Jan 30, 2011

POACHED EGGPLANT SALAD

Eggplants are considered as a low calore vegetable Eggplant is effective in the treatment of high blood cholesterol.Normally how I make eggplant salad is grild and mixed with other vegetables like capsicum.This is a different recipe which gives a great taste to the salad.Parsely gives a beautiful flavour to this salad and I enjoyed it with roti....

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Recipe source -- Tobiascooks.com
INGREDIENTS:---
Eggplants --- 2 large cut in to small cubes
Garlic -- 2 cloves crushed
Vinegar -- 2 tab sp
Parsley -- 1 cup finely chopped(nearly 100 g)
Green chillies -- 2 or accor ding to your taste
Salt --- 1/2 tea sp or according to your taste
Olive oil -- 2 tab sp
METHOD:---
1.Add half salt to eggplant cubes and leave a side for half an hour
2. Heat water in a sauce pan bring to full boil then add eggplant cubes and cook for 3 minutes.
3.Remove from heat and drain all the water well and keep a side
4. Blend parsley,garlic.green chillies,remaining salt,vinegar and olive oil and blend in to a fine paste.
5.Add this parsley sesoning to eggplant cubes mix gently, cover and leave it like that for couple of hours and serve.
This salad goes to Prathibha s only salads event and event started by Pari
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16 comments:

Saritha said...

Nice salad,never ate eggplant as salad.

chef and her kitchen said...

That is a very nice entry dear..looks yummy..

Kannada Cuisine said...

This is cool..eggplant in a pesto like sauce.. love it

kitchen queen said...

lovely innovative recipe.

Prema said...

really an unique recipe,luks delicious...

Unknown said...

Salad with brinjal that sounds intersting, looks tempting too

CurryLeaf said...

I too have tried poached eggplant salad and had loved it.Yours look excellent Rekha.I also will be posting another type of eggplant salad for the same event.

Aruna Manikandan said...

looks delicious and very tempting......

Chitra said...

New to me.Must be yummy :)

Priya Suresh said...

Very interesting salad, thanks for sharing..

Pavani said...

Very interesting way of cooking eggplant. Have to try.

Anu said...

Super salad..looks so delicious..

Unknown said...

thats an interesting salad..looks yum!

aipi said...

Surely delicious! A healthy treat…


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Raks said...

Wow,love this recipe a lot,I am just drooling this!

tobiascooks! said...

I am glad you cooked it and you liked it. I am very fond of this way of preparation and like the fresh taste of this salad a lot.