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Striped Eggplant, Tomato and Cheese

Published on August 25, 2009 By Emily. Updated on August 8, 2020

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Welcome to the newly improved Relishments…where cooking actually happens! Today will hopefully be the first of many recipes and recipe reviews to follow.

victory gardenIn an effort to find new vegetarian recipes to try out, I picked up my husband’s (and I guess now my) copy of The Victory Garden Cookbook by Marian Morash. The book is really useful because each chapter covers a different type of vegetable (everything from asparagus to turnips) and provides a wealth of background information about it ncluding yields, storage and hints.  And of course, there are recipes, centered around the vegetables.  I don’t know how I spent 6 weeks living with Brian without opening this cookbook.  It’s definitely going to be a go-to in my kitchen.

I decided to try making “Red, White and Blue-Black Eggplant”, based on the appetizing photo and the fact that I really like all of the ingredients.  By the time I was finished cooking, I’d made several alterations.

Striped Eggplant, Tomato and Cheese

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Prep Time 1 hr
Cook Time 40 mins
Servings 4 servings

Ingredients
  

  • 1 medium eggplant
  • Salt
  • 2 medium tomatoes sliced thin
  • 10 oz mozzarella cheese cut into thin slices
  • olive oil
  • 2 onions sliced
  • 2 tsp dried basil

Instructions
 

  • Wash the eggplant.  I peeled mine per Brian's request, but the original recipe leaves the skin on, hence the "black-blue" in the original title.  Cut the eggplant into slices about 2" by 4" by 1/2" (this can be done by cutting the eggplant in half width-wise and slicing from there.  Mine were pretty randomly sized, actually)
  • Salt the eggplant (this is exactly what it sounds like: sprinkle salt on the eggplant.  Don't be embarrassed, I had to look it up too).  Place the eggplant in a colander for about half an hour.  This removes the excess liquid from the eggplant.
  • Preheat oven to 375°.
  • Saute the onions in 2 tablespoons of oil for 7-10 minutes, until the onions are soft, but not brown.  Place them on a plate.
  • Use paper towels to pat the eggplant dry.  Brown the eggplant in oil several pieces at a time using the pan from the onions.
  • Lightly oil a 8x8 baking dish.  Put half the onions and 1 tsp dried basil on the bottom of the dish.
  • Layer the eggplant, tomato and cheese slices vertically in the pan, creating visible stripes.
  • When the dish is full (and hopefully you're out of ingredients), cover the stripes with the remainder of the onions and basil.
  • Cover the dish with foil and bake for 40 minutes.

Review:

This recipe was a little less simple to make than I expected.  Besides the fact that the original recipe left me with a tomato and a half too much, it also seemed to require more dishes than should be necessary to create what is actually a pretty simple dish. It’s also a little messy to serve:

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The end result was less pretty than the picture in the book (big surprise, I know) but tasted really good.  It was a mess to serve and at first it appeared that there was a lot of liquid in the bottom of the dish.  However, by the time we’d eaten the entire dish, the amount of juice it seemed more reasonable.  The cheese and basil really helped make the dish for me and the amount of baking time left the eggplant super soft.

Eggplant is one of those vegetables that I’m satisfied for a while after just one meal, but I’d certainly make it again.  This is a handy recipe to make for a group, just double the ingredients and use a 9×12 or larger pan.

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  1. » Early Fall Vegetable Bake says:
    October 30, 2013 at 9:36 pm

    […] I planned on Red, White and Blue Eggplant from the Victory Garden Cookbook or  my variation of Striped Eggplant, Tomato and Cheese.  But then I got lazy; layering all those ingredients vertically seemed like more work that I was […]

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