Baked Eggplant Sandwiches – Get’Em Piece They’Re Room Temp!

I didn’t recollect for this baked eggplant sandwich to plough into yet some other Super Bowl political party nutrient post, but ii bites inwards together with I realized that’s what may accept happened. The argue for this epiphany had goose egg to do alongside gustation or texture, but alongside temperature. I’d forgotten only how genuinely delicious these are served at room temp, which was ever how the Italians I learned this from served it.

Of course, similar whatsoever normal someone faced alongside a warm, cheese-filled anything, I ate i equally shortly equally possible, together with it was great. Golden-brown together with crisp on the outside, soft together with gooey on the inside. However, when I went dorsum for seconds an threescore minutes later, I got to sense these inwards all their cooled-off glory.

While non equally crispy, they were even together with then crunchy only about the edges together with featured an solely unlike flavor profile. Hot salami isn’t the greatest facial expression of the sausage maker’s art, together with you lot really don’t appreciate the eggplant’s subtle sweetness playing against the cheese when hot.

I’m non certain just why, but Italians appear to accept a affair for room temperature fried foods, peculiarly vegetables. I’ve heard Mario Batali verbalize most this before, but at that topographic point seems to hold out a long tradition of letting fried materials cool downwards get-go earlier eating.

Happily, this exercise works perfectly for entertaining, since you lot tin bake these off ahead of time, together with set them out on a tray anytime. Whether for your Super Bowl party, or not, I promise you lot laissez passer these addictive eggplant sandwiches a drive soon. Enjoy!

Ingredients for each eggplant sandwich:

2 thick slices eggplant (Note: some people tabular array salt the slices to trace off liquid, which they tell is bitter. I’ve done this for other eggplant recipes, but non for these sandwiches. With the breading together with filling, I really recollect the slight bitterness is an advantage.)

3 thin, small-scale slices of salami

1/2 while provolone cheese

1 generous tablespoon olive oil, divided

seasoned flour equally needed (flour alongside plenty fine salt, pepper, together with cayenne together with then that it tastes “seasoned” when you lot dip your finger inwards it)

beaten eggs, equally needed (2 eggs is plenty for most four sandwiches)

plain breadcrumbs, equally needed
1 tsp rattling finely grated Parmesan cheese

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