Roasted Eggplant Salad with Cilantro and Lime

Yum Makeua Yao

Preparation info
  • Serves

    4

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
Quick & Easy Thai

By Nancie McDermott

Published 2004

  • About

The long, slender Asian varieties of eggplant are ideal for this dish, but a plump globe eggplant will do. This dish is wildly popular all over Southeast Asia, sometimes including pork and fresh shrimp. This is my simple version, often on our supper table since dark purple Asian eggplant adore life in my summer garden, and thrive until the most strident frost has its way. Our only problem is deciding whether to use them in a curry or in this terrific salad. Serve it with lettuce cups or lea