simmered cook, fried  eggplant in tomato sauce

Frying eggplant with tomato sauce in a healthier way.
Fried eggplants in tomato sauce is delicious side dish for meat meals, steaks, burgers, lamb chop or as an appetizer.
Making Fried eggplant in tomato sauce is no new recipe, but best part of this new try is, I used only 1 Tbsp olive oil frying it.
As you may know frying eggplant requires lots of olive oil, and eggplants absorb too much oil. Not to mention burning oil until eggplants becomes nicely fried and pink. Try it you will find it as delicious as regular frying eggplants.
 
Ingredients:
Two good sizes freshly picked eggplant and 1 Tbsp olive oil.
3/4 C water
2 Tbsp. Olive oil
4 cloves of garlic
1 Onion
4-5 sweet green chili pepper
1 ½ C crashed tomatoes
1/2 Tbsp. turmeric powder
1/2 Tbsp. red chili pepper powder
Chopped Parsley for garnish.
 
Making:
Peel eggplants striped
Slice 1/2-inch thickness
Place in a shallow pan as one layer
Drizzle 1 Tbsp.  olive oil. Pour water. Close the lid.
Let it simmer until egg plants slices get semi-soft, about 15 minutes.
Take of the lid and continue to cook, in few minutes eggplants browns as they were fried. Take of the heat set aside.
In the meantime,
Heat 2 Tbsp. olive oil in a sauce pan, add chopped onion, garlic and chili peppers (chopped big), mix and sauté until onions becomes translucent.
Add crushed tomato, turmeric and red chili powder.
Simmer until tomatoes cooked.
In a serving dish place one single layer eggplant followed by one layer tomato sauce, and repeat this until you run out of ingredients,
Garnish with chopped parsley.
Serve warm with toasted Bouquet slices. Or as a side dish..
 
 
 10/19/2021
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