Steps to Make Ultimate Eggplant Gratin

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, eggplant gratin. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Eggplant Gratin is one of the most favored of recent trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Eggplant Gratin is something that I’ve loved my entire life.

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