How do you fry eggplant without getting soggy?

Do you need to sweat eggplant before frying?

There are tons of great recipes out there, so I won’t trouble you with mine. However, only one of them recommends that you sweat the eggplant before getting started, and to me that’s the one thing you must do when cooking eggplant. Large eggplants have a lot of liquid in them. Green, bilious, bitter liquid.

How do you make eggplant less slimy?

Coat a baking sheet with olive oil cooking spray, or lightly coat the eggplant slices with olive oil. The flesh likes to absorb oil, and too much can make it come out greasy.

Should you soak eggplant in milk?

Soak eggplant slices or cubes in milk for about 30 minutes before cooking. The milk not only tempers the bitterness, but it actually makes for eggplant that is extra creamy, since the vegetable acts like a sponge and soaks up a good amount of milk in its flesh.

Do you have to soak eggplant?

Eggplant works like a sponge, soaking up the milk into the flesh of the fruit. … If you don’t have time to salt or soak your eggplant pieces and just need to cook it quickly, removing the seeds is probably your best choice. Eggplant seeds tend to hold in the majority of the bitterness.

What happens if you dont sweat eggplant?

However, according to Nicholas Clee, author of Don’t Sweat the Aubergine (Short Books, 2005), the varieties of eggplant typically available today don’t have the bitterness that characterized popular varieties of decades ago. He also points out that the salting doesn’t eliminate bitterness; it simply masks it.

How long do I let eggplant sweat?

Sprinkle liberally with kosher salt making sure that all slices of the eggplant are salted on both sides.

1. Let sit for 30 minutes. You will start to see the eggplant “sweat” with beads of water coming out and being drained.
2. Rinse well with water.

What do you eat with fried eggplant?

What to Serve with Eggplant Parmesan

• Antipasto Salad.
• Italian Sausage.
• Meatballs.
• Garlic Bread.
• Gnocchi.
• Grilled Zucchini.
• Roasted Broccolini.
• Fresh Salad with Lemon Vinaigrette.

How do you keep eggplant from being mushy?

To avoid “Soggy Eggplant Syndrome” in your cooked recipes, sprinkle coarse or sea salt on sliced eggplant and let it set for 10 to 20 minutes. Rinse the slices and pat them dry with a paper towel.