The combination of eggplant and cheese is a great one, and you can taste it in these delicious eggplant snacks. You don’t need more than two ingredients: eggplant and cheese. The great thing is that you can add variety by using different types of cheese. Or a mix of cheeses.

Eggplant Cheese Snacks

Looking for an easy snack that’s not too unhealthy? Then this delicious eggplant snack recipe is for you. And as a bonus, you’ll have eaten some vegetables. Not that you get enough vegetables from eating snacks, but every little bit helps, right? I love eggplant and dishes such as this easy eggplant parmesan is a go to staple here. As well as baba ghanoush or a surprising eggplant curry with jackfruit.

Now these eggplant snacks with melted cheese are something else entirely. They’re super quick to make and can easily serve as a snack for the 4th of July, Thanksgiving or Christmas. Pretty versatile!
Or make them as part of a dinner. I can see this being served as a starter. Or as a meat substitute for a vegetarian meal.

Variation with cheese

I make these eggplant snacks on a fairly regular basis, and I try a different cheese each time. The last time I made them, I used a mix of blue cheese and Parmesan. I grated the latter and put the former on top in chunks. It melts by itself in the oven. Super delicious. If you like blue cheese, of course.

To cook the eggplant slices well, it is useful to fry them in a pan for a while before putting them in the oven. They will cook in the oven, of course, but you don’t want the cheese to burn while the eggplant is still undercooked. Nothing is more annoying than tough eggplant. So I just sprinkle them with some salt and fry them in the pan.

Because the slices are not too thick, they cook pretty quickly, so you don’t need much more than a minute per side. Then bake them in the oven with the cheese on top and your eggplant and cheese snacks are ready.

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Eggplant snacks with cheese

Prep time 5

Cooking time 10

Total time 15

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Ingredients

▢ 2 eggplants cut into slices of appr. 0,5 cm thick
▢ 150 gr old cheese grated
▢ 1 tbsp olive oil
▢ salt and pepper

Metric – Us customary

How to make the eggplant snacks

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350˚F
Sprinkel some salt on the eggplant slices and grill them briefly with some of the oil in a grillpan or frying pan. Normally one minute for each side, should be fine
Take the eggplant out of the pan and put them on a baking tin covered with baking paper. Drop some grated cheese on every slice and sprinkle some freshly ground black pepper on top
Put the baking tin in the oven and grill the slices until the cheese has melted and has a crispy coating
Serve your eggplant snacks together with some other snacks and a beer or as a side dish.

Simone

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The nutritional values above are calculated per portion. The details are based on standard nutritional tables and do not constitute a professional nutritional advice.

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