Eggplant
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| 1 | I have just bought my first ever eggplant. I've never even tried one before so I'm not completely sure what to do with it. The vege man said to just slice it and fry in olive oil, but I need some more advise please. datoofairy - 2011-01-12 14:59:00 |
| 2 | This message was deleted. prawn_whiskas - 2011-01-12 15:18:00 |
| 3 | This message was deleted. cookessentials - 2011-01-12 15:28:00 |
| 4 | We like it sliced, floured, egged then crumbed. Fry in oil until golden. Yummmmmmmy. I don't salt the new varieties you buy these days. pickles7 - 2011-01-12 17:10:00 |
| 5 | Thanks very much everyone. I ended up brushing the slices with olive oil, and a light sprinkle of salt, and grilled them in the oven. datoofairy - 2011-01-12 19:25:00 |
| 6 | yes, they do need a dressing. pickles7 - 2011-01-12 19:30:00 |
| 7 | This message was deleted. elliehen - 2011-01-12 19:36:00 |
| 8 | It is very good sliced & grilled with courgette & capsicum and used as a topping for pizza. nauru - 2011-01-12 23:29:00 |
| 9 | I prefer to lightly salt the sliced eggplant and oil it and then cook it in the frypan till lightly charred ie lightly blackened. I prefer to eat eggplant when well cooked and it's very soft to touch in pan ie melt in the mouth feeling. malcovy - 2011-01-13 13:41:00 |
| 10 | I love onions, courgettes, tomatoes, capsicums, eggplant, garlic and cumin seeds and a pinch of ground cumin char grilled on the bbq or done in a frying pan with a little oil. Delicious. Edited by herself at 4:13 pm, Thu 13 Jan herself - 2011-01-13 16:11:00 |
| 11 | our favourite here is to slice the eggplant, then put a layer of eggplant in a greased ovenproof dish (not metal), then a layer of mozzarella cheese, and do this over and over till eggplant is all used up. Then pour a jar of ready made tomato pasta sauce over it and bake for about 20 minutes at around 180. Its really delicious. samboy - 2011-01-14 09:35:00 |
| 12 | eggplant ideas bev00 - 2012-01-14 23:51:00 |
| 13 | Got anything to add yourself.?...bev00.... Edited by pickles7 at 6:31 am, Sun 15 Jan pickles7 - 2012-01-15 06:31:00 |
| 14 | I love roast aubergine - I have a great recipe for Roast Summer vegetable salad that was on the Weight Watchers website and is great either hot or cold. 2 small red onion, cut into thick wedges Preheat oven to 200°C or 180°C fan-forced. Place onion, kumara, capsicum, eggplant and thyme in a large bowl. Add oil and toss well to combine. Season with salt and pepper, then transfer vegetables to two large baking paper-lined baking trays. Bake vegetables for 20 mins. Combine vegetables, spinach and bocconcini in a large bowl. Drizzle with balsamic and serve. Aubergine is also a staple ingredient in moussaka which I'm having for dinner tonight - the rest of the family are having lasagne which on WW is about 9 million points so I have made my own separate moussaka. Love the slices also gridled on the BBQ - it is a fairly bland taste but also good at absorbing other flavours so really good extra virgin olive oil, garlic, thyme, oregano, etc. make all the difference. sarahb5 - 2012-01-15 08:10:00 |
| 15 | The member deleted this message. elliehen - 2012-01-15 13:45:00 |
| 16 | my new creation with this is this: peel eggplant, cook in butter or oil until soft, chill. Then make a pikelet type mix, e.g. flour, milk, beaten egg, baking powder, add salt and some herbs of your choice, when the eggplant is cool drain thoroughly and add to pikelet mix. Make patties, yum, nice with a dollop of sour cream on top. samboy - 2012-01-15 17:27:00 |
