Posted on 09/13/2013 1:19:35 PM PDT by ColdOne
Hiya....I am looking for a quick and easy recipe for Eggplant. A neighbor gave me some and I want to try it.
Optional:
Melt Mozzarella cheese on top
Spread good quality spaghetti sauce over it.
Amazingly good!
Breaded and pan fried. Flavored bread crumbs..
Eggplant casserole
Peel and cube a large eggplant. Boil in water until it looks cooked down, about 20 minutes or so. Drain well, pressing the water out of it. In another bowl, beat two eggs, add one cup of sharp cheddar cheese, one tsp salt, 1 T minced onions. Mix cooled eggplant into mixture and put in buttered casserole dish. Bake 350 for 45 minutes or until browned on top.
Slice it. Dip in in soy sauce. Let it sit in the soy suauce for a while. Apply oil to the grill. Grill it and apply olive oil occasionally. Cook well. Then add Tony’s creole spices or standard spiceing.
BBQ, pepper and salt.
Wow. Sounds great.
Depending on their size, I’ll just cut it up and sautee in olive oil, salt and pepper, etc. Just like one might do with zucchini or onions. Maybe some granulated garlic and red pepper flakes.
I usually do it with the smaller Asian varieties.
Oh, forgot to mention 1 T melted butter mixed in and 10 crushed saltines or Ritz crackers.
Get a ratatouille recipe off the net and add the egg plant. My wife even puts them diced into the pasta tomato sauce (Or Gravy for you non NY’ers.). We buy them all the time, especially the pinkish Italian ones which she fries as described above. They are great in sandwiches with some tomato sauce (Gravy to some) and Italian bread.
The recipe is presented without resizing, providing 6 servings
An easy recipe for an eggplant dish, each piece looks like a piece of lasagna with several layers of eggplant.
Ingredients:
1 medium sized Eggplant
4 cups Seasoned Breadcrumbs
2 Eggs (up to 3)
1 cup milk
2 cups Parmesan cheese
salt and pepper
2 cups Flour
3 cups canola oil (any oil used to fry may be substituted)
4 oz mozzarella
spaghetti sauce
Preparation:
Cut top off eggplant, peel/slice lengthwise about 1/4” wide
layout the eggplant and salt on both sides (minimum 1 hour)
Set up breading station, place flour in 1 bowl, combine breadcrumbs and parmesan cheese in another, beaten eggs, milk, salt and pepper (to taste) in third.
Place oil in fryer and set temp to 350 degrees (just past med heat on stovetop)
Rinse eggplant slices and pat dry
Begin breading, placing slices in flour, then eggwash, then breadcrumb mixture (this process can be done all at once or on the go while frying breaded pieces)
Deep fry breaded eggplant until golden brown on both sides, as eggplant comes out of fryer, lay in square casserole that has been coated with sauce on the bottom. Once in casserole, cover in sauce (or dip in bowl of sauce 1st) then sprinkle Parmesan cheese and cover in mozzarella.
Repeat until all eggplant is gone, using the bricklaying method, placingo first level up and down, and the next level side to side etc. Bake in 350 degree oven for 25-30 minutes or until top level of cheese is golden and bubbling.
Eggplant is like a sponge; it’ll suck-up all the olive oil or butter you sautee it with, so watch it in the pan or it’ll scorch.
Sprinkle with salt and let sit on a rack about an hour to draw out excess water.
Pat dry to remove salt and water.
Brush with barbecue sauce and place on a rack and stick under broiler for two minutes, remove, turn over and stick back under broiler for about a minute.
Eat.
Be careful not to burn your mouth.
Ping
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Always salt the eggplant and let it sit an hour. Then rinse it. If you don’t it will be bitter.
Sorry that should be 1/2 inch slices.
Eggplant
White Bread
Italian Bread Crumbs
Eggs
Butter
Salt
Peel eggplant, slice into 1/4” rounds.
Beat 2 eggs in a bowl as egg-wash
fill another bowl with breadcrumbs.
Heat frying pan to medium heat with enough butter to cover the bottom of the pan 1/8th to 1/4
Dip eggplant slice in egg wash, and then in breadcrumbs, place in pan. Repeat till bottom of pan is covered.
Flip slices when golden brown. Add butter to pan as needed.
When a fork will not stick, the slice is done.
remove to paper towel/plate to briefly rest.
Butter white bread, place eggplant slices on bread for best coverage
Place Tomato slice on top of eggplant slice.
Too much salt.
Enjoy.
Peel Eggplant.
Cut into thin slices.
Throw away.
Steak on grill should be done.
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