French Fried Eggplant with Honey Drizzle
I’ve been researching the use of honey in Spanish cooking, since I was reminded that Spanish cuisine is so complex with many influences. For example, did you know that the Moors (Muslims from Africa) and the Jewish population both held huge sway over how Spanish cuisine developed? In fact, the combination of sweet and savory flows directly from those cultures.
So, today’s recipe mixes savory with sweet, french fried eggplant with a honey drizzle. Once you have tried this recipe, I suggest you try different vegetables with different honeys and see which you like. In this recipe, we suggest our Orange Blossom Honey as the drizzle. But, we think Wildflower Honey would be nice, too.
Health Benefits of Egg Plant
As many of our readers know, I read articles from care2.com daily. Here is a great post on 8 excellent reasons to eat eggplant from their website. Personally, I eat eggplant because it tastes so good (Maybe that’s why we grow eggplants in our container garden every year, eh?).
The Recipe
Ingredients
- One organic eggplant cleaned and sliced into 1/2 in thick rounds
- 2 cups of organic milk
- 2 cups of flour seasoned to taste with salt, pepper, cayenne, and paprika (Try gluten free)
- Organic Olive or Peanut Oil
- Bee Wild Orange Blossom or Wildflower Honey
Instructions
- Soak eggplant in milk for a couple of hours.
- Heat 1/2" to 3/4" oil in a cast iron skillet or frying pan on medium high.
- Put seasoned flour on a plate.
- Flour both sides of eggplant and shake off the excess.
- Fry eggplant in oil until golden brown.
- Remove from oil and set on paper towel to absorb excess oil.
- Place eggplant on serving platter, sprinkle with finish salt, and drizzle with honey.
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