Eggplant - a wonderful filling for pizza.
Open pies with them are very tasty and fragrant, there are many fillings and it is incredibly juicy.
It's time to indulge in homemade pizza!
Eggplant Pizza - General Cooking Principles
Eggplants may be bitter, so they must be soaked in salt water before use. If you are sure that there is no bitterness, then you can use immediately. In its raw form, a vegetable is never laid in pizza. Usually it is fried in a pan, cut into circles, cubes, cubes or a thin straw.
What else is used for the filling:
• tomato sauce;
• sausage, poultry or meat;
• various vegetables;
• spices;
• cheese;
• olives.
As a basis, you can cook any dough that you like. Below are some recipes to choose from. You can use puff pastry bought in a store or purchase a ready-made base. Pizza is baked mainly in the oven, sometimes a microwave is used.
Italian-style pizza with eggplant and tomato
Italian pizza recipe with eggplant and tomato on a thin base. The dough is kneaded fresh, it is advisable to use olive oil everywhere. If there is no mixture of Italian herbs, then only oregano can be used.
Ingredients
Dough:
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• 0.3 cups of water;
• 1 cup flour;
• salt.
Filling:
• 3 tomatoes;
• 2 cloves of garlic;
• 1 eggplant;
• 1 bell pepper;
• 1 tsp Italian herbs or oregano;
• 3 tablespoons of oil;
• 150 g of cheese.
Cooking
1. Mix all the ingredients for the dough together, knead well, leave the lump for half an hour.
2. During this time, you need to prepare the filling. Wash the eggplant, cut into circles, fry in a frying pan, barely oiled with olive oil. Take out in a plate. Add salt.
3. Add the rest of the oil to the same pan.
4. Cut the cloves of garlic, fry, add chopped bell pepper.
5. Grate tomatoes without skins, add to the pan, boil the sauce in half. It should turn out thick and saturated, season with salt, Italian herbs.
6. Roll the dough into a thin cake. Italians stretch his arms.
7. Put a layer of sauce, scatter the fried eggplant circles.
8. Top with grated cheese, send to bake.
9. Preparing such a pizza will be approximately ten minutes at 210 degrees.
Hearty pizza with eggplant and sausage
For such pizza, yeast dough is used. You can knead it in milk, in the recipe uses warm water. Sausage can be used smoked, boiled, delicious with salami.
Ingredients
• 200 ml of milk;
• 30 ml of oil;
• 1 tsp yeast
• salt, sugar;
• flour.
For filling:
• 4-5 spoons of any ketchup;
• 2 eggplants;
• 2 onion heads;
• 300 g of sausage;
• 170 g of cheese;
• oil, spices.
Cooking
1. The test will need to stand for at least an hour, so you need to knead it in advance. Add a pinch of salt, a spoonful of sugar in warm water (or milk), pour in the butter and put the yeast. Mix everything well, add flour, knead a rather thick, but not quite cool dough, it should spread slightly on the table.
2. Put the dough in a saucepan under the towel, let it rise.
3. Cut the onion heads into thin slices, fry in a skillet for a couple of minutes.
4. Add the eggplant, chopped into cubes, and cook with the onion over high heat. Vegetables should be browned, but not brought to full readiness. Turn off, cool.
5. Cut the sausage into arbitrary pieces, you can chop into thin circles.
6. Cheese must be grated.
7. Take out the dough that has come up, turn on the stove to heat up at 200 ° C.
8. Roll out the base for pizza in the form of a thin layer of arbitrary shape, transfer to a baking sheet, generously grease with ketchup.
9. Evenly sprinkle with slices of eggplant and onion, scatter slices of sausage.
10. It remains to sprinkle everything with cheese, bake eggplant pizza until cooked.
Pizza with eggplant and olives on puff pastry
A fast pizza option that can be picked up in a few minutes. Start cooking with eggplant, as it takes the most time.
Ingredients
• 200 g of dough;
• 2 small eggplants;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 12-15 olives;
• 3 tablespoons of ketchup;
• 2 tablespoons of oil;
• spices.
Cooking
1. Straw the eggplant, coarsely not needed. Put in hot oil, fry for three minutes, salt, pepper and leave to cool.
2. Roll up the dough sheet. If it is rectangular, then it is more convenient to bake pizza on a baking sheet. Transfer the cake, coat with ketchup. For a better taste, you can add garlic, herbs, mustard.
3. Put eggplant slices on ketchup.
4. Cut olives into rings or quarters, mix with cheese and sprinkle pizza on top.
5. Bake at 220 degrees until cooked.
Eggplant and Chicken Pizza
A variant of another hearty pizza on a thin basis, but from yeast dough. This amount of food is enough to make one large pie or two medium ones.
Ingredients
• 230 ml of water;
• salt;
• 7 g of yeast;
• 50 ml of olive oil;
• 350 g flour;
• 1 tsp Sahara.
