Steps to Prepare Perfect Eggplant Gratin

Hello everybody, it is John, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, eggplant gratin. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Eggplant Gratin is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is easy, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Eggplant Gratin is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have eggplant gratin using 13 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make Eggplant Gratin:

1. Prepare large eggplant
2. Get pepper and salt to taste
3. Get marinara sauce, I used mine available in my profile or in search
4. Get pepperoni
5. Take plus 2 tablespoons freshly grated romano cheese, divided use
6. Prepare ricotta cheese
7. Make ready italian seasoning spice blend
8. Make ready large egg
9. Make ready hot sauce, such as franks brand
10. Prepare olive oil
11. Make ready green onions, sliced
12. Get italian four cheese blend, shredded
13. Make ready heavy cream

Steps to make Eggplant Gratin:

1. Spray a baking dish with non stick spray. Preheat oven to 425
2. Peel eggpant and slice crosswise into 1 inch slices
3. Add pepperoni to large non stick skillet and cook on medium low until crisp, about 5 minutes. Remove and save for later
4. 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
5. 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
6. Add a thin layer of marinara sauce to the prepared baking dish
7. Layer cooked eggpant, slightly overlapping in dish
8. Cover with remainig marinara sauce
9. Spread ricotta cheese mixture evenly over top
10. Sprinkle with remaining 2 tablespoons romano cheese and the italian four cheese blend
11. Add reserved pepperoni slices on top of cheese
12. Bake for 20 to 25 minutes until cheese is melted and sauce is bubbling

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