Baked Eggplant Appetizer

You might not realize this because I plan to flood this blog with recipes over the next few days, but: Man, there's hardly anything here! Fear not; I plan on posting quite regularly.

Onto the eggplant! I'm not sure how or when it was I realized that I loved eating it, but eggplant is one of my favorite vegetables and this is a nice (if "junk food") way of making it. Super easy! I got it from a Mr. Food cookbook.

Ingredients

1 eggplant, cut into 1/4" thick slices

1/2 cup seasoned breadcrumbs
1/2 cup parmesan cheese, grated

vegetable oil

Directions

Preheat oven to 375F.

Combine the breadcrumbs and parmesan in a small bowl.

Dip the eggplant slices in the oil, then coat both sides with the breadcrumb/cheese mixture. Place on baking sheet (see tip below) and bake 15 minutes. Turn eggplant slices and bake an additional 15 minutes or until slices are brown.

Baking Sheets

The worst part of cooking: Doing the dishes afterward! Whenever possible, I like to use sheets of aluminum foil on baking sheets for super easy cleanup. When making the eggplant slices, or certain frozen appetizers, I not only use foil but then spray the foil lightly with cooking spray. This makes sure that more cheese gets in your mouth instead of stuck to the foil!