In article 0>, Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>On Sun 22 Mar 2009 09:50:56p, Goomba told us...
>> Todd wrote:
>>> My latest endeavor was to peal it, salt it for an hour, rinse
>>> the salt off, and plop it into hot olive oil. You could watch
>>> the oil disappear as the eggplant slices sucked every bit of it up.
>>>
>>> What am I doing wrong?
>>
>> yowsa.
>> Ok... salt if you want but NOT for a freakin' hour! I've never known
>> anyone to rinse it but rather pat it dry of any extruded moisture and
>> the salt.
>> Then dip in eggwash and then flour before frying. That's how my dad did
>> his..... Give that a try
>
>That's how my mom made hers, too, Goomba. She often also added a bit of
>cornmeal to the flour.;

Flour/egg/breadcrumbs! (And a bit of curry powder in the flour.)

Also: Fry in bacon grease rather than olive oil -- then you can nibble
the bacon bits while the eggplant cooks. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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