How to fry eggplant with almost no oil

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Eggplants make many wonderful dishes. Stuffed vegetables, cheese rolls, and even just fried “circles” immediately come to mind.

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Thermal treatment of the dark purple fruit is a mandatory process. And if you heat up eggplants in a frying pan, then you usually cannot do without a large amount of oil.

And here a serious problem arises: the vegetable instantly absorbs viscous liquid. Of course, this circumstance is not to the liking of people who watch their figure. After all, you want the vegetable product not to lose its beneficial properties and not to acquire excessive calories.

And professional chefs know how to achieve such a result without overdoing it with the oil component. That's the trick.

How to fry eggplants with almost no oil

It is clear that you cannot do without using oil at all. If this ingredient is not present, the eggplants will quickly turn into coals right in the pan.

But it is very easy to significantly reduce the amount of this component. To do this, you need to pre-process the vegetable.

The eggplants cut into slices should be sent to the microwave for 5 minutes. During this time, the product will partially reach readiness and noticeably soften.

During frying, such eggplant slices will hardly absorb oil.

Thus, before placing the prepared vegetable in the pan, you can limit yourself to lightly wiping the surface of the dishes with a viscous liquid.

It is worth noting that pre-treating eggplants helps not only prevent excessive oil absorption, but also significantly speed up cooking: the vegetables can be removed from the pan in literally half a minute.