Because you may be new to cooking with eggplant, here are a couple tips. 1: Try salting the eggplant in order to draw out the juices that make eggplant bitter. This also firms the flesh so it doesn’t soak up too much oil. 2: Try switching out regular oil with spray oil in order to avoid soaking the eggplant. Enjoy!
Eggplant and Couscous
Original # of Servings: 1
Total Time: 30 minutes
Active Time: 10 minutes
Ingredients
- eggplant – 1/4
- garlic – 3/8 teaspoon
- couscous – 4 tablespoon
- yellow onion – 1/8
- salt – 1/8 teaspoon
- black pepper – 1/8 teaspoon
- extra virgin olive oil – 1 1/2 teaspoon
- vegetable stock – 4 tablespoon
- water – 4 tablespoon
- baby spinach – 1/2 ounce
Directions
- Heat a sauce pan over medium heat and add oil.
- Saute onions and garlic until tender and stir in couscous.
- Add vegetable broth and water and bring to a boil.
- Cover pot, remove from heat, and let stand for 5 minutes.
- Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
- Thinly slice eggplant and toss with olive oil, salt, and pepper.
- Roast eggplant for 20 minutes or until tender.
- On a large platter layer couscous with roasted eggplants and fresh spinach.
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