Fried and Baked Eggplant (inspired by Eggplant Parm)

[Guest guest]

These were so yummy! Thought I'd share w/ you all as eggplants are

all over the place (at least in upstate NY!)

 

I didn't measure much, but this is what I did:

 

Ingredients:

1 eggplant

2 T enerG egg replacer mixed w/ 4 T warm water

splash of rice milk

gf all purpose flour (maybe 1 cup?)

crushed crispy rice cereal (maybe 1/2 cup?)

pinches of Italian seasonings and basil

oil for quick frying

marinara sauce for serving (or eat them as a crispy snack w/out!)

 

Peel one eggplant and cut into THIN slices (the thinnest ones came out

best), put them on paper towels to absorb the moisture and sprinkle a

little salt on top as well...

 

Mix enerG egg replacer (2 T w/ 4 T warm water)

with a splash of rice milk milk in one bowl

 

Mix a gf all purpose flour mix (mine contains millet flour, sorghum

flour, br. rice flour and potato starch) w/ a pinch of Italian

seasonings and basil, along w/ some crushed crispy rice cereal in

another bowl

 

Heat up some oil in a skillet (I used sunflower oil)

 

Dip the eggplant into the flour mix FIRST, egg/milk sub mix 2nd, then

into the pan to fry for a few minute (flipping 1x, then place them on

a cookie sheet to be baked in the oven for about 20 minutes on 350.

 

I fried them quickly to give them a crispy taste, but most of the

cooking is done in the oven. (You could also *just* fry them and eat

w/out baking--they tasted yummy right out of the skillet as well!)

Also, dipping the eggplant in the wet mix just b/4 putting them into

the skillet for frying worked best for me, otherwise the skillet got

all full of flour which burned up and made a smoky mess!

 

I served it w/ a marinara sauce I made (any kind would work), and they

were sooo yummy! The thinner they were, the crispier they came out!

Soooo delicious! The mushier ones were good too, but I loved the

crisp ones... I'm sure they would be good w/ a soy cheese as well, but

we are sf--and I didn't feel like I was missing out!!

 

Enjoy!

 

Lauren