Odessa-style eggplant pepper - a very simple and tasty recipe 🥗

Kitchen appliances and utensils: kitchen scale, hob, knife, cutting board, bag, foil, deep bowl, spoon.

Ingredients

Step cooking

1. In a deep bowl, mix 45 g of olive oil, 5 g of lemon juice and 3 g of granulated sugar. Add salt and black pepper to taste and mix everything well. If you do not have lemon juice, then you can replace it with vinegar 9%.
   
2. We clean, wash and cut thin onions 2 onions. Put them in a bowl with dressing.
   
3. Peel and finely chop 1 clove of garlic. Wash, dry from moisture and chop 2 branches of fresh basil.
   
4. Add garlic and basil to a common bowl, mix and leave to marinate.
   
5. Wash 2 large bell peppers and 2 eggplants thoroughly. We cover the gas stove with foil so that it is more convenient to wash it later. We put on the stove a barbecue grill or a regular grill from the oven.
   
6. Turn on the gas and put our peppers. We burn them from different sides until they become soft. You can check this with a toothpick.
   
7. Put the finished peppers in a plastic bag and tie. Thanks to this, we can easily remove the skin.
   
8. We put two eggplants on the wire rack and also burn them from all sides until soft.
   
9. We put the finished eggplant on a plate, cut it and select the inside with a spoon.
   
10. Cut the eggplant pulp and put in a bowl with pickled onions.
    
11. We take the peppers out of the bag, peel them off the skin and carefully cut the pulp from the leg so that the seeds do not come across.
    
12. Cut the pulp with bell pepper into pieces and put in a bowl. Mix everything well and serve.
    

Decoration methods and serving options

• If you want to make this salad less spicy, then add only one onion to it. You can also chop the onion, pour it with cold water and leave it for five minutes, so the bitterness will go away.
• If on the contrary you want to be sharper, then you can add a little hot fresh pepper.
• Most often, this pepper salad is consumed immediately after cooking. If you want to keep it longer, then close in sterilized jars.
• If you wish, you can bake and add tomatoes to the salad. But in this case, choose less juicy fruits, otherwise they may just fall apart when baked.
• If you do not want to bake vegetables on an open fire, then use the oven, but the taste may change slightly.

Video recipe

This video shows how to correctly, quickly and tastyly prepare fragrant pepper in Odessa. This salad can be prepared and closed for the winter. Surprise your family and friends with an unusual dish.