Heart Health

One of the EtsyBloggers blog carnival themes in in regards to February being Heart Health Month.
"What is your best heart healthy recipe. What do you do to stay heart healthy. How do you promote heart health?"


Here's a recipe that we came up with a while ago. I have posted it before, but here goes again. It is a vegetarian main dish featuring the super healthful tomato and eggplant.


Vegetarian Eggplant Stacks Recipe
1 large eggplant, sliced thick

1 or 2 large tomatoes, sliced thick

salt

olive oil

lemon juice

2 garlic cloves, crushed

handful of fresh basil, chopped

2 sprigs of fresh oregano, chopped

2 stems of rosemary

1/4 cup grated parmesan cheese

1/4 cup mozzarella cheese
Sprinkle with salt and lay eggplant slices between layers of paper towels. Allow to sit for 15 minutes (this helps draw out the bitterness). While waiting add crushed garlic to 1/4 cup olive oil and let sit. Rinse and pat the slices dry. Brush with a bit of olive oil. Bake for about 5 minutes at 350 degrees.
Remove the eggplant from oven and begin layering with the tomato slices, parmesan cheese and sprinkle some basil & oregano between each layer. One eggplant should make 2 stacks.When you get through layering, drizzle the stack with garlic oil mixture, a squeeze of lemon juice, and top with mozzarella cheese. To hold it all together, strip the bottom 3/4ths on each rosemary stem and stick it through the top of each stack like a skewer. Bake in the 359 degree oven until the cheese is melted.