Eggplant pie is an unusually tasty addition to the festive table
In autumn, vegetables ripen en masse in the beds. The housewives begin a hot season of harvesting and there is an opportunity to please relatives with some novelty from fresh homemade vegetables. You can make an eggplant pie by choosing one of our suggested recipes. Let's look at how to prepare this simple dish, and also find out if you can make the vegetables not bitter.
How to prevent eggplant from being bitter
Many people dislike eggplant precisely because it tastes bitter, which is especially felt after cooking eggplant pie or other dishes. 
Eggplant skins can also be a source of bitterness. Therefore, it is best to cut it off with a knife before cooking.
If the two previous methods do not work, you can try another one. Experienced housewives say that eggplant is bitter because of the seeds. They look like pepper seeds. Of course, they are not so spicy, but they still add bitterness to vegetables. It is enough to get rid of them for the unpleasant aftertaste to disappear. To get rid of the bitterness, cut the vegetables in half and scrub the seeds with a spoon.
Well, the last way is to soak vegetables in milk. To do this, cut the eggplant into plates, fill it with milk and press it with a press. It will take at least half an hour to soak. After that, remove the vegetables and squeeze out with a paper towel.
Eggplant pie with cheese and herbs
We offer you one of the options for a cake made on a shortcrust pastry pillow. The finished recipe turns out to be light, airy, but at the same time very satisfying. For taste, cheese is added to the eggplant pie, and it is better to choose salty varieties - this will make the taste more unusual. Fresh or dried dill will add extra piquancy to it.
Recipe ingredients
In order to prepare the recipe, you will need the following ingredients:
- Chicken eggs - only 3 pcs. One of them will go into the dough, and two more for pouring.
- 1 cup flour.
- 2 eggplants.
- 1 tsp dough salt and 2 tsp. in order to rid vegetables of bitterness.
- Medium head of onion.
- 1 carrot.
- Cream (can be replaced with fat milk or even kefir) - 1 tbsp.
- 100 g of cheese (better saltier, you can cheese).
- 100 g of butter.
- Fresh chopped greens.
- 3 tbsp. l. vegetable oil.
Method for making eggplant pie
In order to prepare an eggplant pie, you need to follow the instructions:
- Soak the eggplant using one of the methods above. It is best to cut the eggplants for the pie and leave them in salted water. The minimum waiting time is half an hour.
- Next, squeeze the eggplants well to drain excess water from them, and cut them into cubes. Pour vegetable oil into the pan and fry the vegetables a little. Then wash, peel the rest of the vegetables, rub them on a coarse grater. Fry vegetables with eggplants until golden brown. The excess liquid left over from vegetables can be drained through a sieve.
- In the next step, prepare the dough. To do this, grate the butter chilled in the freezer on a coarse grater.Mix wheat flour with salt and add an egg. Grind everything thoroughly. Add cold butter to this, and grind everything again. Knead the dough thoroughly, then send it to the cold for half an hour.
- When the dough is standing, start rolling it out. Put parchment paper on the mold, brush with vegetable oil. Place the dough on the paper and flatten it, and form the sides. Top the dough with eggplants with fried herbs.
- Next, prepare the fill. To do this, beat two eggs with salt with a mixer. Add milk and stir well. Grate the cheese coarsely and mix with the filling. That's it, the fill is ready. Pour the filling over the vegetables and sprinkle with finely chopped herbs. Cook for 40-50 minutes at 180 degrees.
- Remove the finished cake from the mold, gently pulling by the sides, cut into pieces and let cool slightly. It is most delicious to eat it warm.
Eggplant minced meat pie
If the usual eggplant liquid pie seems too simple and not satisfying to you, you can add minced meat. True, the taste of the pie, and the recipe itself, will change beyond recognition ...
Ingredients for cooking
One recipe with minced meat will need the following amount of ingredients:
- 6 medium-sized ripe eggplants;
- 800 g minced meat - you can take only pork or pork and beef, but not chicken, it is too liquid;
- 2 onions;
- 3 medium sized tomatoes;
- a glass of milk;
- 3 chicken eggs;
- 50 g of cheese;
- the same amount of butter;
- 2 tbsp. l. mayonnaise;
- salt, herbs.
Cooking method
Prepare the recipe as follows:
- Soak the eggplants as described above. Fry vegetables soaked and cut into plates on both sides in vegetable oil.
- Remove the peel from the tomato. Tomatoes cut into slices and chop the onion in half rings.
- In the first layer in a dish greased with vegetable oil, put the eggplants skin side down. Put butter on top of the eggplants.
- Next, put the minced meat on the eggplant. It must be pre-salt, pepper, add chopped greens there and rub a completely small onion on a fine grater. Lubricate the minced meat with mayonnaise, and put the tomatoes cut into plates on top. Next, lay out the onions, previously fried until golden brown. And again put the eggplants, skins up.
- Top all the ingredients with a mixture of milk, grated cheese and eggs, thoroughly mixed together.
- The cake is baked for an hour at 180 degrees.
Enjoy your meal!