| 15th Hussar | 18 Aug 2009 12:37 p.m. PST |
I'm watching Tyler Florence's "Ultimate" and he's making a baked Italian dish, other than Lasagna and it's Rigatoni, sausage, mozzarella and Eggplant. He just cut up the eggplant and sautee'd it, without soaking it in sugar water to get rid of the bitterness. Southern Boy Fo Paw or he knows something I/we don't? |
aecurtis  | 18 Aug 2009 12:41 p.m. PST |
For a "Southern Boy", at least he knows some French. |
| GoodBye | 18 Aug 2009 1:00 p.m. PST |
without soaking it in sugar water to get rid of the We always just salted it in a colender, after slicing, and let it drain into a larger bowl to remove the bitterness. After about 30mins there is black liquid in the bottom bowl, throw that away and the eggplant is ready to do what you will with and no bitterness. Donald~ |
| Jana Wang | 18 Aug 2009 1:03 p.m. PST |
Eggplant isn't always bitter. If you can get small fresh ones they're often ok. But then, if eggplant wasn't bitter it'd have no flavor at all. |
| Crow Bait | 18 Aug 2009 1:58 p.m. PST |
Agree with DRDHauser. Salted in a colender. This is also the way they did it in Greece and Egypt. |
| Boone Doggle | 18 Aug 2009 5:18 p.m. PST |
We eat quite a lot of eggplant/brinjal in Asia and I've never heard of soaking them in sugar water. Haven't even heard that you need to get rid of any bitterness. OTOH, asian brinjal recipes tend to include lots of chilli and spices. |
| 15th Hussar | 18 Aug 2009 6:46 p.m. PST |
Sorry, a bit of sugar WITH (mostly)(Salt…my mistake, but Yeah, never 'eard of just cutting one up and having at it (and this was a big eggplant, not baby). |
 John the OFM  | 18 Aug 2009 8:01 p.m. PST |
Eggplant actually has a flavor???? I never knew! |
| raducci | 19 Aug 2009 4:58 a.m. PST |
An Italian way to deal with the bitterness is this: Peel the eggplants and cut them into quarter-inch slices; salt them and place them between to plates to press out the bitter juices. After 1 to 2 hours rinse them and pat them dry.
As eggplant is a relative f the tobacco plant, they usually are bitter.
Best way of eating them is in the dish Melanzane alla Parmigiana (melanzane is Italian for eggplant) |
 Der Alte Fritz | 24 Aug 2009 9:37 a.m. PST |
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