Hello everybody, hope you are having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, oven baked eggplants with feta cheese. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Oven Baked Eggplants with Feta Cheese is one of the most favored of recent trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. Oven Baked Eggplants with Feta Cheese is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
This classic combination of baked eggplant, tomatoes and herbs is enhanced by the addition of feta cheese to create a delicious appetizer, side dish or meatless main dish. A perfect recipe toward the end of summer when the garden is bursting with tomatoes, fresh herbs and eggplant. If you are making this another time of year, choose bright red tomatoes such as those sold on the vine.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can cook oven baked eggplants with feta cheese using 14 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Oven Baked Eggplants with Feta Cheese:
- Get 6 Eggplants
- Take 500 grams Feta Cheese
- Get Sauce
- Prepare 5 Fresh Tomatoes (diced)
- Get 1 teaspoon Tomato Paste
- Take 2 cloves Garlic (chopped)
- Take 1/2 cup chopped Basil
- Take 1 teaspoon Oregano
- Take 1/2 cup Olive Oil
- Prepare 1 teaspoon Sugar
- Get Salt
- Get Pepper
- Take Paprika
- Make ready 1 cup water
Layer the eggplant in the bottom of a baking dish. Combine the tomatoes, basil, garlic, and salt and pepper to taste, in a bowl, and spoon the mixture over the eggplant. Serve hot, warm, or at room temperature. Place the eggplant pieces in one layer on the bottom of the prepared baking dish.
Steps to make Oven Baked Eggplants with Feta Cheese:
- Wash Eggplants with water, and then cut into circular pieces. In a large bowl filled with water and 1 teaspoon of salt, add in the Eggplants and let them sit for about 1/2 hour. In the meantime start the sauce, by adding into a large sauce pan a few dashes of Olive Oil. Toss in the diced Tomatoes, Garlic, Basil, Sugar, Salt, Pepper, Paprika, Oregano, Tomato Paste and 1 cup of water. Let the sauce boil on low heat for 1/2 hour and until thickened.
- Drain the Eggplants, and wash thoroughly, then take a piece of Cooking paper or Aluminum foil, brush with a bit of Olive Oil before adding the Eggplants. The Eggplants should be about 1 inch apart from each other. Sprinkle Olive Oil over the Eggplants, and then pop them into the oven for about 15 minutes, turn them over at least one time.
- Tip: You can also fry the Eggplants, instead of baking them if you prefer. Take the baking pan and a bit of sauce on the bottom and some Feta cheese. Add on a layer of Eggplants, then sauce and top with Feta cheese. Continue layering until all your ingredients have finished. Finish off by adding in the 1/2 cup of Olive oil and pop into the oven.
- Bake at 180 degrees for 40 minutes. Kali Orexi! 🙂
Place the meat in one layer over the eggplant and sprinkle with the feta. Spread a layer of tomato rounds over the feta. Pour over the skillet juices and sauce, then top with the Graviera. The eggplant turned out too dry and salty, but I did like how the feta cheese browned instead of melting. Might have overcooked it or used too much salt though.
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