Eggplants

It’s a bright chunky stew made with eggplants, zucchini, red and yellow peppers, lots of tomatoes, onions and garlic and it’s seasoned with seasoned with paprika and lots of fresh basil, parsley and herbs de Provence.

Wednesday's market at Crouch saw dozens of Londoners line up to take leafy greens, kale, and vegetable seedlings for them to grow their own tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, and more.

And it’s a treat to take fairy tale eggplants and use them in place of the big boys in Hetty Lui McKinnon’s recipe for charred eggplant with burrata and fried capers, a recipe that I could see serving to raves.

The biosynthetic pathway of specific steroidal compounds in nightshade plants (such as potatoes, tomatoes and eggplants) starts with cholesterol.

Whimsical statues of eggplants and peppers sprouted outside a visitor center that bustled each spring, when Israelis flock to see carpeting the fields.

A heap of purple eggplants on the island, a loaf of bread by the coffee maker, or a cluster of tomatoes near the stove adds a welcoming, lively touch.

All species of nicotiana are in the nightshade family and, like their relatives, tomatoes, eggplants and peppers, they demand a rich, warm soil in the sun.

On the rooftop of a Singapore shopping mall, a sprawling patch of eggplants, rosemary, bananas and papayas stand in colourful contrast to the grey skyscrapers of the city-state’s business district.

Rwanda's horticulture exports are dominated by onion, fresh beans, fresh peas, tomato, cabbage, carrots, cucumber, eggplants, French bean, pepper and mushrooms.

Yeeros/kebabs & aubergine/eggplants happy to be out of spotlight.

In SA we call them brinjals; in British English they’re referred to as aubergines; in North America and Australia they’re called eggplants; the Italians call them melanzana; and the Greeks melitzána.

The eggplants will absorb less oil when baked rather than fried.

They include tomatoes, eggplants, potatoes, paprika, and peppers.

Eggplants can also be battered before deep-frying and served with a sauce made of tahini and tamarind.

Four years should separate successive crops of eggplants to reduce pest pressure.

It is during this time of Arab invasions that many staples of today’s Calabrian cuisine came into fashion: citrus fruits and eggplants for example.

Many vegetables are stuffed, most typically green peppers (biber dolması), eggplants, tomatoes, or zucchini /courgettes (kabak dolması), vine leaves (yaprak dolması).

The eggplant has a long history of taxonomic confusion with the scarlet and Ethiopian eggplants, known as gilo and nakati, and described by Linnaeus as S. aethiopicum.

These are Indian eggplants.