Eggplant and Potato Pastries

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Eggplant is the chameleon of the rootlike world; it absorbs immoderate flavors it is combined with and tin beryllium featured successful each types of cooking styles. Roasting gives it a spot much depth.

Encased successful puff pastry it tin beryllium a elemental snack, an appetizer oregon an elegant make-ahead lunch, particularly erstwhile paired with a crisp cucumber salad.

From Cynthia A. Brown, Smithsonian Gardens acquisition specialist, based connected a look successful "Eggplant," by Ofir Jovani (Sterling Publishing, 2007).

Ingredients

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Servings: 8 pastries

1 ample oregon 2 tiny (1 lb total) eggplants, peeled and chopped into cubes
2 tiny (8 ounces total) potatoes, peeled and chopped into cubes
1 tiny onion, chopped
3 mean cloves garlic, minced
Leaves from 1/2 clump parsley, chopped (1/2 cup)
3 ounces mozzarella cheese, chopped into 8 slices
1 heaping tablespoonful blistery oregon mild curry powder
2 tablespoons olive oil
Salt
Freshly crushed achromatic pepper
1 bundle (17.3 ounces) frozen unbaked puff pastry sheets (2 sheets), defrosted and chopped into 4 adjacent squares each
2 tablespoons sesame seeds
1 ample egg, whisked with a spoon of water, for an ovum wash

Nutritional Facts

Per serving

Calories
430
Fat
29 g
Saturated Fat
8 g
Carbohydrates
36 g
Sodium
250 mg
Cholesterol
5 mg
Protein
9 g
Fiber
4 g
Sugar
3 g

This investigation is an estimation based connected disposable ingredients and this preparation. It should not substitute for a dietitian’s oregon nutritionist’s advice.

From Cynthia A. Brown, Smithsonian Gardens acquisition specialist, based connected a look successful "Eggplant," by Ofir Jovani (Sterling Publishing, 2007).

Tested by Cynthia A. Brown.

Published July 18, 2010

Updated March 13, 2026