Eggplants: Recipes and Useful Guide

Dominican eggplant recipes

Here, we share our favorite eggplant recipes with you and include some non-traditional ones at the end if you want to try something new.

Roasted eggplant

Learn how to make Berenjena asada, the amazing Dominican eggplant recipe that we love so much, and you will love it too.

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Berenjena asada guisada

See just how to make Berenjena guisada, our tasty roasted and stewed eggplant dish that can make even the most humble weekday meals special.

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Eggplant and braised pork

Berenjenas guisadas con cerdo is a thick curry-like dish very popular in the Dominican Republic, you will like it for sure.

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Eggplant and cheeese casserole

This wonderful Dominican Pastelón de berenjena filled with cheese, and with a texture similar to mousse, is a wonderful alternative to meat dishes. Served with a salad, you can serve it as a complete meal.

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Eggplant lasagna

If you love eggplant, then this Lasaña de berenjenas filled with juicy ground beef and loaded with melted cheese will delight you.

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Battered fried eggplant

Whether served as a side dish, or as a main dish replacing meat, these wonderful Torrejas de berenjena will be a sensation at the table.

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Rice and eggplant

Locrio de berenjena is a tasty vegetarian version of Dominican locrio. Rich flavors and colorful dish from a very easy recipe.

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Ripe plantain boats with eggplant filling

This is a vegetarian and light version of the traditional Canoas de maduros, with a surprisingly flavorsome eggplant filling, it is absolutely wonderful.

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More eggplant recipes

Here, we share our favorite eggplant recipes with you and include some non-traditional ones at the end if you want to try something new.

Christmas vegan eggplant main dish

For non-meat eaters, this is my vegan option for the holiday main dish. I have served it at home for years for my vegan and vegetarian guests.

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Grilled eggplant vegan sandwich

Not eating meat doesn't mean you can't enjoy amazing and hearty sandwiches, as proof I bring you this lovely roasted eggplant and avocado vegan sandwich.

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Eggplant pita sandwich (Sabich)

This eggplant and egg pita sandwich is an excellent meatless option, tasty and easy to make.

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How to cook eggplants

In these recipes you will find that we prepare eggplants in almost every possible way of cooking them: roasted, baked, grilled, fried, and stewed. Each method will result in different but equally interesting dishes.

What is your favorite eggplant dish? Tell me in the comments.

What is eggplant?

Eggplant is the fruit of a plant of the same family as tomato and potato. In Spanish, eggplants are almost universally known as berenjenas.

Eggplant is known in English as eggplant (USA, Canada) or aubergine (UK).

Benefits

Eggplant is an inexpensive vegetable that is easy to cook, widely available, and popular in vegan, vegetarian, and keto diets. Eggplant is low in carbohydrates and contains small amounts of phosphorus, calcium, magnesium and iron, as well as vitamins A, B1, B2, B3, C and folates. It contains a moderate amount of potassium.

How to store

Wipe the skin with a dry paper towel and place the eggplant (uncut) in a plastic bag and store in the crisper drawer of the refrigerator, where it will keep for up to a week. Be sure not to bruise the skin, as bruises tend to be the first spots to go bad.