Grilled Eggplant Steaks
From primalux 16 years ago
- 8 minutes to make
- Serves 8
These come out with a very meaty/chewy almost tough texture that I love. They're really good for using as a replacement for meat in burgers or sandwiches, or cut into strips and put in burritos or stir frys or something.
Ingredients
- 1 large eggplant shopping list
- salt shopping list
- olive oil shopping list
- 2-3 cloves garlic, minced shopping list
- 4 leaves fresh basil, chopped shopping list
- pepper shopping list
- any other seasonings you enjoy shopping list
How to make it
- Take one large eggplant and slice it into rounds about 1/2 to 1 inch thick
- Lay the slices out on a kitchen towel or wire racks and sprinkle them liberally with salt
- Lay another towel or some paper towels on top of them and then put a large cutting board or a large skillet on top of them. Add something like a coffee can on top of that for weight. Basically we're trying to get as much moisture as possible out of the eggplant. If you've ever pressed tofu before cooking it, it's basically the same concept.
- In a bowl, mix the oil, garlic, basil, some salt and pepper, and whatever other spices you like.
- After half an hour flip the slices over and repeat the salting and pressing steps.
- Half an hour later remove the slices and rinse them very, very well. Press them lightly with an absorbant towel to dry.
- Brush the oil mixture onto the slices, covering both sides really well.
- Put the slices on the grill and continue to brush them with whatever you've got left of the oil mixture
- Flip them halfway through cooking. They're done once they're heated all the way through really, I like them a little blackened though, so feel free to leave them on as long as you'd like
The eggplant slices, pre salt.
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Salting
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Pressing
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After Salting and Pressing
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Prepping the marinade
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My knife is dull so the basil bruised a bit
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The Rating
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Primalux, you must be proud of this dish or you should be it is deserving of a 10
Michael
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