Eggplants are one of our favorite vegetables. Inexpensive, healthy, and versatile, the lovely eggplant lends itself to countless flavorful dishes and combinations. Here are our favorite eggplant recipes and more helpful information about this interesting and popular vegetable.
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- Last reviewed . Published Sep 23, 2013Dominican eggplant recipes
Here, we share our favorite eggplant recipes with you and include some non-traditional ones at the end if you want to try something new.
Roasted eggplant
Berenjena asada guisada
Eggplant and braised pork
Eggplant and cheeese casserole
Eggplant lasagna
Battered fried eggplant
Rice and eggplant
Ripe plantain boats with eggplant filling
More eggplant recipes
Here, we share our favorite eggplant recipes with you and include some non-traditional ones at the end if you want to try something new.
Christmas vegan eggplant main dish
Grilled eggplant vegan sandwich
Eggplant pita sandwich (Sabich)
How to cook eggplants
In these recipes you will find that we prepare eggplants in almost every possible way of cooking them: roasted, baked, grilled, fried, and stewed. Each method will result in different but equally interesting dishes.
What is your favorite eggplant dish? Tell me in the comments.
What is eggplant?
Eggplant is the fruit of a plant of the same family as tomato and potato. In Spanish, eggplants are almost universally known as berenjenas.
Eggplant is known in English as eggplant (USA, Canada) or aubergine (UK).
Benefits
Eggplant is an inexpensive vegetable that is easy to cook, widely available, and popular in vegan, vegetarian, and keto diets. Eggplant is low in carbohydrates and contains small amounts of phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and iron, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C and folates. It contains a moderate amount of potassium.
How to store
Wipe the skin with a dry paper towel and place the eggplant (uncut) in a plastic bag and store in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator, where it will keep for up to a week. Be sure not to bruise the skin, as bruises tend to be the first spots to go bad.