Filling:
• 2 eggplants;
• 300 g of boiled or smoked chicken;
• 150 g of cheese.
Sauce:
• 2 onion heads;
• 4 tomatoes;
• spices;
• 3 tablespoons of oil.
Cooking
1. Dissolve the yeast in a warm liquid, add sugar and salt, olive oil, knead the dough with flour. If you make several pizzas, you can immediately divide it into independent lumps.
2. Transfer the dough into bags, put in the refrigerator for 40 minutes.
3. Place two pans on the stove. In one, fry the eggplant cut in circles, do not add a lot of oil, lightly grease the surface.
4. In the second pan, prepare the sauce. To do this, fry the diced onions in a sufficient amount of oil, add the chopped tomatoes. Once all the juice has evaporated, the stove can be turned off. Grind onions and tomatoes with a blender, add spices: salt, pepper, aromatic herbs.
5. Cut the boiled chicken into slices. Sprinkle salt with any spices. Smoked or fried poultry can be used similarly.
6. Take out the dough, roll out thin cakes or one large layer, lay on a heat-resistant sheet.
7. Put the sauce on it, scatter the pieces of chicken, spread the eggplant.
8. Pour open cheese pie, bake until cooked.
Juicy Eggplant Pizza with Egg Fill
A variant of delicious pizza that can be collected on absolutely any dough. Here, the recipe uses a puff product from the store, but you can use any other.
Ingredients
• 0.3 kg of dough;
• 2 small eggplants;
• 1 bunch of green onions;
• 2 eggs;
• 100 g of cheese;
• 100 g sour cream or mayonnaise;
• Spices;
• 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
• 2 tomatoes.
Cooking
1. Remove the dough while it is thawing, turn on the 210 oven and prepare the filling.
2. Cut the eggplant into strips or small cubes, fry in a pan with a few drops of oil. Bring the vegetable almost to readiness. Cool.
3. For pouring, beat eggs with sour cream, add salt, pepper and season the mixture with grated cheese.
4. Cut the tomatoes into thin circles, chop the green onion finely.
5. Lay out the dough, if the layer is thicker than half a centimeter, then it can be rolled out a little. Lubricate with any sauce or ketchup, sprinkle with green onions.
6. Lay out the pieces of eggplant, scatter circles of fresh tomatoes on them.
7. Now you need to pour the pizza with the prepared mixture of cheese with sour cream and eggs. This is done with a small spoon, it is desirable to grease the mugs of tomatoes thinly with the sauce, pour the leftovers on the pie between the tomatoes.
8. This pizza is baked for about 20 minutes.
Pizza with eggplant and pickled mushrooms
Eggplants themselves resemble mushrooms, and they combine wonderfully. For this pizza, you can knead the dough according to any of the recipes above or take a layered layer.
Ingredients
• 0.3-0.4 kg of dough;
• 2 tomatoes;
• 1 onion head;
• butter;
• 2 eggplants;
• 150 g of cheese;
• 100 g of salted mushrooms;
• 0.5 tsp Italian herbs, spices.
Cooking
1. Cut eggplant in circles, fry on both sides in a skillet.
2. Remove the eggplant, add oil, grated tomatoes, spices and herbs, cook the sauce in a pan. But you can take any ketchup.
3. Onion cut into very thin half rings, add salt, drip a little vinegar and remember well with your hands. Leave to marinate.
4. Mushrooms need to be thinly cut, you can plate or any other pieces.
5. Collect the pizza. Grease the rolled dough with sauce, sprinkle with pickled onions.
6. Lay out the eggplant circles, spread the mushroom slices between them.
7. It remains to fill with cheese, put the pie on baking.
Vegetable pizza with eggplant, sweet pepper and cheese
A variant of vegetable pizza with cheese, for which it is better to use peppers of different colors. Take any dough.
Ingredients
• 300 g of dough;
• 1 eggplant;
• 2 sweet peppers;
• 180 g of cheese;
• 10-15 olives;
• 3 tablespoons of tomato sauce;
• spices, a little oil.
Cooking
1. Cut the eggplants arbitrarily, lightly fry in a pan with olive oil, cool, season with spices.
2. Lubricate the dough with any sauce.
3. Cut the pepper into thin strips, place in tomato sauce.
4. Lay eggplant on top. Between them scatter slices of olives.
5. Pour cheese and bake!
Eggplant Pizza - Useful Tips and Tricks
• To prevent the pizza toppings from being fresh, you can add a few pickles to it.
• If the eggplant is soaked in saline, it must be soaked well. In addition to salt the ingredients of the filling is not necessary, as in cheese, sauces, sausage spices are also enough.
• If you want to get a dry bottom of pizza, you can bake the base in the oven almost until done, then put the filling on it and fry the open cake well at a temperature of at least 220 degrees.
