The eggplants baked in an oven are incredibly tasty. However the dish can be spoiled easily if to overdo it in the furnace or to choose incorrectly temperature condition of roasting. Therefore before starting cooking, it is necessary to study all nuances of cooking of these vegetables.
Eggplants are vegetables which suit both for conservation, and for preparation of lungs of soups, vitamin salads, casseroles and snack. The simplest option of receiving nauvkusneyshy, and, above all - a useful eggplants dish, is roasting of vegetables entirely, halves or circles in an oven.
The baked eggplants can be as an independent dish (especially if when cooking greens, spices and cheese were used), and to act as a garnish for meat, fish. However that the dish turned out tasty and useful, it is important to prepare competently vegetables for roasting, and when cooking strictly to observe temperature condition and to set certain time of roasting for a concrete dish.
The fact is that time of cooking of eggplants directly depends on the size of the baked pieces - the they are larger, the thermal treatment has to be longer and vice versa. For example, if the eggplants cut by circles on 1-1.5 centimeters are baked in the furnace, then time of their cooking shouldn't exceed 20 minutes (at 180-190 degrees). The average size the fruits cut in half demand slightly more time for full cooking firing - 30-35 minutes of endurance in an oven at a temperature of 190-200 degrees. And for roasting of average and large eggplants entirely it is necessary to spend to an hour of time when roasting in the furnace warmed up to 200 degrees.
Also It should be noted that eggplants demand special preparation for thermal treatment as some vegetables have feature to taste bitter. It is simple to remove bitterness from fruits, but on it time is required. For example, if it is necessary to bake the vegetables cut by pieces, then segments at first should be sprinkled with salt, to sustain minutes 30-40 then to wash out in cold water. The whole fruits need 12 hour soaking in salty solution (a salt tablespoon on water liter).