Aubergines Au Gratin or Eggplant Casserole Recipe

Name: Aubergines Au Gratin or Eggplant Casserole Recipe
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 35 min
Total time: 1 h 15 min
Yield: 4
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 2 medium aubergines, eggplants; 6 tomatoes; 1 onion finely chopped; 2 tablespoons olive oil; 2 sprigs parsley; 1 sprig thyme; 1 sprig basil; Salt and black pepper; Grated cheese such as Parmesan or any hard cheese

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Roasted Eggplant Recipe

Aubergines au gratin (my translation Baked Eggplant Recipe with Cheese) is a simple and easy vegetable recipe full of flavor and natural goodness. It's a great dish to serve as a starter and can be served either hot or cold or with your favorite roast poultry and meat dishes.

Two white baking dishes with eggplant covered in cheese.

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📋Ingredients
🔢Instructions
🥂How To Serve
🍴Kitchen Tools
❄️Storage
❔FAQ
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How To Make This Baked Eggplant Recipe
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📋Ingredients

aubergines, eggplants
tomatoes
onion
olive oil
parsley
thyme
basil
Salt and black pepper
Grated cheese such as Parmesan or any hard cheese

🔢Instructions

Wash eggplants and slice them length-ways.
Sprinkle with salt and place in a colander (place a plate on the top of them with a weight on this. This will allow the excess water to run out)
Plunge the tomatoes into boiling water for a few minutes and then peel and chop them. Or do as I do, just wash and chop, leaving the skins on.
Pour the oil into a heavy-bottomed pan and sweat the onions and tomatoes with the herbs for about 15 minutes.
You can now either rub the tomatoes through a sieve or blend them in a processor.
Season your tomato puree (now called tomato coulis) with salt and pepper to taste.
Rinse the eggplant slices and dry them with paper towel or a clean tea towel.
Saute the eggplant slices in olive oil until golden brown.
Place them in individual dishes and pour the tomato coulis over the top.
Sprinkle with grated cheese and place under the grill until golden brown, approximately 10 minutes.
Your dish is now ready to serve.

🥂How To Serve

It can be served hot as a first course or as a side dish with your favorite roast meat or chicken dishes.
It is also good served cold.
Of course you can simply serve it on it's own with fresh crusty bread.

It's so delicious!

🍴Kitchen Tools

sharpe knife for slicing vegetables
collander for draining
casserole dish
serving utensil

❄️Storage

Keep in the refrigerator for up to 2 days.
If well wrapped so no air can get in, this dish can be frozen for 2-3 months. Unthaw in fridge and warm in oven.

❔FAQ

Do you need to peel eggplant before cooking?

There is no need to peel eggplant before baking as you will be missing so much nutrition and the dark green skin provides a good looking contrast to the flesh of the vegetable in the finished dish.

Do you need to salt eggplant before roasting?

It is not necessary for any other reason except to draw some of the water out of the vegetable to allow it to cook without absorbing too much of the other fluid in the recipe like oil which will make it soggy.

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But, this easy aubergines au gratin recipe is not the only one to enjoy with just vegetables, try Vegetable Bake or known in French as Tian Provencal, with zucchini, tomatoes, onions, garlic, parmesan cheese and French herbs. Delightful! Or Vegetable Tian (sound familiar) with eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes, potatoes, onions and fragrant thyme to mingle with all the veggies.

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