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3 excellent ways with eggplant3 excellent ways with eggplant

A member of the nightshade family, eggplant is easy to grow in containers (hello, onsite gardening!) and also easy to incorporate into lots of flavor profiles, from classic Italian to modern Asian and portable wraps.

Tara Fitzpatrick, Editor-in-Chief

February 25, 2019

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Spicy Asian eggplant
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston
A fiery jalapeno-hoisin sauce gives this eggplant dish its oompf (pictured above). Dining Director Garrett Lucas and Sous Chef Evelyn Lopez, with Morrison Healthcare, start with sautéed Chinese eggplant then hit it with the spicy sauce, plus grilled red peppers and onions and a dash of Sriracha.

Eggplant and mushroom stromboli
Eurest, several accounts
The Piccola Italia program features lots of hearty items, like this stromboli that’s packed with antioxidant power of eggplants and the meaty goodness of mushrooms. While stromboli traditionally comes with thinly sliced deli meats, you’d hardly notice they’re missing here.

Pinto bean and eggplant wrap
Friends Academy, Locust Valley, N.Y.
The Flik Independent School Dining team at Friends Academy adds garden-centric menu items throughout the year, and this eggplant wrap puts mashed pinto beans and diced, baked eggplant together in an unexpected way.

About the Author

Tara Fitzpatrick

Editor-in-Chief, FoodService Director

Tara Fitzpatrick is editor-in-chief of FoodService Director. She previously served as senior editor for Food Management magazine.

At the start of her career, Tara was a reporter for the daily newspaper in her hometown of Lorain, Ohio, where she still resides. She holds a journalism degree from Kent State University. She's also a mom, a pretty good home cook and a fan of ghost stories, folklore, architecture, retro recipes, cheese of all kinds and cats of all kinds.

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