asked for my own ingredients!
And I usually search either by name or category. Although often the same dish is written in different categories.
cool things, these “fans” of yours :). I also added bacon, although I replaced the mayonnaise with sour cream with French mustard, coriander, oregano, and extragonad. and I had PLEASURE, yes, I had homemade goat cheese, and this thing added flavor to the snack. the public was satisfied. Thank you!
Wow, so many additions! Just a new dish! :)))The main thing is that you liked it!
Thanks for the recipe! Tasty and beautiful.
Great! Worth a try, thanks :)
Be sure to try it! I devoured all the eggplants in the photo myself; I didn’t even expect that it would turn out so delicious.
If you prefer a frittata, skip the flour and it will turn out great. Instead, you can add any other hard cheese, and instead of beet leaves, take young spinach.
This is an example of how simple stewed vegetables look elegant and therefore simply “fly away”, from the series “the first to eat, the first to eat”!
Instead of wine vinegar, feel free to add lemon juice, and instead of mozzarella - Adyghe cheese, or suluguni, or even cottage cheese (grind it well with butter, add a little pepper and
I like it when the yolk in the fried eggs “runs”. It is better to take a spicy sausage, such as chorizo. If you like, you can add parsley or basil to the sauce.
Fan-baked eggplants with tomatoes and cheese
There are two main and frequently used recipes for making eggplant fans. In the first case, the eggplants are coated inside with a mixture of olive oil, Provençal herbs and garlic, in the second - with a mixture of mayonnaise and garlic. In both cases, eggplants are stuffed with slices of tomato and cheese.
Ingredients:
- 1. Eggplants - 3 pieces;
- 2. Hard cheese - 200 grams;
- 3. Tomatoes - 3 pieces;
- 4. Mayonnaise - 4 tablespoons;
- 5. Garlic - 3 cloves.
We will need three small eggplants. If you only have large eggplants in your kitchen, cut them in half.
Cut each of them into slices, as in the photo above. Please note that the eggplants are not cut all the way through. It is thanks to this that we end up with eggplants in the shape of a fan.
Cut juicy tomatoes into thin slices.
We also thinly slice 200 grams of hard cheese.
In a separate bowl, mix mayonnaise and three cloves of garlic. Mix this mixture.
Using a pastry brush, thoroughly coat the inside of the eggplants with a mixture of garlic and mayonnaise.
We stuff the eggplants, alternating tomatoes and cheese. We also grease the eggplants on top with the remaining mayonnaise.
Place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 50 minutes. Cooking times may vary depending on the specifications of your oven. Eggplants will cook faster in an electronic oven than in a gas oven, so don’t overcook the eggplants!
Eggplant fans with tomatoes and cheese are ready. They go great with red wine, barbecue and other meat snacks. Bon appetit!
Eggplant fan is an unusual and very tasty dish, the preparation of which does not require much effort or time.
Most housewives are accustomed to adding the mentioned vegetable to caviar, various snacks, salads, etc. However, culinary specialists claim that such a product also makes a very tasty second dish baked in the oven. We will tell you how to prepare it in this article. Believe me, this option for using vegetables will not disappoint you.
An eggplant fan is also remarkable because its filling can vary significantly depending on the owner’s imagination and her taste preferences. We will tell you exactly what products you will need to prepare this dish right now.
Recipe for “Firebird Eggplant” baked in the oven:
Wash the eggplants, dry them and cut each eggplant lengthwise into 2 halves (the tails can be cut off). Cut each half lengthwise to form a fan, but do not cut all the way to the end so that the slices remain undivided. Sprinkle the eggplant cuts with salt and leave for 30 minutes. After 30 min. Wash off the salt from the eggplants and dry them.
Cut the bacon into strips. Wash the bell pepper and cut into long strips. Wash the tomatoes and cut into rings or half rings. Cut the cheese into slices.
Place the prepared eggplant halves in a greased pan or on a baking sheet. Stuff the eggplants, placing bacon, tomatoes, peppers and cheese into the cuts.
Mix mayonnaise with chopped garlic, chopped herbs, salt and pepper. Coat the top of the eggplants well with the mayonnaise mixture (you can just use mayonnaise), trying to get into the cuts.
Place the eggplants in an oven preheated to 180 degrees.
Can be served hot or cold.
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Eggplant fan: recipe
There are several options for how the dish we are considering is prepared at home. We decided to describe only the simplest and most accessible method, the implementation of which does not require many outlandish and expensive components.
So what ingredients do we need to make an eggplant fan? This recipe requires using:
- large blue eggplants - 3 pcs.;
- olive mayonnaise - approximately 150 g;
- refined sunflower oil - approximately 20 ml;
- ground black pepper - a few pinches;
- large ripe tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- coarse table salt - a few pinches;
- “Russian” hard cheese - about 100 g;
- fresh garlic - a few cloves (to taste and desire).
Processing components
Before making an eggplant fan for the holiday table, the vegetables should be carefully processed. The main component is washed thoroughly in warm water, and then the tails are removed and divided in half lengthwise. After this, the eggplant halves are laid out on a board with the cuts down and cut so that the vegetables form a kind of fan. In other words, the product is not cut to the end by about 1 cm.
As soon as the blue vegetable is processed, it is generously seasoned with salt and left in this form for 25-35 minutes. This procedure is necessary to remove all the inherent bitterness from the eggplants.
After the specified time, the vegetables are thoroughly washed under running water and then thoroughly dried with paper towels.
As for other components, they are also processed. Fresh tomatoes are thoroughly washed and cut into thin slices. If the tomatoes are too large, they are divided in half.
They also chop garlic cloves separately and cut Russian cheese into slices.
