I was going through my photos and I found these photos of eggplant croquettes that I did not get around to posting when I made them a few weeks ago. Fresh local eggplants were still at the farmers market and I was looking for recipes to use them in. In particular I had been looking for a recipe for eggplant fritters as I had recently enjoyed corn fritters and zucchini fritters. I came across this tasty looking post on eggplant croquettes. They turned out pretty good though I had to handle them carefully when frying them as they wanted to come apart. I topped the some of the eggplant croquettes with a simple roasted red pepper sauce and some with marinara sauce that I had in my freezer.
The roasted red pepper sauce was just a roasted red pepper, a clove of garlic, some parsley, salt and pepper processed in a food processor.
Eggplant Croquettes
ingredients
- 1 medium eggplant (sliced into 1/4 inch thick slices)
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs
- 2 cloves garlic
- 1/4 cup parmigiano reggiano
- 1 tablespoon parsley (chopped)
- salt and pepper to taste
- 1 egg (slightly beaten)
- 1 cup bread crumbs
- 3 tablespoons oil
- marinara sauce to taste
- roasted red pepper sauce to taste
directions
- Broil the eggplant until golden brown on both sides, about 7 minutes per side.
- Let it cool and remove the skin.
- Place the eggplant, bread crumbs, garlic, parmigiano reggiano, parsley, salt and pepper in a food processor and process.
- Grab a small handful of the mixture and form a patty.
- Dip the patty into the egg and then in the bread crumbs to coat.
- Heat the oil in a pan.
- Fry the patty until golden brown on both sides, about 1-3 minutes per side.
- Repeat step 4 through 7 until you have used up all of the mixture.
Your timing is impeccable! I’ve got three eggplants in this morning’s CSA box and was blog surfing looking for inspiration…
I never thought to make croquettes out of eggplant…they look great. perhaps refrigerating them (like crab cakes) would help hold them?
This looks mighty good!! Love eggplant! Have to give this a try!!
Nice picture!
These look very tasty! And the presentation is wonderful as well.
Those look tasty and love the plate! I am a sucker for plates, unfortunately I have no room to store any more!
Looks yum 🙂
I like croquettes but not really a fan of eggplant.
Oh my goodness Kevin!!! I must make that. Eggplant lovers always appreciate finding a marvelous looking recipe. This looks like a keeper. Lovely pictures.
i absolutely LOVE your foodblog…such beautiful and creative presentation and recipes…and a great camera! if you came from “boring” meals, as you say…you sure did pull a 180! everything looks fabulous…i’m definitely adding this to my blog’s links!
Egg plant croquettes! I was just wondering what to do with all these egg plants. Thanks
wow – those look amazing. I love anything eggplant
How many did this yield?
Allie: This will make enough for 4 light appetizer servings or 2 light meal sized servings.
This was amazing! Made as directed and doubled. Fantastic dish! Saving for weekly meal – thank you!