Substitutes, such as the wheat-based rice substitute, ptitim, were introduced, and versatile vegetables such as eggplant were used as alternatives to meat.
The traditional sugarcane crop is slowly being replaced by other crops, such as bananas (which now supply about 50% of export earnings), eggplant, and flowers.
It comes almost like a caponata-style salad, little chunks of eggplant, sticks of cucumber and cherry tomato halves, marinated in garlic, with crisp-fried basil leaves.
