Aubergine is a vegetable that can be fried, baked and grilled. In the traditional Italian cuisine, the most famous recipes with aubergines are parmigiana, pasta alla Norma and caponata (served with tomato sauce, olives, onions and capers).
Aubergine is an angiosperm plant belonging to the Solanaceae family and is native to East Asia. The edible part is the fruit, which can have many varieties: the most common is the dark purple one with an elongated shape, but there is also a light purple variety with a
round shape.