How to remove bitterness from eggplant before frying: 7 ways

Dark-fruited nightshade, it is also an eggplant, many people like as a snack or side dish. But before cooking, you often need to remove the bitterness from the eggplant before frying - after all, the freshest young fruits do not always fall into our grocery basket. There are several ways that housewives and professional chefs use. We have selected the 7 most effective for you.

Method 1 - using boiling water

Fresh eggplant grown on its own site with sufficient watering and good care, no need to process before frying. It is enough to just wash and chop them. But if the vegetables are bought at the market or in the supermarket, there is a possibility that they already have a bitter taste. It concentrates in the peel and pulp while the eggplant is transported and lies on a shelf.

To rid the product of bitterness with boiling water, you need:

• chop the flesh into cubes;
• put in a colander;
• dip in boiling salted water for 2 minutes;
• take out of the water and let it drain;
• further cook according to the recipe.

Boiling water helps to remove the taste very quickly, but this technique is not suitable for all recipes. It is recommended to be used only for those dishes in which the shape of the slicing is not of particular importance. It is not worth harvesting the vegetable in advance in this way - such a treatment is suitable immediately before cooking.

Method 2 - in salt water

Soak the eggplant in salt in whole or in pieces. For the preparation of saline, 1 liter of cold drinking water and 1 tablespoon of salt are used.

In order for bitterness to leave the whole fruit, it takes at least two hours. She leaves the pieces in about 30 minutes.

How to do it right?

• Eggplant is well washed before cooking.
• Each is cut with round or longitudinal slices, cubes or in the other way specified in the recipe.
• Spread in a bowl of salted water.
• Press down on top of the oppression so as not to pop up.
• After rinsing with fresh water and spread on a towel to remove excess moisture.

Method 3 - in milk

Soak a bitter vegetable, cut into pieces, you can not only in salt water, but also in milk. The technique is very similar to the previous one:

• wash the vegetable and cut it in the right way;
• placed in a container with milk (no salt needed);
• press on top with oppression so as not to pop up;
• after 30-40 minutes, rinse with running water and dry on a towel.

Method 4 - Using Seed Removal

There is a version that eggplant seeds are bitter, because in shape they resemble pepper seeds.

When there is no time for soaking, the cook removes the seeds:

1. the vegetable is well washed;
2. cut with a sharp knife along;
3. scrub the seeds with a spoon (as much as possible);
4. rinse and dry with paper towels.

Method 5 - using peeling

If bitterness is collected in the peel - it must be removed. To do this, they must wash the vegetables, and then remove the shell with a sharp thin knife or a peeler. However, not all recipes are "naked" eggplant.

It is possible to remove the peel not completely, but with strips. This method is suitable for conservation. Striped eggplant looks spectacular in a jar. Before preserving, they are still soaked in salted water for about half an hour.

Method 6 - Dry

If you soak the vegetables there is no desire or time, bitterness can be removed with salt. It is not distributed in water, but directly on slices of eggplant. For this:

• ripe vegetables are washed, cut into pieces;
• a flat container or a glass board is salted, slices are laid on top;
• their surface is also sprinkled with salt;
• when the juice comes out on the cut, the vegetables are ready to cook - they are rinsed or wiped with a paper towel.

For this case, it is better to use coarse sea or rock salt. Small can completely soak in the pulp and make the dish salted.

Method 7 - in the freezer

For the preparation of caviar "overseas eggplant" is a good method of removing bitterness with the help of cold. It is used when there is a margin of time, and vegetables do not need to maintain shape during the heat treatment. Washed eggplant, if necessary, is cleaned, then cut into pieces, put in a plastic bag and put in the freezer for at least 3-4 hours. Having taken out of the freezer, the vegetables are thawed naturally, and then pressed to remove excess fluid. Together with her, bitterness also leaves.

Delicious seasonal vegetables like eggplant are fried in slices, baked, cooked in the form of stew or caviar. And so that they do not bitter, it is better to process them before cooking. Now you can do this using one of seven simple and effective ways.