Brad's eggplant au gratin. This EGGPLANT GRATIN or Aubergine Gratin makes a crowd-pleasing side dish! Tender eggplant is smothered with a fingerlickin tomato cream sauce, topped with Gruyere I first made Eggplant Au Gratin for my husband's birthday and everyone absolutely loved it. As a matter of fact, what not love?

Place on an ungreased baking sheet. I LOVE eggplant and have making it this way for many years. I grill my eggplant first instead of baking. You can have Brad's eggplant au gratin using 6 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.

Ingredients of Brad's eggplant au gratin

1. Prepare 1 of lg eggplant.
2. You need 8-12 slices of swiss cheese.
3. Prepare of Garlic powder, salt, and pepper.
4. Prepare 2 cups of half and half.
5. It’s 2 tbs of flour.
6. It’s of Bread crumbs.

Sometimes I add sliced tomatoes in the layering process. Recipe for eggplant gratin with homemade tomato sauce. Julia also included another tomato puree recipe from canned tomatoes, but I wanted to use the fresh tomatoes from our garden. On each eggplant slice, lay a zucchini slice, a pepper strip and a basil leaf.

Brad's eggplant au gratin instructions

1. Slice eggplant very thin..
2. Grease a 9×13 baking pan.
3. Lay eggplant in pan in layers. Between each layer, sprinkle with salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Also lay down 4 slices of cheese..
4. Continue until all eggplant is used..
5. Mix flour with cold half and half. Pour over the top of casserole. Shake a little to work out air bubbles between layers..
6. Top lightly with bread crumbs..
7. Bake at 375 around 20-25 minutes. Remove when top gets nice and browned..
8. Let rest a couple minutes. Serve and enjoy..

Eggplant Au Gratin with Feta Cheese. Wash the eggplants and cut off the stems. Place in a flat oven pan and sprinkle with salt and olive oil. In a bowl mix the bread crumbs, cheese, garlic and parsley. The most popular eggplant recipes are usually those in which they are stuffed with some other ingredient.