Eggplant Gratin
Eggplant Gratin

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Eggplant Gratin is one of the most favored of current trending meals in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is appreciated by millions every day. They are fine and they look fantastic. Eggplant Gratin is something that I have loved my entire life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have eggplant gratin using 17 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.

The ingredients needed to make Eggplant Gratin:
  1. Take 5 Eggplant
  2. Prepare 150 grams Melting type cheese
  3. Make ready 1 Dried parsley
  4. Get Deluxe Tomato Sauce:
  5. Take 1/2 Onion
  6. Get 1 Carrot
  7. Prepare 4 clove Garlic
  8. Make ready 1 can Canned whole tomatoes
  9. Prepare 3 tbsp Olive oil
  10. Prepare 1 Bay leaf
  11. Get 1 Consomme soup stock cube
  12. Get 1 dash Salt and pepper
  13. Make ready 2 tbsp White flour
  14. Prepare 100 ml Water
  15. Make ready 100 ml Red wine
  16. Make ready 2 tbsp Ketchup
  17. Get 2 tsp Japanese Worcestershire-style sauce

Place the dishes on a baking sheet. This eggplant gratin could be a side dish for chicken, fish, meat, or even a vegetarian entree served with bread or another starch on the side. Eggplant, known as aubergine in some places, is easy to find, and you can do plenty with it such as making the classic dish moussaka, in which it is layered with ground meat, or you can batter it and deep-fry it for a. This is a modified Provincial Gratin, similar to eggplant parmesan.

Steps to make Eggplant Gratin:
  1. Finely mince the carrot, onion, and garlic. Parboil the carrots for about 5 minutes.
  2. Cut the eggplant into 1 cm thick slices and soak in water to remove any bitterness. Remove the stringy parts from the whole tomatoes and mash them through a sieve to make smooth. You can omit this step if you need to.
  3. Put olive oil and garlic in a cool frying pan and then turn the heat to low.
  4. Once the garlic becomes golden, add the onion and continue cooking. When the onion becomes transparent, add the carrot and continue cooking.
  5. Pour in the red wine and cook off the alcohol. Once the alcohol has cooked off, add the whole tomatoes, consomme, and bay leaf.
  6. Flavor with ketchup and Japanese Worcestershire sauce. Season with salt and pepper, but please remember that the cheese also contains some salt.
  7. Mix the flour with 100 ml of water and add to the pan. Simmer on low heat for 5 minutes. Once it becomes nice and thick, the deluxe tomato sauce is complete.
  8. Heat a frying pan with olive oil and cook both sides of the eggplant slices. Once they have slightly browned, cover with a lid and steam.
  9. When the eggplant slices have cooked, line them up in a heat-resistant dish and coat with lots of tomato sauce. Top with cheese.
  10. Bake in a preheated 250°C oven for 5 minutes while paying attention to the state of the cheese and brownness.
  11. Garnish with dried parsley and it's done!
  12. If you make extra sauce, you can use the leftovers for pizza. It's convenient to have stored in the freezer. This photo shows pizza toast.

Brush both sides of eggplant slices with oil. Place on an ungreased baking sheet. In a large bowl, toss together the eggplant rounds, tomatoes, lemon zest, thyme, garlic, and ¼ cup of olive oil. Most Provençal gratins of eggplant consist simply of alternate layers of precooked eggplant slices and stewed tomato, the surface sprinkled with cheese, or, in some instances, there is only an inte. I have made this dish a few times now, and it is a wonderful light lunch option, or a nice vegetable side dish for roasted or grilled meat.

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