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The Cartoon Kitchen: Twice-Squeezed Eggplant

Posted by Ed Levine, June 29, 2008 at 12:00 PM

This week's Cartoon Kitchen features Serious Eats' cartoonist in residence Larry Gonick's spin on eggplant. —Ed Levine

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Twice-Squeezed Eggplant

Ingredients

1 Japanese eggplant, sliced very thinly lengthwise
Salt
Olive oil
1 clove garlic, minced
1 tomato, cut into wedges
Oregano

Procedure

1. Heavily salt the eggplant; let sit on paper towels at least 30 minutes. Squeeze out liquid; rinse well.

2. Sauté eggplant in olive oil until tender. Drain on paper towels. Squeeze again to extract oil.

3. In same pan, briefly sauté garlic. Add tomato wedges and a couple pinches oregano. Cook until tomatoes are soft; add eggplant and reheat.

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