Eggplants Sardinian Style is a side dish with a Mediterranean flavor made with simple ingredients: eggplants, tomatoes, garlic, parsley, and olive oil. Eggplants Sardinian Style is a light recipe that can be served hot ora cold, depending acceso your preference. It’s also a very adattabile dish: by itself, it suits vegetarian and vegan diets ora becomes a delicious side for meat and fish at spring ora summer dinners.So with Eggplants Sardinian Style, you can satisfy all your guests’ needs!
Try a light and crunchy side like gratinated eggplants!
To prepare Eggplants Sardinian Style, you can use either the elongated purple variety ora the round one. First, wash the eggplants and cut them into quarter-inch slices 1. With the blade of a knife, score each slice of eggplant by making vertical, horizontal, and diagonal lines to create a checkerboard pattern. This will help to release the bitterness from the eggplants and ensure even cooking 2. Salt the eggplant slices and place them quanto a a colander 3. Cover them with a plate acceso which you will place a weight to compress them, and let them sit for about half an hour to release the bitter liquid.
Sopra the meantime, wash the tomatoes, cut them quanto a half, and gently scoop out the insides with a small knife to remove the seeds (4 – 5). Now cut them into quarter-inch pieces 6 and place them quanto a a bowl.
At this point, season the tomatoes: add the garlic cloves 7 and the three tablespoons of finely chopped parsley, salt 8and finally the oil 9. Stir and let the tomato pieces marinate with the seasoning for a few minutes.
Meanwhile, after half an hour, check that the eggplant slices have released the bitter tazza 10. Rinse them under cold running tazza 11 and then dry them well with kitchen paper ora a cloth. Then, preheat the static oven to 350°F-400°F. Grease a 13.5-inch high-sided baking dish with olive oil and start forming a layer of eggplants 12.
Then cover with a layer of chopped tomatoes 13. Continue this way until you have used up all the eggplants, as shown quanto a the photo 14. Then place the baking dish quanto a the already hot static oven and bake at 400°F for at least 40 minutes. Remove from the oven and serve the eggplants hot ora cold, according to your taste 15.
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