How to Make Grilled Eggplant

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Enjoy some eggplant at your next barbecue. If there's any left over, blend it with a little lemon, garlic, and salt and you've got a tasty baba ghanoush.

To complete this How-To you will need:

A grill
A steel brush
A clean cloth
Vegetable oil
A pastry brush
Eggplant
Salt
A male eggplant (optional)

Step 1: Clean the grill

Clean the grill. For a charcoal grill, light some coals; with a gas grill, set it on high and close the lid. After about 20 minutes, let the grill cool. Then scrape off the burnt-on bits with a steel brush, and end by wiping down the grill with a clean cloth soaked in vegetable oil.

Step 2: Heat the grill

Heat a gas or electric grill to medium. If it's a charcoal grill, wait until the coals are ash-colored.

Step 3: Cut the eggplant

Rinse the eggplant and then cut it in half lengthwise. If it's large, cut it like you would a loaf of bread, into half-inch thick slices.

Tip: Some cooks swear by the fact that "male" eggplants are less bitter than "female" eggplants. To find a male, look at the indentation at the bottom; if it's shallow and round, it's male. A deep, dash-shaped dent indicates a female.

Step 4: Salt it

Salt the eggplant halves or slices and let them drain in a colander for 20 minutes; the salt removes the eggplant's bitterness. Then rinse off the salt and pat very dry with paper towels.

Step 5: Brush with oil

Brush the eggplant generously with vegetable oil on all sides and salt to taste.

Step 6: Grill it

Grill until tender, turning occasionally, from six to 12 minutes, depending on the thickness of the slices.

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[slylink690]

What The Hell!!!

EggPlants Are Furits!!!

Tomatos Are Fruits!!!

What Other Vegetable That I Know Of Is A Fruit!!!

TELL ME!!!

[TheSeriousbusiness]

I don't understand? Why don't you just unsubscribe?

[ERdept66]

Rule of life:  Males are always less bitter than females.

[shiweiooi]

@slylink690 avocado..

[samantha3865]

@slylink690 cucombers are fruit

[familiee123]

Fucking ads! >.<

[krusokat]

@slylink690 i want to penetrate you :å

[ProudMuslim567]

@slylink690 Paprika,Tomatoes and Pumpkin,all of them are fruits!

Eggplant is a berry,and not a fruit! ;)

[bigredsled67]

I wanted to say "Thank You" for your guide on this.I am currently growing eggplant- how do you know when to pick them? Thanks!

[ecevizci]

these are the worst eggplants i ve ever seen, too big to make grills and some nice dinner. this big eggplant is always bitter

[wontonma]

what do you mean a male eggplant

[wafaatorrico]

female and male eggplant???????