I'm not sure whether this dish has been created before, but through an experiment today I came up with some really tasty low-carb "french fries".

I cut up an egglpant into strips (like fries), dusted the strips in some seasoned soy flour, then I pan fried them until they were brown and crisp on each side. You have to turn them over a couple times, but they certainly were worth it! My husband actually thought they were french fries when he saw them. lol

When I have cooked eggplant in the past, it could get bitter. Did you have any issues with that?

No, it didn't seem bitter to me. I wonder if the bitterness you speak of is because of the variety of eggplant you used. I used the regular purple variety for the fries, but a tip I always follow is to buy young eggplants. These are the thinner, smaller ones ... they taste better and have better texture. Of course where I live, eggplant exists in abundance so I can pick and choose which ones I want.

I wonder if zucchini would work for this?

Zucchini can work, pennick, if you slice it correctly, try to get the excess water out of it, and then fry the crap out of it. I prefer to coat the 'zucchini fries' in parmesan and fry in peanut oil.

I've made jicama fries before and they turned out pretty well. I think the texture may be similar to potato.

I do something similar with swede/rutabaga...yum!

I made something similar to these last night and they were SOOOOOO good!!!

Slice up an eggplant and peel it

Dip in egg

Dip that in a plate of parmesan cheese, and spices (whatever you like - dont use to much salt)

Then throw in a pan with hot olive oil

Cook until crispy!

Ketchup or ranch go good with these!

This parmesan-fried eggplant looks sooo yummmyyy!
For egglpant not to taste bitter: salt (use plenty of sea salt) the slices and let them strain for 30 min. Rinse excess salt, dry and proceed with your recipe.

I was about to offer the tip to salt them to get the bitterness out, but karouka beat me to it....it really does work! I always just used regular table salt.

must say sounds good. i am going to have to try this.