The Best Grilled Eggplant Parmigiana

The Best Grilled Eggplant Parmigiana is really the crème de la crème of vegetable dishes.  My local market has Italian eggplants this time of year.  Their real name is Barbarella ; they are dark purple with a white background.  These eggplants are sweet and practically seedless; even the skin is tender. it is a simple dish that came from when people had very little, but the basic ingredients.  

My nonna would fry eggplants, add a little sauce and parmesan; this was one of my favourite dishes.  I don’t fry too many things anymore; and so, the grill adds the healthy factor to this dish.  I also sometimes makes this dish and put in on top of some spaghetti with marinara sauce.  I cheat a little and have a Pasta Alla Norma dish. This dish makes a wonderful main or side.

Today they are going onto the grill with a little canola oil and Italian seasoning and then the magic begins.  The grill marks take shape and this eggplant almost looks like steak.  It also stands up to the heat of the grill.

These are the Barbarella eggplants.  This is not my photo and I want to credit :http://www.johnnyseeds.com/vegetables/eggplant/italian-eggplants/

I accidentally deleted my photo, and so thanks to Johnny’s selected seeds.  I liked this site because you can see the various types of eggplants.

You can see the almost seedless slices.  Cut nice round thick slices to put on the barbeque.

I brush each slice with canola oil and spices.

They go directly on the grill.

Beautiful Grill Marks on these.

I take them off and they are ready for the pan.

Of course I have a fresh pot of Marinara Sauce cooking.

https://recipesatmytable.com/marinara-sauce-passata-making/

This is as good as it gets, and now just sprinkle on the parmesan cheese and that’s good to go to the table.

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