Meal Prep Misadventures: Butter-fried Eggplant

Meal prep involves BULK. Lots of stuff. I cooked an entire giant punnet of sliced mushrooms to accent my meals and this is another accent for flavour and texture.

There was so much stuff to do that I had to draft @triddin to do some of the cooking for me, and this is the one that he helped with.

Instruments

• Favourite frying instruments and stirrer
• Sharp knife
• Large bowl

Ingredients

• Eggplant(s)
• Butter
• Water and salt for the soaking stage

Instructions

• Slice and dice your eggplants
• Add salt to water in your bowl
• Place the cubes in your salt water to soak

This removes some bitterness from the eggplant. I was told once that they could be toxic if you don't do this, but I later learned that some people like those bitter bitter eggplants and just cook them without soaking.

• soak for up to five hours, drain carefully
• melt butter in frying instrument and fry up the cubes.

These also have the potential to get monotonous en masse, so use for augmenting meals rather than a staple.