eggplant

This'll make you look like a rock star of a chef. Pick up a copy of The Art of the Perfect Sauce and make this Japanese eggplant and roasted tomato sauce.

Apen the Plant-Powered Protein Cookbook and learn a new favorite. Get an extra serving of greens in by serving this eggplant parmesan with creamed spinach.

Here’s a specially curated list of 30 things to cook in August! We’re nearing the very peak of summer vegetable season — tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, peaches and the like — so go at this fresh spread like the true produce lover you are! Harvest a bounty of greenery, and while you’re at the farmers market, pick up a…

We're going to go out on a limb and say you've probably never had any of these 15 fantastic vegetarian side dishes before. Get cooking!

Make pasta with eggplant for dinner tonight with six of our favorite recipes from all over Italy and the Mediterranean. Get cooking!

Pick up a copy of The Palomar Cookbook, a collection of recipes from the award-winning London restaurant and try their burned eggplant with tahini tonight!

Restaurant veterans Shannon Martinez and Mo Wyse have crafted seriously delicious recipes using no animal products at all. Ever had vegan pastel de choclo?

Join Chicago chefs Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo on a journey to discover the vibrant culinary culture of Macau. Their Chicago-based Macanese restaurant, Fat Rice, draws a crowd that craves this particular style of Portuguese-influenced Asian cuisine, and with their new cookbook, you can try it at home. Brinjal sambal eggplant is the savory, spicy, velvety…

Sicilians call eggplant the “meat of the earth.” The white-fleshed purple-skinned fruit can indeed be prepared like most cutlets. You can fry it, grill it, bake it. You can also stuff it, roast it, puree it, stew it, even pickle it. Depending on where your eggplant hails from, it might be long and skinny or squat and fat.…

Leave it to the grillmasters at Williams-Sonoma to compile a book of summer recipes that are smoky, packed with flavor and charred in all the right places. Brush up on your grilling skills or simply take some inspiration from Grill School's wide array of ideas from all over the world. If you like Middle Eastern food,…

It’s difficult to challenge the traditional french fry — after all, there’s good reason they’ve been around since the late 1600s. Even so, if we’re able to acquire health benefits with our fries on the side, be it a potassium boost or an increase in our daily fiber intake, all the better. From celery root…

Everybody might be talking about the Hearth chef-owner’s bone broth business, but Marco Canora has long been an advocate for healthy cooking. His new book, A Good Food Day, serves as both a recipe guide and a treatise for following simple rules about healthy living. Rule #1: Eggplant is everyone's friend. Here's tangible, delicious proof.  This soup feels decadent…

Everybody might be talking about the Hearth chef-owner’s bone broth business, but Marco Canora has long been an advocate for healthy cooking. His new book, Good Food Day, serves as both a recipe guide and a treatise for following simple rules about healthy living. Rule #1: eggplant is everyone's friend. Here's tangible, delicious proof.  Eggplant's spongelike tendency is its…

Vegan lifestyle blogger Aine Carlin of Pea Soup Eats released a cookbook any animal product-shunner should add to their library immediately. Not vegan? Pick it up anyway — you know your veggie repertoire needs shaking up. From (vegan) soup to (already vegan) nuts, there's something for everyone in Keep It Vegan. Know anyone who likes couscous?…

Hanukkah's around the corner, which means we're frying potato-kale latkes, yes, but also digging into Israeli editor and cookbook author's latest work, Jewish Soul Food. A wide-reaching cuisine with influence from around the world, Jewish food should be a part of every home cook's repertoire. Al-bunduq means “hazelnut” in Arabic, and in Ladino, albondigas are…

London-based writer and cookbook author Hattie Ellis' new book, Honey, combs the globe to find the best recipes starring sweet, natural honey. From sweet to savory, appetizer to dessert, if you're a fan of this versatile sweetener, she has a recipe for you. Food stylist and writer Sunil Vijayker worked on the photographic shoot for…

Renowned chef Mario Batali's new cookbook, America Farm To Table, is a celebration of local farmers around the country. In the book, readers travel from coast to coast with one of the nation's most beloved culinary faces to see how the master uses local fare to everyone's advantage. In this dish, Batali brings us a vegetarian…

Looking for a vegan recipe everyone will love? We're sure your strategy of "just make it without the bacon" will work and everything, but just in case it doesn't, there's Robin Robertson, author of more than 20 healthy living cookbooks. Her latest, Vegan Without Borders, is a trove of nutritious vegan recipes that don't lack…

This vegetable tart uses seasonal vegetables to create a beautiful spiral pattern. The dish is much easier to make than it appears and is sure to be a hit at your next dinner party. The crème fraîche and Dijon add a subtle creaminess to the base of the tart without overpowering the veggies. Be sure…

Corn. Basil. Tomatoes, oh HEAVENS those tomatoes. People, these things are not in season all year long — just because you can technically find them at your supermarket doesn't mean they're going to sing their glorious chorus as loud as they will right now. Check out our 30-recipe ode to sweet, juicy, perfectly ripe end…

I'm always looking for alternatives to mayo when it comes to salads. I've used Greek yogurt and even guacamole to great success, but smoked mashed eggplant pulp is really where it's at when it comes to binding ingredients. This super-simple smoked eggplant fingerling potato salad recipe is great for cookouts because while you've got the…

When the weather heats up, you might actually prefer a hearty eggplant steak to a camp-out-in-your-stomach steak. Or a satisfying eggplant dog instead of the meaty alternative. Sub in this versatile, easy-to-cook vegetable for meat tonight and tell us that burrata with fried eggplant isn't the best vegetarian dish you've had in recent memory. Burrata.…

Chef Chris Schlesinger and Cook's Illustrated executive editor John Willoughby have combined their forces once more with their new cookbook, The Big-Flavor Grill. These truly simple and delicious recipes don't take a lot of time or effort, but are (as they say) big-flavor dishes. Try this easy grilled eggplant recipe on for size.  Eggplant is big in Middle Eastern cuisines,…

The idea for these vegan Japanese eggplant dogs came to me when...alright fine, a bunch of friends were playing with Japanese eggplants. Jousting, making obscene gestures, you know. You don't need to use too much imagination. But it made me want to constructively play with Japanese eggplants. And then pretend I'm a purple unicorn. Roasted…

Oh look, it's Jess observing Meatless Monday. She'll do that. Yeah, I will, and in the spirit of making you even more awesome vegetarian calls than I did last Monday, I bring you a new invention: the Japanese eggplant dog. Japanese eggplants can be found in any Asian market, and in most markets with a…

Sometimes I imagine what my stomach's up to. I'm finished worrying about my liver, especially after the weekend I only just wrapped up. In the winter, when I'm devouring short ribs and bacon-wrapped anything and cheese-stuffed everything, I imagine my stomach converting all that richness into whatever it takes to keep me warm. In the…

With all the amazing meat fresh off the grill during Food Republic's Grilling Month, you may need a veggie or two in there to balance it all out. Cooking Light magazine's new cookbook, Pick Fresh, is a collection of simple preparations of seasonal vegetables. Enjoy seasonal eggplant stuffed with hearty falafel for a steak of a veggie dish you'll…