How to keep eggplants fresh for as long as possible?

Considering how many useful substances are contained in eggplants, and how many delicious dishes can be prepared from them, the question arises: how to keep eggplants for the winter? Is it possible to store eggplants fresh for the winter? Storing eggplants in the light is unacceptable, since in them in sunlight solanine is produced Of course, the most common and most guaranteed way of long-term storage of eggplants is to make homemade preparations from them for the winter: salt with dill, using an amount of salt equal to 2-3 of the weight of the eggplant; cook whole, fill with grated garlic and salt, making longitudinal cuts, and roll into jars with brine; remove the pulp from the eggplant, salt from the inside and, stuffed with chopped garlic, parsley and celery, put tightly in jars, pouring vinegar; cut into cubes, put into jars and pour hot tomato juice almost to the top, after why sterilize the jars and quickly cool; fry in circles in a pan, lay out in layers in jars, alternating with to rolls of carrots, onions, celery roots and parsley, pour over everything with vegetable oil on which the eggplants were fried, sterilize the jars; make eggplant caviar; prepare a winter salad with the addition of other vegetables.