eggplant success

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I did it - I used eggplant. Thanks for all your help & tips!

 

I did sort of a take on pt's aubergine & pasta...sort of. I had the

smaller eggplants and cut three of them into good sized chunks - I

did toss them in my strainer with some salt, just for good measure &

I thought it would flavor the meal nicely - I did not peel them. I

sauted in a generous amount of olive oil, an onion & a green pepper

(big chunks), then added the eggplant - cooked them a bit then put

them in a casserole, since I was out of room for the next step. I

then heated in the same pan (I need a bigger saute pan, my boys are

getting bigger and so are their appetites) some garlic & a can of

diced tomatoes & a can of garbanzo beans, adding thyme and basil -

poured and mixed this in with the stuff in the casserole. Topped it

all off with parmesan & matzoh meal (instead of breadcrumbs). Baked

it till it bubbled and the topped looked good.

 

My hubby loved it - which was who I really wanted to please as he

loves eggplant - my younger son loved it too, except the garbonzos,

my older son didn't care much for the eggplant, my two year old

surprised me and ate a fair amount of everything?!

 

I can't wait to try eggplant parmesan after passover - I'll have to

figure out which way to do it, so many ideas....until then I'm going

to try Bobbi's idea of roasting them whole in the oven and mashing

the insides - I think that'll make a nice and different spread for

matzo!!

 

Something new for dinner - hooray!

 

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