Eggplant
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Solanum melongena is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae, grown worldwide for its edible fruit, typically used as a vegetable in cooking. It is known by a number of names, including eg
Solanum melongena 24 08 2012
White eggplant compared to two chicken eggs
Illustration of an eggplant (upper picture) in a 1717 manuscript of a work by the thirteenth-century Persian Zakariya al-Qazwini
Illustrations of an eggplant from a possibly fifteenth-century French manuscript of a work by Matthaeus Platearius. The word melonge, below the illustration, has a blue initial M-.
Ratatouille
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Ratatouille is a traditional French vegetable dish originating in the Provence region of southern France, particularly associated with Nice and its surrounding region. It developed within the context
Eggplant
…and the adjacent state of Karnataka also have an eggplant-based vegetarian pilaf called 'vangi bhat'. Eggplant is often stewed, as in the French ratatouille, or deep-fried as in the Italian parmigiana di melanzane, the Turkish karnıyarık, or Turkish, Greek, and Levantine musakka/moussaka, and Middle Eastern…
Ratatouille, in its layered confit byaldi variation, served with a tomato cream sauce
Ratatouille niçoise, served with buckwheat
Ratatouille niçoise with fresh herbs
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