If you love eggplant, you need to try this eggplant recipe: Eggplant Caponata AKA Caponata Sicilian. This eggplant recipe is one of Sicily’s classic dishes and for good reason! It’s a vegetarian eggplant salad–more like a relish, really–made of eggplant, onions, bell pepper, celery and tomatoes with briny olives and capers.
Learn how to make eggplant caponata with this easy eggplant recipe:
▢1 large eggplant 1 ¼ lb or so, cut into 1-inch cubes
▢Kosher salt
▢Extra virgin olive oil I used Private Reserve EVOO
▢1 yellow onion chopped
▢1 red bell pepper cored and chopped
▢2 small celery stalks thinly sliced
▢Black pepper
▢1 cup crushed tomatoes
▢2 tbsp capers
▢¼ cup pitted green olives roughly chopped
▢¼ cup raisins
▢2 teaspoons honey more to your liking
▢1 bay leaf
▢¼ tsp to ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
▢1/4 cup red wine vinegar
▢¼ cup dry white wine
▢2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
▢2 tbsp chopped fresh mint
1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Season the eggplant cubes with salt (if you have the time, set it aside in a colander to sweat out its bitterness for about 20 or 30 minutes, while you prepare the remaining ingredients. Pat dry with paper towel).
3. Place the seasoned eggplant cubes on a sheet pan, add a generous drizzle of extra virgin olive oil (about 3 tablespoons or so) and toss to coat. Roast the eggplant in the heated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until browned.
4. Heat 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a large skillet. Add the onions, bell pepper, and celery. Season with a pinch of kosher salt and black pepper. Cook for about 5 to 7 minutes, tossing regularly until softened.
5. Add the tomatoes, capers, olives, raisins, honey, bay leaf and crushed pepper flakes. Pour in the vinegar and white wine. Stir to combine. Simmer on medium-low heat for 10 minutes.
6. Stir in the roasted eggplant and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes in the sauce. Finish with fresh parsley and mint.
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Learn how to make eggplant caponata with this easy eggplant recipe:
▢1 large eggplant 1 ¼ lb or so, cut into 1-inch cubes
▢Kosher salt
▢Extra virgin olive oil I used Private Reserve EVOO
▢1 yellow onion chopped
▢1 red bell pepper cored and chopped
▢2 small celery stalks thinly sliced
▢Black pepper
▢1 cup crushed tomatoes
▢2 tbsp capers
▢¼ cup pitted green olives roughly chopped
▢¼ cup raisins
▢2 teaspoons honey more to your liking
▢1 bay leaf
▢¼ tsp to ½ tsp crushed red pepper flakes
▢1/4 cup red wine vinegar
▢¼ cup dry white wine
▢2 tbsp chopped fresh parsley
▢2 tbsp chopped fresh mint
1. Heat the oven to 400 degrees F.
2. Season the eggplant cubes with salt (if you have the time, set it aside in a colander to sweat out its bitterness for about 20 or 30 minutes, while you prepare the remaining ingredients. Pat dry with paper towel).
3. Place the seasoned eggplant cubes on a sheet pan, add a generous drizzle of extra virgin olive oil (about 3 tablespoons or so) and toss to coat. Roast the eggplant in the heated oven for 25 to 30 minutes or until browned.
4. Heat 2 tablespoons of extra virgin olive oil in a large skillet. Add the onions, bell pepper, and celery. Season with a pinch of kosher salt and black pepper. Cook for about 5 to 7 minutes, tossing regularly until softened.
5. Add the tomatoes, capers, olives, raisins, honey, bay leaf and crushed pepper flakes. Pour in the vinegar and white wine. Stir to combine. Simmer on medium-low heat for 10 minutes.
6. Stir in the roasted eggplant and cook for another 2 to 3 minutes in the sauce. Finish with fresh parsley and mint.
I roast my veggies on the stove blacken the skin peel and add the rest in fry pan but I don’t eat olives so I leave them out. Never added wine or vinegar I’ll have to try that thanks.
This would be lethal over some long grain rice
We are an alcohol free home. What can I sub for the white wine please
Well now I know how to cut and prep a capsicum 🫑 AND an eggplant 🍆, we recently began using eggplants and they are actually delicious!!
Looking at YOU 🫵🤩 dear…they must be packed full of healthy nutrients!! 💃🏻
I'm wondering if you could show us how you make Calzone!
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Gurl Black Power! You make Africa look Great! I live in Bolingbrook IL. Look up our Mayor she is from your part of Africa. Got to get your cookbook. God's Blessings 🙏
I sooooo have to make that!!!! Fun to watch too, had to watch many times.
Not sure what’s tastier…… the beautiful girl or the dish she makes 🤔
This dish looks amazing!!! Love your dress. 👗
What about high blood pressure and salt