How To Remove Bitterness From Eggplant

Dean Rouseberg Author: Dean Rouseberg Time for reading: ~1 minutes Last Updated: August 08, 2022
How To Remove Bitterness From Eggplant

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Eggplant is a very popular vegetable. It is boiled, fried, baked, caviar is cooked, stewed. Eggplant is a component of many first and second courses, snacks.

 
 

How to soak eggplant for bitterness

Eggplant is a very popular vegetable. It is boiled, fried, baked, caviar is cooked, stewed. Eggplant is a component of many first and second courses, snacks. The only inconvenience when cooking eggplant dishes is that they can be bitter. And this bitterness must be removed before cooking so that the dish itself does not become bitter later.

The main assistant, when removing bitterness from eggplant, will be salt. It will help draw out the bitter substances from the eggplant. Then, just rinse the pieces or slices of eggplant under running water and you can start cooking.

As a rule, the peel, not the pulp, has a bitter taste. Therefore, sometimes it is enough to peel eggplants to get rid of the bitter taste. This can be done if peeling eggplant does not contradict the recipe. In other cases, ordinary salt will help us.

Recipes with blue eggplant

Ingredients:
  • blue eggplant
  • Water
  • Salt
We will need:
  • Knife
  • Colander
  • Bowl

How to remove bitterness from eggplant step by step instructions with photos

Step 1

 

To remove bitterness from eggplant, we need salt, a knife, a bowl, a colander.

Step 2

 

Sometimes you can just peel the eggplant to get rid of the bitterness.

Step 3

 

The wet method of removing bitterness involves soaking chopped eggplant for 30 minutes in salted water (1 tablespoon of salt per 1 liter of water).

Step 4

 

Eggplants float in such water, so press the eggplant slices on top with a saucer.

Step 5

 

After soaking, rinse the eggplant under running water. The eggplant is ready to go.

Step 6

 

For a dry method of removing bitterness, cut the eggplant in half and sprinkle the flesh with salt. Leave for 20 minutes.

Step 7

 

Wash off the salt. The eggplant is ready to go.

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