Grilled Vegetable Towers

Name: Grilled Vegetable Towers
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 20 min
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 8
Cuisine: Global
Ingredients: 7 inches thick slices country-style bread; 2 Japanese eggplants, cut into sixteen 1/4-to-1/2-inch-thick rounds; 113 grams 1/2 cup goat cheese, at room temperature; 1 teaspoons kosher salt; 1 large Zest of lemon; 79 milliliters extra-virgin olive oil; 16 jarred sun-dried tomatoes, drained

Grilled Vegetable Towers might be a good recipe to expand your side dish recipe box. This recipe makes 8 servings with 162 calories, 5g of protein, and 12g of fat each. This recipe covers 7% of your daily requirements of vitamins and minerals. A mixture of lemon zest, olive oil, kosher salt, and a handful of other ingredients are all it takes to make this recipe so scrumptious. It is perfect for The Fourth Of July. It is a good option if you're following a vegetarian diet. From preparation to the plate, this recipe takes about 20 minutes.

Instructions

Place a grill pan over medium-high heat or preheat a gas or charcoal grill.

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Grill Pan

Grill

Using a pastry brush, brush the bread on both sides with 1/3 cup oil. Using a 1 3/4-inch round cookie cutter, cut out 4 circles from each slice of bread. Grill the bread rounds until toasted, 1 to 2 minutes each side.

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Bread

Cooking Oil

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Cookie Cutter

Pastry Brush

Grill

Toss the eggplant rounds with the remaining 1 tablespoon oil and season with the salt. Grill until tender, about 3 minutes on each side.

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Eggplant

Salt

Cooking Oil

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Grill

In a small bowl, mix together the goat cheese and lemon zest until smooth.

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Goat Cheese

Lemon Zest

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Bowl

Spread about 3/4 teaspoon of the mixture on 8 grilled bread rounds.

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Spread

Bread

Place an eggplant round on each and top with a sun-dried tomato. Repeat the layers and top with the remaining bread slices. Gently press the layers together. Secure with toothpicks and serve.

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Sun Dried Tomatoes