Eggplant puff pastry with cheese. The rustic puff pastry and always a perfect dinner saver, but not only, with the puff pastry you can make a thousand appetizers and delicious dishes that always please everyone, so keeping a roll of puff pastry in the fridge can always come in handy. A combination that I love is that of puff pastry and eggplant, so a few days ago I prepared this delicious savory pie of puff pastry and eggplant, a rustic spring and summer delicious and a dish valid both as an appetizer and as a quick dinner saver.
If you also have puff pastry and eggplant in the fridge, just add some cheese that can spin like provola or scamorza, You will have the right ingredients to make this fast and delicious savory cake also perfect as a quick appetizer for Easter and for spring outings.
If you are looking for delicious ideas for cooking aubergines, check out the recipe of grilled eggplant rolls and traditional greek moussaka recipe.
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Ingredients
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Steps
Peel the eggplant and cut it into very small cubes, collect it in a bowl and add a little salt, mix and set aside. Chop the onion and sauté in a good amount of oil.
Take the eggplant cubes and squeeze them with your hands or with a cloth.
But do you know why eggplants should be salted? Once eggplants were more bitter, with the addition of salt and rest they discharged the vegetation water losing some of that bitter aftertaste. Now the eggplants are no longer so bitter, but by discharging the water of vegetation, in cooking they are more full-bodied and less soggy and if fried they come with a really delicious golden and crunchy crust.
But going back to our dish, add the eggplant to the onion and let it brown for about 20 minutes or until they are tasty, soft and golden.
Set aside and let cool completely.
Unroll the puff pastry, place the long side facing you and spread over vertically half of the eggplant. Add some grated cheese, a sprinkling of breadcrumbs and sliced cheese, you can choose between a provola cheese, a caciotta or a generic spun paste (to be clear, the cheese covered with paraffin) or even a mozzarella for pizza.
Fold the free puff pastry over the filling, seal the edges by folding them inwards, brush with beaten egg, sprinkle with sesame seeds and bake in a ventilated oven at 390 ºF for 20-25 minutes or until you get the gilding you want.
Remove from the oven, let cool and serve still hot and stringy or even at room temperature.
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