Salting Eggplant - Kitchen Wisdom - Martha Stewart

Shira Bocar shows how salting eggplant before you cook it not only improves its flavor and texture, it also allows you to cook with less oil.

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[ahoorakia]

you got to explain that salt is used to get the bitterness out, wasing get rid of extra salt, but you still have dry them before dry them in oil

[Lindapevs]

Salt the aubergine slices first, then rinse them after about 20 minutes. Gets rid of the bitterness

[mrpheebs]

But then wet them again?? I thought they were like mushrooms in that you should never wet them 🤯

[alexiwhite]

Thank you! A recipe said to do this, but I didn't know why.

[civilizeddiva]

Should you salt Asian egg plant? Does Asian egg plant have a bitter flavor?

[premahallikeri]

My mom used very less salt in her cooking from my childhood. I use more as I want the umami taste

[happytx]

My mom always parboiled the eggplant to get rid of the bitterness. Now I want to make eggplant casserole.

[kaydenpat]

Great video. I’ve never salted eggplants before so looking forward to trying this technique.

[DonnaBorooah]

Great that this is a Shira video as I always think of Shira when salting eggplant. It really is worth the extra time and effort.

[familiademers]

Thanks for the tip.

A wonderful thing one can do to help the planet is to save water, so one could open the faucet just enough to rinse, preventing it from coming out in large quantities, one don’t really need to open the entire faucet because it is not to fill a container, pot, or something that needs it.
Opening the faucet just to let enough water to come out while going over a surface (like each side of the slices in this case), trying to clean it from what ever it has on, or even in, makes the situation good to avoid just wasting water that is clean and doesn’t need to go to the sewer system.
Besides, when rinsing something, like a vegetable in this case, one could put a bowl under the faucet to use the falling liquid to water the plants we have, or the lawn, as long as it doesn’t have salt (like in this case) or soap, or anything that could hurt them.
When it has soap and the water is not so dirty, it can be used to give a first rinse to stuff that is very dirty and can’t go that way into a washing machine or to wherever it has to be to be washed.
Water is life, and it is very valuable.