Eggplant And Goat-cheese Sandwiches With Tomato Tarragon Sauce
From justlikemikey 12 years ago
- 30 minutes to make
- Serves 4
The dish has great contrasting tastes of sweet tomato sauce, crunchy panko crust, soft eggplant and creamy goat cheese. The tomato sauce has the surprise seasoning of tarragon, rather than the expected sweet basil. Read more It adds a sweet anise flavor that makes the dish distinctive. Of course, you could substitute the basil, but I will always make this with the tarragon. This was very quick to make. In fact, have everything ready because once you start cooking, it all goes like the wind. See less
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon olive oil shopping list
- 1 small onion, chopped shopping list
- 3 cups fresh or canned crushed tomatoes in thick puree (one 28-ounce can) shopping list
- 1 teaspoon fresh tarragon shopping list
- 1- 1/4 teaspoons salt shopping list
- 1 teaspoon sugar shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon fresh-ground black pepper shopping list
- 1 cup dry bread crumbs (I used plain panko) shopping list
- 1/2 cup grated Parmesan shopping list
- 2 eggplants, peeled and cut to make sixteen 1/2-inch-thick slices in all shopping list
- 4 eggs, beaten to mix shopping list
- cooking oil, for frying shopping list
- 1/2 pound mild goat cheese, such as Montrachet, cut into 8 rounds shopping list
How to make it
- 1. In a medium saucepan, heat the olive oil over moderately low heat. Add the onion and cook, stirring occasionally, until translucent, about 5 minutes. Add the tomatoes, tarragon, 3/4 teaspoon of the salt, and the sugar and simmer, stirring occasionally, for 25 minutes. Stir in 1/4 teaspoon of the pepper.
- 2. Meanwhile, heat the oven to 350°. In a medium bowl, combine the bread crumbs, Parmesan, and the remaining 1/2 teaspoon salt and 1/4 teaspoon pepper.
- 3. Dip each slice of eggplant in the eggs and then in the bread-crumb mixture, coating well. In a large frying pan, heat about half an inch of cooking oil over moderate heat until very hot. Fry the eggplant in the hot oil, in batches, turning once, until golden and cooked through, 1 to 2 minutes per side. Drain on paper towels.
- 4. Arrange half of the eggplant slices in a single layer on a baking sheet. Put a slice of goat cheese on top of each and then top with the remaining eggplant slices. Bake until the cheese melts, about 10 minutes. Put the sauce on plates and top with the eggplant.
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