| 17 | Sliced into 1cm thick slices, flour, egg, crumb. Pan fry until golden. Top with passata or fresh Italian tomato sauce, mozzarella, grill until bubbly. kate777 - 2012-01-15 19:53:00 |
| 18 | great thread for a bounty of eggplant bev00 - 2013-01-14 23:21:00 |
| 19 | http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/420624/grilled-aubergines Try the above recipe it is my fave, http://www.foodlovers.co.nz/recipes/vegetarian-moussaka.html http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/Eggplant-Zucchi This is also good. ruby19 - 2013-01-15 08:29:00 |
| 20 | There a few very nice recipe's in this blog. Many recipe's use Aubergine. pickles7 - 2013-01-15 08:36:00 |
| 21 | Its nice sliced into rounds and covered with salt,tumeric and sugar, fry until really brown in colour. Quotenondescipt (114 ) 5:56 pm, Tue 19 Oct #3 Quotedarlingmole (227 ) 6:17 pm, Tue 19 Oct #4 Slice eggplant into 1cm rounds. Spread with chutney (I used Barkers olive & sundried tomato) and then roasted for 20 minutes or so. I then crumbled some feta on the top and we had it with a bottle of wine - ym! Quotelofthouse (187 ) 7:10 pm, Tue 19 Oct bev00 - 2013-10-21 23:44:00 |
| 22 | Eggplant rolls with spinach & ricotta 2 aubergines, cut into thin slices lengthways pam.delilah - 2013-10-22 07:51:00 |
| 23 | Serves: 4 Directions pam.delilah - 2013-10-22 07:54:00 |
| 24 | Pam.Delilah, I made something very similar a couple of nights ago. Didn't measure anything, as it was a' what was in the fridge dinner' . Edited by ruby19 at 7:59 am, Tue 22 Oct ruby19 - 2013-10-22 07:59:00 |
| 25 | I'm the only one who loves it in the family. Slice it and add garlic and ginger and fry in oil. Or I just roast slices with other roast veges, but it is very quick to cook. I love the silky texture of it. pig-gal - 2013-10-22 18:12:00 |
| 26 | Love eggplant in a curry, yum. Also make a good dip, Baba Ganoush. Edited by nauru at 9:10 pm, Tue 22 Oct nauru - 2013-10-22 21:09:00 |
| 27 | I cut in half lengthwise, then a diamond pattern into it,and bake in the oven, just before its ready brush with a sauce made of miso, mirin, sake and sugar which has been simmered until sugar melts. The paste lasts in fridge and is yummy on potatoes etc. they're so good! v-tec-chickie - 2013-10-22 21:36:00 |
| 28 | I'm avoiding flour/pasta etc for a bit and I use eggplant as a substitute for pasta - rediscovered my mum's George Foreman grill & I brush slices of eggplant with olive oil and cook them in the grill. Then slice them up and pour the tomato-ey sauce over. Very tasty. Will try Pam.Delilah's rolls next, they sound very yummy. patsprat - 2013-10-23 17:58:00 |
| 29 | This message was deleted. karenz - 2013-10-23 18:17:00 |
| 30 | Keeping for Summer bev00 - 2014-10-23 23:33:00 |
| 31 | pickles7 wrote: sarahb5 - 2014-10-24 18:33:00 |
| 32 | An eggplant roasted whole for 30-40 mins then hollowed out and mushed up with garlic, lemon juice, garlic etc makes really good Baba Ganoush, Jamie Olive has a recipe I use summertime - a middle eastern dip. Greek summer recipes use eggplants quite often cooked with tomatoes, olive oil and herbs, makes a lovely veg casserole. They are quite bland on their own so you need lots of flavourings. Edited by village.green at 9:12 am, Sat 25 Oct village.green - 2014-10-25 09:09:00 |
| 33 | When we have schnitzel (and they are in season) I bread and crumb a few slices for vegetarian daughter. village.green - 2014-10-25 09:10:00 |
| 34 | Lots of lovely recipes in this collection: uli - 2015-10-22 09:54:00 |
