Delicious appetizer - eggplant roll with cheese and garlic

Homeland eggplant is India.Initially, this plant grew wild. However, about fifteen hundred years ago, he was “civilized” and started growing in vegetable gardens. And the number of dishes prepared from these miraculous fruits of dark purple color grew every year. Spreading all over the world, especially in the countries of the Mediterranean and Asia Minor, eggplants, or, as they were otherwise called, the Badrijans, fell in love with the cooks of different countries and peoples, and each of them began to invent recipes of dishes taking into account the culinary traditions of his people. So, there appeared such oriental dishes as Imam Baghdadi, Greek Moussaka, Agip Sandal, Phali with Eggplants, Zamorskaya caviar (remember the comedy Ivan Vasilyevich Changes Profession), eggplant roll with cheese and garlic or with pomegranate and nuts and other awesome tasty dishes.

Да, на самом деле, вкус кушаний из “синеньких” (as they were in the old days, and even today, Russian hostesses were called) so good that they immediately like everyone who tries them. There is even an Eastern legend about how the Imam from Baghdad, having tasted a dish made from fried eggplants, was so impressed with his taste that

lost consciousness.The cooks wanted to be executed for poisoning a high-ranking official, but the imam who came to his senses, on the contrary, gave him a generous gift and appointed him as his personal chef. About eggplant roll with cheese and garlic is not yet a legend, but its taste is so beautiful that those who try this snack at least once in their lives will keep it in their memory for a long time.

In this article we want to bring to your attentionvery tasty, and most importantly easy recipe, which describes how to properly prepare an eggplant roll with cheese and garlic. This cold dish is considered an element of Georgian cuisine. However, it has undergone so many modifications that it is already difficult to talk about its nationality. By the way, this is not so important.

Eggplant roll with cheese and garlic

Ingredients:

• 2 large eggplants;
• 1 pack of cream cheese “Hochland” or “Viola”;
• clove of garlic;
• 2-3 sprigs of cilantro;
• 10-12 feathers of green onions;
• 1 large tomato;
• of seasonings, if desired, hops-suneli and black pepper can be used;
• vegetable oil for roasting.

Cooking method

Eggplants do not need to be peeled from the skin. Thoroughly wash and cut into thin

petals (5-6 pieces). Salt and leave (30 min.) to flow bitterness. At the bottom of the pan pour vegetable oil, wait for it to warm up, fry the eggplant petals on both sides until golden brown. Spread them out on paper napkins in order to remove excess fat. Tomato cut into 10-12 very thin slices.

In a separate bowl with a fork, knead the cheese,add to it finely chopped greens and crushed garlic. Spice up. Stir everything well until smooth. Everything, it is already possible to form rolls from eggplants with cheese and garlic. Each petal is greased with a thick layer of cheese cream, put tomato slices on top, and then wrap it in a roll and tie it with feathers of green onions. Rolls can be laid in a shallow bowl in an upright position. So they will look like roses. The dish is decorated with sprigs of parsley or other herbs. By the way, eggplant rolls with cheese can be cooked without adding garlic.

Enjoy your meal!