Appears in Cook's Illustrated July/August 2008
This sweet and sour eggplant relish from Sicily provides a great complement to meat or fish—but not if the vegetables are mushy and the flavors out of balance.
For a balanced and boldly flavored caponata recipe with eggplant that that didn’t turn to oil-soaked mush, we found that salting and microwaving the eggplant sufficiently dried it out. Adding tomatoes, along with V8 juice, at the end of coo...