| 35 | bump for the new season. uli - 2016-10-20 11:09:00 |
| 36 | Aubergine aubergine aubergine. So much sexier than eggplant........... awoftam - 2016-10-20 19:04:00 |
| 37 | awoftam wrote: samanya - 2016-10-20 19:17:00 |
| 38 | From Sachie's Kitchen..... Eggplant Roasted and Marinated. For the Sauce; 1 tsp dashi powder Preheat oven 180C. Put dashi powder, sugar, soy sauce and sake in a small saucepan with 180mil of water and bring to the boil to dissolve dashi and sugar. Turn off the heat and add the chilli and set aside. Eggplant, chargrilled with miso and cheese Edited by valentino at 2:37 pm, Wed 27 Sep valentino - 2017-09-27 14:36:00 |
| 39 | Moussaka for me. Cook up mince and onions lightly seasoned with salt, pepper and nutmeg. Add beef stock or stock cube. Slice up a couple of potatoes, pat dray, spray plan with oil and fry until brown with a bit of crushed garlic. Layer over mince mixture. Pat dry egg plant and fry off with minced garlic as above. Layer over potato and then add sliced tomatoes (if out of season I use tin of drained cherry tomatoes). Make a cheese sauce and pour over. Bake in a moderate oven for 1 hour. arielbooks - 2017-09-28 06:26:00 |
| 40 | Mmmmm, having never really cooked eggplant before i tried the sliced, floured, egged, crumbed and fried version. I used salt and pepper, paprika, parmesan and panko breadcrumbs, was lovely. Very cheap meal. Next time I would add a few more flavours, more paprika, maybe a bit of chilli. At the moment I can buy a good sized eggplant for $1 and the rest of the ingredients are pretty cheap. dibble35 - 2018-01-13 18:56:00 |
| 41 | bump - 99cents currently... uli - 2018-12-27 18:13:00 |
| 42 | uli wrote: unknowndisorder - 2018-12-27 18:21:00 |
| 43 | $1.99 at countdown a few days ago animal-luva5 - 2018-12-28 11:22:00 |
| 44 | unknowndisorder wrote: uli - 2018-12-28 14:18:00 |
| 45 | bump bev00 - 2019-12-23 22:50:00 |
| 46 | Love aubergines, and have 6 plants fruiting up nicely this year, 3 different varieties. Babaganoush is my dip of choice, and great spread on a good sourdough bread, or with pita bread cut into chips triangles , brushed with oil, a tiny spritz of gr cumin... yum. Slices are good for vegetarians at a BBQ meal - but be sure to use a different BBQ for the grilled vegetables, don't cook it on the meat BBQ if there are vegetarians around (that would be plain rude...). Slices also good crumbed and served like schnitzels, as already mentioned. Then there's Moussaka (and it's cousin, Lasagne if you don't mind being untraditional) and Ratatouille (lovely hot, warm or cold (add a dash of vinegar if serving cold...) And, of course, aubergine in cakes - both the afternoon tea kind (grate and use a courgette recipe with half aubergine, half courgettes - or all aubergines, if you're game!), and the dinnertime savoury type. Yotam Ottolenghi has a great one (well more than one if you Google "aubergine cake ottolenghi") and right in time for Christmas, too!): Aubergines and large brown flats mushrooms roast well, the aubergines in slices as thick as the mushies, and both doused in a good dollop of oil and sprinkled with finely chopped garlic. Again, texturally substantial, and a great meat substitute.... Edited by autumnwinds at 11:58 pm, Mon 23 Dec autumnwinds - 2019-12-23 23:54:00 |
| 47 | Google "Melanzane Parmigiana " which is a baked eggplant dish, similar to lasagne. lidbud - 2019-12-24 17:25:00 |
| 48 | [quote=datoofairy It didnt really have much taste at all, maybe a very faint taste of marrow. lythande1 - 2019-12-25 08:48:00 |
