My Favorite Low Carb Italian Eggplant Recipes
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Eggplant is one of those weird vegetables that can be blah or amazing. It can conjure up yuck, cringe, or delicious comfort. Well, you’re here for eggplant recipes so you’re looking for good ideas and these recipes will not disappoint.
The first recipe (fried eggplant) is one from childhood, only it’s keto-fied. You can, however, replace what I use for breadcrumbs (pork panko) and you will achieve the same thing. It was such a treat growing up and disappeared fast.
Once you have this fried eggplant down, you can make eggplant parmesan or eggplant lasagna. I added pepperoni to the eggplant parmesan, but you can make it your own.
- Keto Fried Eggplant – The staple to several great eggplant dishes, but great alone.
- Eggplant Parmesan with Pepperoni – Surprise with the addition of pepperoni.
- Sausage Stuffed Eggplant – Just dig in and enjoy the comfort.
These Italian Eggplant Recipes are fun and not hard, although they look it. My favorite is probably the eggplant lasagna, an idea I got from a local Italian restaurant. Both of these recipes use ricotta cheese, mozzarella and who doesn’t love these ingredients, which scream comfort food.
Eggplant Soups
Now that you’ve seen some sort of traditional type eggplant recipes, here are two eggplant soup recipes. Yes, this makes 8 recipes, so consider it a bonus. I have to ask myself why haven’t I made these soups more often.
- Sausage Eggplant Soup – a soup I created after a Farmer’s Market bounty.
- Creamy Roasted Eggplant Tomato Soup – made due to another accidental Farmer’s Market haul of tomatoes, eggplant and bell pepper. Heavy cream smooths it all out.
Vegetarian Options
The Italian Sausage Eggplant Soup CAN be made without sausage. It’s good on it’s own if you want a vegetarian option.
The Creamy Tomato Eggplant Soup can be made vegan if you exchange the heavy cream with coconut milk.
