Can you cook eggplant without salting it? No need to salt first. Most recipes for eggplant insist you salt it before cooking. ... If you're cooking it in some other way — roasting, grilling, steaming — salting has no effect. And when you are salting eggplant for frying, it takes a...
The thing is, we salt sliced eggplant before cooking because of what the vegetable used to be like. Confused? Allow us to explain. The first time someone ever cooked an eggplant, it was a much different vegetable than the one we're familiar with. Sure, the shape and color and size ...