I haven't tried this, but it looks ok?......
How To Make Eggplant Bacon
Serves 4 (about 24 pieces)
What You Need
Ingredients
1 medium eggplant (about 1 pound)
1 tablespoon tamari or soy sauce
1 teaspoon smoked paprika
1/2 teaspoon liquid smoke
1/4 cup olive oil
Equipment
ChefÛªs knife
Vegetable peeler
Cutting board
Measuring spoons
Small bowl
Brush
Cast iron skillet
Tongs
Baking sheet
Paper towels
Instructions
Slice the eggplant: Trim the stem from the eggplant. Use a vegetable peeler to make long, thin strips of eggplant by peeling vertically down the length of the eggplant, turning the eggplant a quarter turn every 4 to 5 strips. Discard any strips that are primarily peel. Discard the very seedy innards of the eggplant. Lay the strips out in a single layer on a baking sheet or large cutting board.
Season the eggplant: Combine the tamari or soy sauce, smoked paprika, and liquid smoke in a small bowl. Brush the eggplant slices on one side with the mixture.
Fry the eggplant: Heat the olive oil in a large cast iron skillet over medium-high heat until shimmering, about 5 minutes. Add 6 strips of the eggplant, seasoned-side up, and fry until crispy, 2 minutes per side. Some pieces will brown quickly, and others will have soft spots.
Drain the eggplant bacon: Transfer the bacon to a paper towel-lined baking sheet. Repeat frying the remaining strips. Eat immediately. Eggplant bacon is best eaten the day it is made.
I will let the more daring among us try this.
While growing up, my mother would make the occasional dish consisting of eggplant. To me, at that point of my life, what made the eggplant palatable were the other ingredients such as cheese and spices to cover the eggplant taste. Not much covering the texture though......
To be somewhat fair, there are foods that I found "gross" as a kid but actually kind of like now.
It ain't bacon unless a hog has been committed to the process.
There is a kid's movie coming out in the Fall that will drive kids to starve to death. No joke. The entire concept of the movie is that all food is living, breathing, thinking, human-resembling entities. The items of food want to be chosen by the humans because they don't understand what happens after they are selected. THEN THEY LEARN THE TRUTH! Oh, the horror. Wailing and gnashing of celery stalks.
Saw a preview for this while at a kid's movie last week. (It's OK, I had a kid with me.)
Keep the kids at home. Let this movie die from $0 of ticket sales.
Holy Cow, post: 383793, member: 50 wrote: It ain't bacon unless a hog has been committed to the process.
Like a friend of mine said, "To have barbecue a hog's gotta die."
I like my eggplant two ways
Fried like fried green tomato
Eggplant Parmesan
There is no imitation bacon that will truly substitute for actual bacon.
:bacon::bacon::bacon:
OK, OK , My bad. (I'm with you Harris regarding eggplant consumption.)
I got so sick of reading about KRT vs. PGS my nerves frayed and what little cerebral synapse existed was rapidly in cessation.
ItÛªs becoming the BLM crisis all over again. WhereÛªs Keith?
Eatin' too much eggplant causes dyslexia.
What's that joke about, wrap the eggplant in foil. Add banana leaves, fresh avocado, cilantro, etc. Dig a 2' pit and place the dish in the bottom. Cover with 4" of glowing, hardwood coals. Cover and forget.
Now go for pizza and beer, your family and friends will thank you. It's something like that but, I didn't feel like including the part about the dog poo.
I agree - if it isn't pork, it isn't bacon.
With eggplant. make baba ganoush: http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/eggplant-dip-baba-ghanoush-51121500
I am unable to eat pork due to the Lone Star Tick virus. After about five years of dealing with this issue, I can say with authority that anything that is not pork is not pork. I prefer a black bean burger or mushroom burger to some jive concoction labeled as a pork substitute. I may try the recipe as a different way to eat eggplant without any illusion that it will taste like bacon. Those of you that can eat the real thing should consider yourselves blessed.
As a young lad, we had cattle, dairy cattle and chickens. Our nearest neighbors had turkeys. Eating pork was a rare treat generally only occurring when we were at a church supper or community picnic type of event.
lmbrls: You have my sympathy in more ways than one.
Holy Cow, post: 383797, member: 50 wrote: There is a kid's movie coming out in the Fall that will drive kids to starve to death. No joke. The entire concept of the movie is that all food is living, breathing, thinking, human-resembling entities. The items of food want to be chosen by the humans because they don't understand what happens after they are selected. THEN THEY LEARN THE TRUTH! Oh, the horror. Wailing and gnashing of celery stalks.
Saw a preview for this while at a kid's movie last week. (It's OK, I had a kid with me.)
Keep the kids at home. Let this movie die from $0 of ticket sales.
I am not sure what kids movie this was previewing for, but it is rated R and from Seth Rogan and Jonah Hill. Not suitable for children to say the least.
Holy Cow, post: 383797, member: 50 wrote: There is a kid's movie coming out in the Fall that will drive kids to starve to death. No joke. The entire concept of the movie is that all food is living, breathing, thinking, human-resembling entities. The items of food want to be chosen by the humans because they don't understand what happens after they are selected. THEN THEY LEARN THE TRUTH! Oh, the horror. Wailing and gnashing of celery stalks.
Saw a preview for this while at a kid's movie last week. (It's OK, I had a kid with me.)
Keep the kids at home. Let this movie die from $0 of ticket sales.
I've been taking the grandkids to the movies pretty regularly. The last one was "The Big Friendly Giant" a couple of weeks ago. The next will be "Pete's Dragon" in a week or two. I've seen the ads for the food movie...scares the hell out of me. I'll let their mommy and daddy make that call...
Holy Cow, post: 384013, member: 50 wrote: ..Eating pork was a rare treat generally only occurring when we were at a church supper or community picnic type of event..
"When two or more are gathered in His name, something is gonna die and get cooked." followed by "Lo, there will be women laden with plates of green jello.."
I believe that scripture is in either first or second Condominiums.
Sausage Party turns out to be the name of the R-rated "kids" movie. We were at the current Ice Age movie when we saw this preview. Check out the link to IMDB for more reasons to skip the movie. The very first quote provided which has the Bag of Chips chatting with the Toilet Paper takes it out of the G-rating, that's for sure. A quick click on the Parental Advisory link clarifies several other reasons to leave the kiddies at home. I found this easily only because Salma Hayek was on late night TV last night and they had a short clip of her "character" which turns out to be a lesbian taco.
Holy Cow, post: 384100, member: 50 wrote: ..her "character" which turns out to be a lesbian taco.
some things are just wrong as soon as they open the chute....
lmbrls, post: 384010, member: 6823 wrote: I can say with authority that anything that is not pork is not pork. I prefer a black bean burger or mushroom burger to some jive concoction labeled as a pork substitute. I may try the recipe as a different way to eat eggplant without any illusion that it will taste like bacon. Those of you that can eat the real thing should consider yourselves blessed.
My wife brought home "fat free mayonnaise" once. I had to explained that mayo is, by definition, an emulsification of oil, egg yokes, and an acid. It can't be fat free. Besides, we already had fat free mayonnaise...I call it mustard.
