Long purple eggplant
Long purple eggplants have elongated violet-skinned fruits, with Violetta lunga 2 providing a dark purple cultivar example.
- Fruit shape
- Elongated
- Cultivar example
- Violetta lunga 2: dark purple
Try it in the kitchen
Cut long eggplants into strips, cook them in a skillet and combine them with tomato and basil for pasta. The length gives you a useful starting shape for strips rather than broad rounds.
Long purple eggplant provides the cooked flesh for Crescenzo Morlando’s polpette recipe in La Cucina Italiana. The baked halves are scooped out, then the flesh is combined with bread, Grana Padano and herbs before shaping the mixture into balls.
Choose the elongated type
Choose long, violet-skinned fruit for the type described here. If the cultivar is named, use that information to refine the choice: the producer’s description of Violetta lunga 2 is a specific example.
