Eggplant Fries Recipe

Perhaps you have a bunch of eggplants and do not know what to do with them. Well, you can choose to make a very nutritious meal with them or make eggplant fries, with tends to be very mouth-watering. Many people do not like the taste of the eggplants, but there are different ways you can prepare the eggplant, and it turns into one of your favorite meals. If you are wondering about how to make fried eggplant, ensure to follow these easy steps, and you will enjoy the results.

Ingredients

• Two large eggplants
• Vegetable oil for deep frying
• Marinara sauce:It gives the fried eggplants a unique taste when served together
• One tablespoon of vanilla essence: It gives the eggplant that vanilla essence making it taste even better. This might help those who do not like the eggplant taste, as it helps to enhance the taste with a taste of vanilla, making it easy to enjoy the fried eggplant
• ½ cup corn flour: It is used to make the eggplant crispy and helps the egg and all other ingredients stick on the eggplant better.
• Three lightly beaten eggs: The eggs help adhere the panko to the eggplant slices and make them taste better.

Spices

The different spices used help to make the eggplant taste better. You can use different spices that you feel would make your fried eggplants taste better.

• One tablespoon paprika
• Two tablespoons of garlic powder
• One tablespoon of black pepper
• One tablespoon of cayenne pepper
• One tablespoon oregano
• 1 tablespoon thyme
• 2 cups of fresh bread crumbs

The bread crumbs are used to hold all the ingredients and also help in giving the eggplant that crisp taste.

Procedure

Making crispy fried eggplant does not have to be very time-consuming. It only takes less than 30 minutes to prepare it. Follow this procedure, and you can give your family one of the best-fried eggplants.

1. Mix the corn flour, eggs, and other spices, add the bread crumbs with the essence and mix them all with a fork or your hand to form a thick paste, which you will use to coat the eggplants.
2. Cut the eggplants into thick pieces, forming the shape of the fries; this will make it easy for them to absorb the spices and also make it easy for them to cook.
3. Deep the eggplant pieces into the corn flour-egg paste to ensure that they are fully coated with the flour as you shake off the excess flour covering them. Put them in the bread crumbs to have the paste stick, making it hard for the spices and all other ingredients used to come out.
4. Put the coated eggplants into a paper towel to help dry the excess paste and bread crumbs before you start deep frying. This is the best way to fry eggplants as there will be no oil splashing due to the moisture, as they will dry well.
5. Put the oil into the frying pan and heat it until it is very hot. Hot oil forces the moisture out of the eggplant, which helps prevent oil from moving into the eggplant. If the oil isn’t hot enough, or you overcrowd the pan with many pieces of eggplant, oil can soak into your frying eggplant and make a soggy, or greasy.
6. Be prepared to have a lot of bubbles when you deep the eggplants into the hot oil.
7. Slowly deep the eggplants into the hot oil and fry them for one minute until they are golden brown.
8. Slowly remove them from the hot oil and transfer them to a dry paper towel to help absorb the excess cooking oil.
9. Sprinkle salt before serving.
10. You can serve it with the marinara sauce or as desired.

It is important to note that you do not need to peel the skin when making fried eggplants. The eggplant skin tends to be very nutritious, and it is soft, making it easy for it to cook.

When deep-fried, the skin is not noticeable, and therefore you will not even feel it when you are eating the eggplant, as it will be coated with the corn flour and the bread crumbs.

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