I have always seen egg plant (scary food) but never darned to touch let alone buy it. It's this dark purple odd shaped vegetable I see in the produce aisle. I never saw people grab or put this purple thing into their cart, couldn't figure out why grocery stores even stock fresh vegetable and fruit that people just don't buy. Want to know a secret people actually buy egg plant...who knew....not me that is for sure.
Trix and Four haven't had it either but we grabbed it decided to make it. We brought this purple demon home and cut it into slices covered with organic butter than salt and pepper baked a cookie sheet of them. We had few left tried them on grill, but Trex and Four forgot(they were in charge of grill) burned them. It was surprisingly really good tasting to me. I was a little disappointed that the middle was softer and not crispier like the purple skin. I was bugged and thought there as to be way I can make the middle crispier right?
This is what I tried.
Slice the Egg Plant (not good job very uneven)
Dip in egg that had salt and pepper in it
Coated in Coconut Flour
Placed on Pizza Stone to cook for 20 minutes at 350 degrees
Didn't not turn out well, tasted awful. Needless to say my attempt was a failure but at least Trex was out of town and didn't try it. Though I did another experiment with cutting egg plant into little cubes putting than drying it off with paper towel. Putting it in hot oil to try to deep fry in my own way I guess. When that didn't work the way I hoped I tried than baking the already extremely oily egg plant. Wait it gets better I packed that to take on our four day vacation. It looked really bad, I should have taken picture. I tried it it was awful and I couldn't eat more than little bite of it. Trex on the other hand ate small serving and said it didn't taste to bad. I think he was being overly nice trying to spare my feelings. I don't think the egg plant is meant to be crispy and I'm done trying. Live and Learn.
Slice the Egg Plant (not good job very uneven)
Dip in egg that had salt and pepper in it
Coated in Coconut Flour
Placed on Pizza Stone to cook for 20 minutes at 350 degrees
Didn't not turn out well, tasted awful. Needless to say my attempt was a failure but at least Trex was out of town and didn't try it. Though I did another experiment with cutting egg plant into little cubes putting than drying it off with paper towel. Putting it in hot oil to try to deep fry in my own way I guess. When that didn't work the way I hoped I tried than baking the already extremely oily egg plant. Wait it gets better I packed that to take on our four day vacation. It looked really bad, I should have taken picture. I tried it it was awful and I couldn't eat more than little bite of it. Trex on the other hand ate small serving and said it didn't taste to bad. I think he was being overly nice trying to spare my feelings. I don't think the egg plant is meant to be crispy and I'm done trying. Live and Learn.
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| Before I cooked. I didn't cut the egg plant every evenly either |
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| This plant looks pretty sad compared to other meals I have made. Need more vegetables |
We like eggplant roasted in the oven along side zucchini and yellow squash. Cut into strips, lightly salted and spritzed with oil, then and roasted at 375 till tender.
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