What to cook with eggplant

86 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use eggplant. 55 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Italian, Middle Eastern and Mediterranean recipes.

recipes use it: 86
are built around it: 55
median total time: 1 hr 15 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 6

Recipes built around eggplant

With eggplant, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with eggplant

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with eggplant, out of 86 recipes.

Tomato52% of recipes
Olive oil59% of recipes
Garlic71% of recipes
Onion52% of recipes
Parsley35% of recipes
Zucchini14% of recipes
Bell pepper23% of recipes
Lemon26% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 62 recipes that give an amount, the median is 2. Half of them fall between 1 to 2.

Where eggplant shows up

Cuisines

Italian7
Middle Eastern6
Mediterranean6
Moroccan6

Courses

Dinner35
Side21
Appetizer15

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.