Hi, I am Marie. Today, we’re going to prepare eggplant gratin recipe. Never miss today’s recipe. This is a very simple recipe to try and is one of my family food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit more unique. This will be really delicious. Not to mention, it’s super satisfying.
Eggplant Gratin Recipe
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To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few ingredients. You can cook eggplant gratin using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant Gratin:
- Get 1 large eggplant
- Get 1/2 teaspoon pepper and salt to taste
- Take 1 cup marinara sauce, I used mine available in my profile or in search
- Get 12 slices pepperoni
- Take 1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoons freshly grated romano cheese, divided use
- Take 1/4 cup ricotta cheese
- Make ready 1/2 teaspoon italian seasoning spice blend
- Take 1 large egg
- Take 1 teaspoon hot sauce, such as franks brand
- Make ready 1 tablespoon olive oil
- Make ready 3 green onions, sliced
- Make ready 1/2 cup italian four cheese blend, shredded
- Prepare 1/4 cup heavy cream
Instructions to make Eggplant Gratin:
- Spray a baking dish with non stick spray. Preheat oven to 425
- Peel eggpant and slice crosswise into 1 inch slices
- Add pepperoni to large non stick skillet and cook on medium low until crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove and save for later
- Season slices with salt and pepper. Heat the oil in the skillet the ppepperoni was cooked in. Non stick is important to pan roasting the eggplant with very little oil. On medium heat cook eggplant slices on both sides until golden and tender. Resist the thought that you need more oil, for best flavor you want them almost dry roasted in the skillet
- While that is vooking whisk together in a bowl the ricotta cheese, egg, cream, 1/4 cup romano cheese, hot sauce , 1/4 teaspoon pepper and Italian seasoning. Blend well. Set aside
- Add a thin layer of marinara sauce to the prepared baking dish
- Layer cooked eggpant, slightly overlapping in dish
- Cover with remainig marinara sauce
- Spread ricotta cheese mixture evenly over top
- Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons romano cheese and the italian four cheese blend
- Add reserved pepperoni slices on top of cheese
- Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbling
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