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Salting Egg Plant
Is it necessary to salt egg plant and wrap in towels like my Italian wife
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"Andie Z" > wrote in message news:4gXQf.651$Rb.244@trndny05... > Is it necessary to salt egg plant and wrap in towels like my Italian wife > does? > > my Italian mother says that it should only be necessary in order to get the bitterness out of those larger eggplants...the smaller (and usually) younger ones tend to be OK and don't need salting the wrapping in towels part...is that to dry them off after washing the salt off? or something else? |
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"Andie Z" > wrote in message news:4gXQf.651$Rb.244@trndny05... > Is it necessary to salt egg plant and wrap in towels like my Italian wife > does? > > For some recipes, yes. For others, no. Got any specifics? |
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On Sun 12 Mar 2006 08:55:40a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it MG?
> > "Andie Z" > wrote in message > news:4gXQf.651$Rb.244@trndny05... >> Is it necessary to salt egg plant and wrap in towels like my Italian >> wife does? >> >> > my Italian mother says that it should only be necessary in order to get > the bitterness out of those larger eggplants...the smaller (and usually) > younger ones tend to be OK and don't need salting I thought part of the reason was specifically to extract some of the moisture. > the wrapping in towels part...is that to dry them off after washing the > salt off? or something else? AFAIK, to dry them off. -- Wayne Boatwright ożo ____________________ BIOYA |
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>Is it necessary to salt egg plant and wrap in towels like my Italian wife
>does? Try your recipe without doing it and find out. My great-grandmother used to salt peeled eggplant slices and place them in a pasta strainer with a plate on top in the sink to drain out the bitterness, then she'd dip them in egg then seasoned breadcrumbs and fry them in olive oil. That was some good stuff. |
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"Andie Z" > wrote in message news:4gXQf.651$Rb.244@trndny05... > Is it necessary to salt egg plant and wrap in towels like my Italian wife > does? > > In my view it is not necessary unless your eggplants are bitter. Some cultivars of eggplant seem to be more bitter than others and those picked later (ie when the seeds are starting to mature or have matured) will tend to be bitter. I grow my own and never salt them. If I have to buy supermarket produce in the off season I still don't salt them and it is very rare that they are bitter. So why not salt them just in case? To keep up a low(ish) salt diet. Some say that salting improves the texture by drawing out some of the water which is supposed to reduce the tendency for them to act like sponges for oil. I avoid this issue by using one of the following methods: - microwave with no oil at all - coat in egg and breadcrumb to keep out the oil when 'wet' frying - when grilling or 'dry' frying, paint with a limted amount of oil and just keep cooking if they get dry, the outside will still brown and the inside will still soften without gallons of oil David |
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