Dairy is high in calcium and good for our bone health. Nightshade plants, including eggplant and tomato, contain alkaloids which are believed to pull calcium from the bones.
It is thought that when eating nightshade plants alone you are taking the calcium out of the bones, but in when eaten with dairy you are putting more than enough calcium back into the equation to balance it out!
This makes not only pairing nightshades with dairy nutritionally wise, but has the added benefit of being just plain delicious!!
My meal tonight was one I had a strong hankerin' for on my way home from class. It is marinated eggplant in a Indian-yogurt curry sauce over rice.
Here is what I did:
I cut up my eggplant into little cubes and set them in a bowl with the diced green onions and a bit of canned roasted tomatoes. In another bowl I combined the marinade ingredients of olive oil, balsamic vinegar, soy sauce, agave nectar, mustard, salt, pepper, garlic, garam marsala, and curry spice. I poured the marinade over the eggplant, added some plain greek yogurt, and let it sit while I made a phone call, tidied the kitchen, cooked the rice, and fed my dog; it sat for maybe 45 minutes. I sauteed up the eggplant in some butter for 10-12 minutes and topped my rice with it. Voila, dinner is served.
Did I measure my ingredients? Sorry, not today. Sometimes I find it the most fun to just throw some ingredients together and see what happens!
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