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This recipe was so good! We chose to pair these with your garlic pasta dish, delish!
Megan
Why is Monday so sneaky? Even with an extra hour of sleep on Sunday, I still feel cheated.
Goodbye sweatpants, hot chocolate, and book that I’ve been trying to finish for a year.
Hello you mean old alarm clock. You mean old alarm clock that quacks at me every morning at 5am. Mmmhm. That’s quack, like a duck. I can’t think of anyone in the world who would want to wake up that way except my special boy.
So, yes. We wake up to quacking alarm clocks and we eat eggplant pizza. We’re special together, I guess.
But these eggplant pizzas really are special in a delicious way, so don’t write the specialness off just yet. Crispy, golden brown outside, tangy tomato sauce, toppings, and melted cheese. It’s an almost-pizza and it’s yummy. Bjork took seconds, I took thirds, and even my sweet 10-year-old friend ate these pizzas and enjoyed them.
And here’s something to brighten your Monday – they’re healthy!
Cause this weekend? My eating? Let’s just say there might have been a bucket of french fries and a Juicy Lucy involved.
So I guess today is a new day when I eat healthy things like eggplant pizza covered in melted cheese. Ā Cool.
Cheesy Baked Eggplant Pizza
- Total Time: 35 minutes
- Yield: 3-4 1x
Description
These little eggplant pizzas are baked slices of breaded eggplant topped with marinara and melted cheese. Simple, healthy, delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 large unpeeled eggplant, cut into 1 inch slices
- 1 cup seasoned bread crumbs
- 3/4 cup egg whites
- 1 cup tomato sauce (pizza, marinara, whatever you like)
- 1 cup shredded or sliced mozzarella cheese (can sub provolone or other cheese)
- toppings: fresh spinach, pepperoni, green pepper, Canadian bacon, etc.
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Press each slice of eggplant with paper towels to remove a little of the excess moisture. Put egg whites and bread crumbs in separate shallow bowls. Dip eggplant slices in egg whites, then coat with breadcrumbs. Put on a baking sheet and drizzle with a tiny bit of olive oil.
- Bake for 10 minutes or until crisp on one side. Turn each piece over, drizzle with a tiny bit of olive oil, and bake another 5-8 minutes.
- Top each slice with a little tomato sauce, cheese, and your toppings. Bake another 5-10 minutes until cheese is melted.
Notes
I found that it worked best to layer the toppings on top of the sauce and underneath the cheese.
- Prep Time: 15 mins
- Cook Time: 20 mins
- Category: Dinner
- Cuisine: Italian-Inspired
Keywords: eggplant pizza, pizza recipe, vegetarian pizza, healthy pizza
And here’s the part where you leave me a suggestion for an alarm clock ringtone that won’t make me crazy.
In exchange for a pizza? Please?
This was delicious! So decadent but light at the same time. I added a bit of ground burger to some, some basil, and other slices with pepperoni. They were all great. Next time I may pre-salt the eggplant before the egg wash to enhance the eggplant flavor but otherwise I would make it exactly as written.
Thank you for the delicious receipe! I’ve tried it out this evening using one of those round eggplants and it was very yummy.
I’ve experimented with tuna and green onion as a topping on one of the slices, which worked out well! Greetings from Germany
I would like to pin this to Pinterest but I can’t figure out how to.
Hi Heather! There should be a pin it button at the top and bottom of the page, and there’s also a pin it button that should pop up when you hover over an image. If that’s not working just use the Pin It function within your browser.
WOW! I love eggplant in any configuration. Well, I guess it’s time to hit the stove folks and get busy. I’ll report back on this tasty treat.
I am going to try this recipe BUT what are some other great options to serve with this? Yes, I could do a salad but if I serve this for dinner I won’t leftovers so something I could do for at least 2 days!
I’ve made this and it taste awesome! I love eggplant and this is one of the onlys I can get my kids to eat it. We love it with mushrooms. My ring tone to wake me is mush from josh gribin. Is nice soft music and doent make mejump
This recipe was so good! We chose to pair these with your garlic pasta dish, delish!
Hi Lindsay! A friend of a friend had pinned this delicious recipe and I tried my hand on it the other day in an effort to disguise a vegetable I love and he hates. Great Success! Thanks and here’s your pingback š
Thanks Francesca!
This looks great! Also, how cool is it that you live here in the Phils? Awesome!
I am making these tonight for the second time. We love it! Thank you.
Great! Glad you like them Angela!
I use my cell phone and it has a lovely harp tone that is so gentle and gets gradually louder, so it doesn’t freak me out…. LOL…. Even music shocks me in the am…. love the harp… I have an I-phone and found it on there for free…. š
Recipe sounds amazing, am repinning it as a “turn it vegan” recipe, which just means using Daiya cheese [which melts in the broiler and oven, not quite so well on the stove…. don’t use a microwave, so can’t say how it does there… but it is totally deliciously yummy!!!! And a cool plus is that it stays “melted” even when cold!!! YAY!!!] in this case!!! Yum!!! Can’t wait to try it!!! And if I can manage it, gluten free bread crumbs… after having major joint and back pain for several decades, it is completely gone after giving up gluten…. mostly…. lol… I cheat if there is a good reason… life is for living, after all…. š
It’s simply called “harp” in my alarm clock section…
This looks soo amazing I cannot wait to make it.