What I wish a Big Mac looked like
This is a great side with burgers or steak. Change the spice in the marinade to your taste. I like Tapatio.
Grilled Eggplant and Zucchini Stacks
Marinade
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup dry white wine
- 1 tbsp cider vinegar
- 4 dashes hot pepper sauce
- 1 tbsp Dijon mustard
- 1 tbsp chopped fresh basil
- salt/pepper
Whisk everything together.
Stacks
- 1 eggplant sliced 1/4″ thin longways salted and weighted for 1/2 hour
- 1-2 Zucchini sliced 1/4″ thin longways
- 2-3 tomatoes sliced thick
- 3 shitake mushroom caps sliced paper thin
- 2 cloves garlic minced
- goat cheese
- salt pepper
Brush marinade over eggplant and zuchini. Let stand for at least 30 minutes. Grill slices over direct heat until browned on both sides, about seven minutes. Meanwhile in a large frying pan melt 1 tablespoon butter and fry mushrooms until browned. Add garlic and cook for a minute more. To assemble spread goat cheese over an eggplant slice. Top with some mushroom. Top with tomato then zucchini. Spread more cheese on zucchini, then repeat mushrooms and tomato. Top with an eggplant slice. Serve hot or cold. The left over marinade can be drizzled over them as well.
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Looks great I especially love zucchini!
Looks dreamy – just my kind of dish, fresh and colorful!
Oh my, another night when I can´t sleep, it´s 5.30am and this pops up….do you think Big Man will wake up if I start cooking up a storm in the kitchen to make these?! They look fabulous and I love the marinade. Night, night…I guess it´s bed time where you are!
Ha, if he doesn’t it’s more for you.
What a great pair of ideas! The ingredients themselves make this a great dish. Your marinade makes it something really special.
Those look really good!
Oh wow, those look GREAT! 😀
I love grilled eggplant.. it is just so delicious and amazing. So this sandwich is definitely up my alley. Now I’m excited all over again.. since seeing the grilled fruit. Love this you guys
Great colours – strong pic. I managed to incinerate the eggplant on the bbq yesterday.
Amazing photo! I think this one is my favourite on your blog (until know)! At first I thought it was a photo of fancy éclairs 😉 (I don’t know if they exist in the US…). I should put this recipe on my “dishes to try” list!
I meant “until now”, sorry. I should stop talking to myself in my head when I write 😉
No worries. We have fancy eclairs here, they’re called Moon Pies. Kidding!
Skip the burgers and steak – these are good enough to eat all on their own.
🙂 Mandy
This was precisely my thought as well. 😛
Definitely summer garden colorful! Nice pic.
This is more then a side! Looks like a delicious main dish
Looks yummy! I could make a meal off just this.
Wow, that looks meaty and large enough to be a meal on its own. I see others agree! Looks yummy.
but greg… Bic Macs are so bloody pretty too!
America’s gift to the world!
Gift to the world… haha. I’ll describe it like that in all future conversations and ordering. I’ve been craving one for months!!
Well that and Coca Cola!
Love the taste of grilled eggplant. This would be enough for me to eat as the meal!
Great lookin’ veggies there, Greg! The marinade sounds awesome.
Oh lovely! I’m off to the farmers’ market (I’ll let you know if I buy a farmer…) maybe I’ll find the fixin’s! MMMMmmmm!!
Ha, good one!
What a cool idea- love how it looks like a sandwich!
Those look so incredible! I love grilled summer veggies so much!
Love all these flavors! Well, I’d probably skip the eggplant, but the idea of grilled zucchini, tomatoes, mushrooms, garlic, and goat cheese … drooling just a little.
Ha, no one’s on the fence about eggplant!
Fantastic recipe! Oh, if Ritchey were looking at this he would be salivating! Everything he loves in one stack! And we have zucchini and tomatoes from our garden to use!
I love grilled eggplant! So perfect for summer! 🙂
Again Rufus, amazing and just my kind of Big Mac…Neo-Big Mac!
Grilled zucchini is yummy!
Beautiful! Food tastes so much better when stacked.
Lovely! I used to make a similar type of recipe that involved grilled eggplant, tomatoes, and polenta disks. The veggies were cut on a round shape, and the polenta of course made it all a lot more substantial. I like your version better…
Thanks, but I do love the idea of having polenta too.
Grilled vegetables are so great. Looks like you were at the farmers market also.
I love grilled veggies! Great photo too! Are these from your garden?
Sadly, no on the zucchini and eggplant. But our farmers market has some great stuff. The tomatoes were ours.
OMG, that is my dream big mac TOO!!!
Looks wonderful. I am a big fan of zucchini. This really looks like a meal all on it’s own.
This looks great. I have a big cookout on schedule and I think I’ll make this for the vegetarians on hand. Thanks.
Looks gorgeous and sounds tasty! I made something with a similar vegetable combo the other night 🙂
That’s my kind of sandwich! Your marinade sounds delish and I’ve got a little bit of hot sauce to play with!!
Oh the stuff you made with your chilis? Yum.
“What I wish a Big Mac looked like.” LOL! 🙂 America in particular would be a much healthier place if that’s what Big Macs looked like … and your version is infinitely tastier as well!
All of these awesome eggplant recipes…I’m going to be making eggplant for weeks at this rate! (Not that I’m complaining. LOL!)
Looks/sounds great. I’ll take at least two for dinner please.
This looks delicious! How does the eggplant hold up though? I’ve wanted to make more recipes with eggplant, but the husband tends to think they’re too mushy, normally.
As long as you salt them, they’re fine.
Beautiful photography and a very creative recipe!
Thanks!
Eggplant mushroom lover’s heaven!
Mmm… this is my kind of food!! Love that you used the goat cheese, I like that the best with grilled veggies!!
What an awesome photo! I loved grilled vegies. Shitakes are such a favourite too, this would be delicious!
Eggplant is one of my favourites – I buy an eggplant dip often and use it to smear on burgers, so I can imagine how lovely this would be as a side to a steak. And I cannot say no to vine ripened tomatoes – is there anything better in the world? Maybe this stack is it…
Beautiful, Greg. I’ve made a similar thing before and put some sliced camembert and minced chilli in the centre… I find I need to stick them through with skewers, club sandwich style though as they topple over otherwise 😀
Beautiful looking stack! Love the marinade!! Great picture!
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