Eggplants in Moldavian style - an original recipe and a very tasty salad with eggplants for the winter.

To prepare eggplants in Moldavian style, you need to take 175 g of eggplant and the same amount of tomato paste, 35 g of carrots and onions, 70 g of bell pepper, a little dill and parsley and 5 g of salt. This amount of ingredients is calculated for one half-liter jar of prepared eggplants.

How to prepare eggplant salad in Moldavian style.

Eggplants cut into small pieces are placed in a 3% salt solution to rid the eggplants of excess bitterness and kept in the salt solution.

Many housewives are concerned about the question: how long should eggplants be kept in salt water? For me, the optimal time is always 15 minutes. After this time, remove the solution and place the eggplants in a colander to drain excess liquid.

Then fry each piece of eggplant on both sides in sunflower or olive oil and place the fried vegetables in a colander again to remove excess oil from the eggplant.

Cut the sweet peppers and onions into rings about 1 cm wide, and cut the carrots into strips up to 0.5 cm wide. Place the chopped vegetables in a separate bowl and also fry in vegetable oil until tender.

Wash and finely chop the dill and parsley.

Next, prepare the tomato sauce. By adding about 3 parts of water to one part of tomato paste, you need to bring the resulting liquid to a boil.

Add fried vegetables and herbs, salt to the resulting sauce and keep it on the fire after boiling for about 10 minutes.

After this, add the fried eggplants to the sauce and vegetables, bring to a boil, stirring, and keep on low heat for about 10 minutes.

Quickly put the hot vegetable mixture into half-liter jars and sterilize for about 55 minutes, then roll up and leave to cool.

We take the cooled jars with ready-made eggplants to a cool place and store them until use.

Cooked eggplants in Moldavian style are delicate in taste and can be used as a cold appetizer, salad or regular vegetable dish when there is no time to bother with preparing dinner or lunch.