[Sca-cooks] eggplant bitterness was Cooking Turnips - OOP

[Shannon Malone]

This is one of my favorite caponata recipes that I use for dislikers of eggplant:

1 onion, thinly sliced
1 red bell pepper, deveined and chopped
4 garlic cloves: 3 thinly sliced, and 1 finely chopped 3-4 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Salt to taste
5 ripe tomatoes
1/4 jalapeno chile, seeded and minced
Pinch each, cumin, turmeric, ginger, saffron threads  1/4 bulb fennel, diced
sugar to taste
1 or 2 tablespoons brined capers, drained
About 10 green or black Mediterranean olives, pitted and cut into halves
2 tablespoons raisins
Juice of 1 lemon, or to taste
1 tablespoon chopped fresh marjoram and/or parsley

Lightly saute the onion, peppers and sliced garlic in the olive oil until they soften; sprinkle with salt as they cook. Add the tomatoes, jalapeno, cumin, turmeric, ginger, saffron, fennel and sugar; cook for 10 minutes or so, until thickened.

Stir in the capers, olives, raisins and lemon juice. Adjust seasoning with sugar, lemon juice and spices.

Stir in the marjoram and/or parsley and the reserved chopped garlic, taste again for seasoning and set aside to cool.


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On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 11:03:53
 Daniel Myers wrote:
>
>On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 09:43 AM, Martin G. Diehl wrote:
>
>> How about caponata?
>
>
>I made some last night using eggplants and tomatoes from the garden
>(somewhat of a miracle in that the deer and rabbits actually missed two
>ripe tomatoes).
>
>2 small eggplants, diced
>2 roma tomatoes, diced
>1/2 onion, chopped
>1 handful green olives, chopped
>1 Tbsp. capers
>1 clove garlic, minced
>2 Tbsp. sugar
>1/4 cup red wine vinegar
>olive oil
>
>Saute onions in olive oil until translucent (don't let them carmelize)
>and set aside.  Saute eggplant in olive oil until "golden".  Return
>onions, add everything else, and simmer for at least 20 minutes,
>stirring occasionally.  Serve hot or cold as a relish, or dip, or
>whatever.
>
>- Doc
>
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