italian eggplant casserole
italian eggplant casserole

Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, italian eggplant casserole. One of my favorites food recipes. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.

Repeat procedure with remaining eggplant, tomato mixture, and mozzarella cheese. Coat a small casserole with nonstick spray and add a layer of eggplant, overlapping the slices slightly. Spoon a little of the sauce over the eggplant and top with slices of provolone.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook italian eggplant casserole using 24 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.

The ingredients needed to make italian eggplant casserole:
  1. Take breading eggplant and frying
  2. Prepare 1 1/2 lbs eggplant sliced 1/4 inch pieces
  3. Take Italian bread crumbs
  4. Take grated parmeasan cheese
  5. Take cornmeal
  6. Prepare flour
  7. Make ready vegetable oil
  8. Prepare eggs
  9. Get milk
  10. Get sauce
  11. Get ground beef
  12. Make ready onion diced
  13. Take green bell pepper
  14. Get garlic crushed
  15. Prepare Italian tomato, slices long way
  16. Prepare 6 oz tomato paste
  17. Prepare dried oregano leaves
  18. Take dried basil leaves
  19. Get salt
  20. Take pepper
  21. Prepare brown sugar
  22. Make ready water
  23. Get grated parmeasan cheese
  24. Make ready 16 oz mozzarella cheese sliced 1/4 inch thin

This Italian Eggplant Casserole is great for a summer meal. Just add some cornbread, Italian bread or Texas toast and a salad. Baked eggplant is layered between tofu ricotta and rich marinara sauce. No more fried eggplant, just delicious, crispy, and tender breaded eggplant!

Instructions to make italian eggplant casserole:
  1. in a large skillet, with a wooden spoon, brown the ground beef, add onion, bell pepper ,salt, pepper and garlic, stir mixing, cook to browned beef
  2. add tomato slice, tomato paste ,oregano ,basil ,sugar and water.mix bring to a boil, reduce heat to simmer, let simmer 25 minutes, stirring occasionally when time is up true off stove let set
  3. preheat oven and bake on 350°F. useing 13×9 - 2 inch deep baking dish.
  4. now wash eggplant, slice eggplant, do not peel.
  5. in a dish beat eggs and milk, in other dish put the flour, other dish mix parmeasan cheese ,corn meal and bread crumbs. now start with the flour, dip in flour, egg mix, then bread crumbs then fry in medium skillet with hot oil.fry all eggplant pieces.until golden brown. set on paper towel or wire rack.
  6. now layer fried eggplant slices in baking dish on bottom, them layer with the mozzarella cheese, using about 8 slices of each, then layer with sauce,the parmeasan, then repeat, the next layer same way. you are ready to bake. 30 minutes or untill mozzarella has melted and light golden color. its done, enjoy.
  7. best to let set 8 minutes before serving.

After all slices are fried and drained of oil, start layering a casserole dish with fried eggplant. On each layer of eggplant, spread tomato sauce and top with grated cheese. Continue layering until all is used. It is now ready to eat. Place slices on a kitchen towel in a single layer.

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