The process of forming a festive dish
How should you form an eggplant fan? This process is carried out easily and simply. Place the chopped vegetables on a baking sheet lined with cooking foil or greased with oil, and then place the entire filling into the cut. To do this, alternate tomato slices, cheese slices and chopped garlic.
To get not only a tasty, but also a beautiful eggplant fan, sprinkle it with a small amount of salt and pepper, and then cover it with a mayonnaise mesh. This treatment will help brown the dish, making it more appetizing.
Eggplant Firebird
Cooking eggplants Firebird.
Ingredients
- fresh eggplants (medium) – 2-3 pcs.;
- cheese (I used Como) – 150 g;
- tomatoes (medium, firm) – 2 pcs.;
- mayonnaise (can be replaced with sour cream) – 3-4 tbsp. spoons;
- garlic – 2-3 cloves;
- salt, parsley (or dill), vegetable oil.
Preparing products for Firebird eggplants.
Wash the vegetables well and cut off the “tails” (although you can leave them). Then remove excess moisture from the vegetables. We cut into not too thick strips so that the cut does not reach the very end (leave 1.5-2 cm). Salt well inside and leave for 20, or preferably 30 minutes. Let all the bitterness drain from them.
Mix mayonnaise with chopped parsley (or other herbs) and several cloves of garlic, passed through a press. This makes such a spicy and delicious dressing. If desired, mayonnaise can be completely or partially replaced with sour cream with a fat content of 10-15%.
Wash the tomatoes, dry them and cut into thin half rings. We also cut Como cheese into thin rectangular slices. Squeeze out any remaining liquid from the eggplant. First put tomatoes in the cuts of vegetables, and then cheese on top of them. We straighten the eggplant strips with filling as shown in the photo below. It turns out to be a kind of fan. Place the eggplants that look like the Firebird's tail on a baking sheet with foil, carefully greasing it with oil.
Lubricate the top with mayonnaise-garlic dressing generously and thoroughly. Cover the baking sheet completely with foil and place it immediately in a hot oven (180-190 degrees). Bake in this way for about 40 minutes. Then you can check if the eggplants are ready. At the end, remove the foil and let the vegetables remain uncovered in the oven for another 5-7 minutes. At this stage, you can add a little more grated cheese if you like it in large quantities.
We take out the ready-made hot Firebird eggplants and carefully transfer them to plates without disturbing their appearance. You can add some chopped herbs on top for beauty and extra taste. Great! The dish is ready and waiting! Bon appetit and good autumn mood everyone!
Heat treatment in the oven
After the eggplant fan is formed and placed on a baking sheet, it is immediately sent to a preheated oven. To quickly prepare such an unusual dish, it is advisable to bake it at a temperature of 180-190 degrees.
The duration of baking a holiday dinner depends on the size of the eggplants used, as well as on the filling. As a rule, fanned eggplants with cheese become ready to eat after 40-50 minutes.
Before you take a tasty and beautiful dish out of the oven, you should definitely check it for readiness. To do this, pierce the eggplants with a wooden stick or toothpick. If the object passes freely into the thickness of the product, then the dish can be safely removed from the oven.
Firebird eggplants baked in the oven
For this beautiful dish, take the following products:
- Two eggplants.
- Three tomatoes.
- 150 grams of hard cheese.
- Two cloves of garlic.
- A bunch of dill.
- A few tablespoons of lemon juice.
- Salt and spices.
- Vegetable oil.
Eggplant “Firebird” (you can see the photo of the dish above) is prepared as follows:
- Wash the eggplants and cut off the stems.
- Cut them (not completely) into plates about five millimeters wide.
- Rub the pulp with ground pepper and salt.
- Cut hard cheese and one tomato into slices.
- After a quarter of an hour, insert the prepared products into the cuts.
- Cover a baking sheet with parchment and place the stuffed eggplants on it.
- Immerse the remaining tomatoes in boiling water for ten seconds and then remove the skins. Cut the pulp into small cubes.
- Heat a frying pan and fry the tomatoes in vegetable oil. At the very end of cooking, add chopped garlic, salt, lemon juice and pepper.
- Cook the food for about ten minutes.
- Pour the sauce over the eggplants and bake until done in a preheated oven. The whole process will take about half an hour.
- When the dish is almost ready, sprinkle it with grated cheese.
How to serve it at the dinner table?
Now you know how to cook with a fan. After heat treatment, the vegetables are carefully removed from the oven and immediately placed on a flat plate. In this form, the dish is presented to guests along with a slice of bread or toast.
It should be especially noted that some housewives use this lunch as a side dish for meat. Eggplants go perfectly with pork, beef and poultry. They can also be eaten together with fried or pickled mushrooms.
It is impossible not to mention that it is advisable to serve such a dish at the lunch table or for dinner immediately after heat treatment. This is due to the fact that if kept fanned out to the side, they can release their juice very quickly, making the dish watery and not very tasty.
Let's sum it up
As you can see, there is nothing complicated in preparing the dish we are considering. Therefore, even a housewife without sufficient culinary experience can implement the described recipe. By the way, some chefs noticeably modify it. For example, in addition to tomatoes and cheese, they additionally place thin slices of zucchini, onion rings, various greens, carrots and other vegetables into an eggplant fan.
If you want to make a meat dish, then we recommend using minced meat, thin slices of bacon, ham, sausage or even sausages, chopped into slices, as the filling. Such components will contribute to a more satisfying and flavorful lunch.
Fan baked eggplants
- This is a very popular summer snack that can be prepared in different ways and served either hot or cold. It is ideal for holiday feasts, everyday lunches and dinners, and also as an original dish for a picnic.
There are many recipes for preparing this snack and we have collected the most interesting of them for you in this article, you just have to choose the one you like and go to the kitchen.
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