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Tuscan Dinner
Grilled Eggplant Tuscan Style
This is another of my favorite dishes while in Tuscany! Remember You can bake up a bunch of eggplant and when ever you don’t use for
this dish. Place in a freezer safe bag to use later for another dish.
Ingredients
• 1 large eggplant
• 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 1 teaspoon dried oregano
• 1/2-1 crushed red pepper red pepper (optional)
• 2 large fresh tomatoes, sliced
• A bunch fresh basil leaves
• 1 teaspoon sea salt
• 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F
1. Slice eggplant into 1/4-1/2 inch thick round slices. Put on a board and lay a paper towel on top and place a heavy plate on it for 10
minutes. That will drain out some of the water.
2. Drizzle olive oil over slices and brush lemon juice over eggplant and let sit for 5 minutes until absorbed.
3. Sprinkle oregano, red pepper and salt and pepper to taste, over slices.
4. Using a grill pan, add olive oil on the bottom and grill 5-8 minutes on each side until slightly charred. Put in an oven safe pan. Layer
eggplant with tomato, a basil leaf. Bake in the oven for 20 minutes.
5. When ready to serve chop additional basil leaves and sprinkle over top
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