This dish is healthy with wonderful flavors of eggplant, mushrooms, and cheese in a tomato sauce.
Ingredients
- 1 medium eggplant
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1 onion
- 1/2 tsp fresh thyme
- 1/2 tsp fresh parsley
- 1/2 tsp fresh rosemary
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1/2 pound white mushrooms
- 1/4 black pepper, freshly ground
- 1 8-ounce can tomato sauce
- 1 cup part-skim mozzarella cheese, shredded
- 1/4 cup Parmesan cheese, freshly cheese
Directions
- Peel the eggplant and cut into 1/4" thick slices.
- Arrange the eggplant slices on a baking sheet coated with olive oil; broil the eggplant for 3 minutes on each side or until lightly browned. Set aside the eggplant to cool.
- Chop the onion, parsley, thyme, rosemary, and garlic and set aside in a bowl.
- Clean and slice the mushrooms.
- Preheat the oven to 375°F.
- In a large skillet heat all but 1 tsp of the remaining olive oil.
- Add the onion, garlic, rosemary, thyme, parsley and mushrooms to the skillet. Stir well.
- Cover the skillet and cook 7 minutes over medium heat or until the onions are tender, stirring occasionally.
- Uncover the skillet and increase the heat to medium-high. Cook for 2 minutes or until the liquid evaporates.
- Coat a 1 1/2 quart casserole dish with the 1 tsp of olive oil.
- Spread half of mushroom mixture in bottom of the baking dish.
- Layer half of eggplant slices over mushroom mixture.
- Sprinkle with half the pepper and then top with the tomato sauce and 1/3 of the mozzarella.
- Spread the remaining mushroom mixture over the mozzarella cheese.
- Layer with the remaining eggplant slices. Sprinkle with the pepper and top with the remaining tomato sauce.
- Cover the dish and bake at 375°F for 1 hour.
- Sprinkle with remaining mozzarella and Parmesan cheeses.
- Bake, uncovered, for 5 minutes or until the cheese melts.
- Let the casserole stand for 10 minutes before serving.