Eggplant casserole in the oven

With such miracle vegetables, we don't need meat! Ripe vegetables with savory cheese, baked with garlic until golden brown - this is a great alternative to high-calorie protein from meat. You can serve the dish both as a side dish and as an independent second.

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Composition / ingredients

Servings:

Eggplant

300

Tomatoes

200

Garlic

Cheese

100

Vegetable oil

Salt

to taste

Ground hot pepper

to taste

Translation table of volumetric measures

Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe

By weight of the composition:

Proteins 20 % 4 g

Fats 55 % 11 g

Carbohydrates 25 % 5 g

127 kcal

GI: 100 / 0 / 0

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 40 min

Step 1:
How to make an eggplant casserole in the oven? Wash the tomato, remove the stalk by cutting it in half.
Step 2:
Cut the tomato into half rings.
Step 3:
Wash the young eggplants. Cut off about a couple of centimeters of pulp from the side of the stack. You won't need it. And chop the eggplant into thin rings: no more than three millimeters wide.
Step 4:
According to my observations, the most delicious eggplants are those that have such seeds. With them, any dish will be a bomb. If you have too dense eggplants, then you can blanch them before baking (keep them in boiling water) for a couple of minutes, then lower them into ice water for a couple of minutes, or fry them on both sides in a frying pan for a couple of minutes.
Step 5:
Peel the garlic clove and press it to the cutting board with the flat side of the knife. It will be more convenient to work with him this way.
Step 6:
Finely chop the garlic.
Step 7:
Mash the cheese to a state of coarse crumbs. It is convenient to do this with a fork.
Step 8:
Place vegetables and cheese in rows in a baking dish pre-greased with sunflower oil. First eggplant, then tomatoes, a little cheese and garlic.
Step 9:
Alternate rows until you run out of ingredients. Add salt and pepper to taste. And sprinkle with sunflower oil. Bake in the oven at 200 degrees for half an hour. Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. Vegetables should become soft with a beautiful toasted crust.

I advise cutting eggplants into rather thin circles so that they have time to completely soften during cooking.
Or you can just chop the vegetables with a medium cube and mix. Then put it in a mold and sprinkle crumbs from cheese or any other cheese to your taste on top.
Cheese will need high-quality and it is brine. And not a terrible cheese product, which is now sold everywhere under the guise of real cheese.
If the word "melted product" is visible on the package in small print, then it is better not to buy it at all, but to make cheese yourself, at home.
Decorate the casserole with fresh herbs before serving. It will be good to serve white fish (for example, cod, halibut or sea bass for a couple).
This casserole will be good for a light dinner as a main course with a slice of toasted grain bread.
Bon appetit!

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

Any oils are useful only until a certain temperature is reached - the point of smoking, at which the oil begins to burn and toxic substances, including carcinogens, are formed in it. How to determine the roasting temperature and choose the best oil for frying, and which one is better not to use at all, read here .