[Recipe + Video] Torrejas de Berenjenas (Battered Fried Eggplants)

🧂 Ingredients

• 2 eggplant (large)

  cut into ¼ inch-thick [½ cm] slices
• 2 tablespoons milk (whole or skim)

  (or water)
• 4 tablespoons cornstarch
• 2 egg (large)

  (or 3 medium ones)
• ¼ teaspoon pepper (freshly-cracked, or ground)
• ¾ teaspoon salt
• 1 cup oil for frying

Instructions

• 1 Combine milk (or water), cornstarch, eggs, a pinch of pepper and a teaspoon of
  salt. Mix well. Dip the eggplants in this mixture.
• 2 In a frying pan heat 3 tablespoons of oil. Fry the eggplant slices until they
  turn golden brown, pouring a bit of the batter around them. Add oil by the
  tablespoons whenever needed.
  
  Rest on a paper towel to soak excess oil.
• 3 Use as a side dish, or meat substitute in your lunch, serve freshly fried.

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