11 Health Benefits of Eggplant | How To Buy & Cook Eggplants

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Today, it’s all about the health benefits of eggplant.

Did you know that eggplants are great to eat everyday? Eggplant nutrition include so many vitamins and minerals such as vitamin C, K, B, calcium, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, and so much more.

Eggplants also have folic acid that is necessary for pregnant women, nursing moms, and senior adults.

Eggplants do have wax, at least when you buy it in some stores. So, you might want to check out my how to make a natural veggie wash video for this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ff1fX6Kzy5E

Today, we're going to make two different eggplant recipes. The first one what we're going to do is we're going to go ahead and cut the ends off the eggplant. And then we're going to slice it and put some kosher salt on it so that we can get some of the moisture out. We're gonna go ahead and just cut these in about a quarter inch slices. eggplant is a very firm plant and when we put it in our calendar and sprinkle it with a little bit of kosher salt, it's going to help remove some of the excess water.

A plant loves to absorb any fluids that you're going to be using in your cooking such as oil, butter, even some vegetable broth https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwmSZVNLb-I&t=8s

For a second recipe which is kind of our appetizer. I've gone ahead and you could use a skillet, I'm using my lodge griddle here, and I have some olive oil and I sauteed some onions, the onions are to flavor the olive oil. And then we're just going to go ahead and lay our eggplant on here and just grill them.

Now that that is nice and ready, we're just gonna