If you've spied eggplants at the farmers market labeled Italian and Japanese you should try cooking with both of these ...

This Japanese Eggplant recipe is a quick-cooking, deeply satisfying vegetable side dish served with Black Garlic–Tahini Dressing. It’s ready in just 30 minutes.

But just last week I saw a pile of purple and white streaked Japanese eggplant. And at the next farmer’s stand, I spotted bulbous fat purple Italian eggplant.

This week's look at what's new, bountiful or mysterious in the produce aisles. Japanese eggplants are a longer, thinner variation of the common dark purple type but with thinner skin, smoother ...

Meanwhile, to make the sesame soy sauce, grind the toasted white sesame seeds to a grainy paste in a food processor, spice grinder or traditional Japanese tool called a suribachi.

Graffiti Eggplant With fewer seeds, a teardrop shape, and speckled white and purple skin (reminiscent of, well, graffiti), graffiti eggplants are sweet and creamy when cooked.

Dengaku is a classic Japanese miso glaze often brushed over tofu, konjaku and eggplant; the latter, nasu dengaku, is the inspiration for this rice bowl.

Fast-forward a few decades and witness the rise of Asian eggplants. Tiny green Thai eggplants, long slender Japanese eggplants in every shade of purple, white eggplant, eggplants striped in purple ...

Before you whip up some eggplant parm or baba ghanoush, find out if the eggplant you’re about to use is actually a fruit or a vegetable.

Recipe for easy vegetable tempura using Japanese eggplants. This quick eggplant tempura recipe uses panko flakes.