How To: Make baked eggplant patties

This is a good dish to serve with pasta and it is easy to prepare. Ingredients you will need: 1 good size eggplant 1-cup breadcrumbs 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder 1/2 teaspoon salt Black fresh ground pepper. Olive oil Wash the eggplant and with a potato peeler peel the eggplant leaving some of the skin on. A good way to do this is by peel a strip, leave a strip, peel a strip, etc. It will be a striped eggplant. You are going to cut the eggplant into 1-inch slices. First, cut the end of the eggplant off. Put the slices of eggplant in a bowl and salt. Your oven should be preheated to 400 degrees F. While your over is heating make the breadcrumb mixture. To 1 cup of breadcrumbs, add 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder, 1/2 teaspoon salt and black fresh ground pepper. Stir. Coat a cooking tray with olive oil. May certain that the entire sheet is well coated. Take a slice of your eggplant and lay it in the breadcrumb mixture. Put some crumbs on top of the eggplant. Make sure the slice is well coated. Pick up and tap excess breadcrumbs off. Place the eggplant on the cooking tray. Do this until all eggplant is on the tray. Take your olive oil an sprinkle over the breaded slices. Bake in oven for 15 minutes. At the end of this time, remove from the oven and turn each slice of eggplant over. Sprinkle with olive oil and put back into the oven. Cook another 15 minutes. Remove from the oven and sprinkle with a little more salt. Good dish to serve with pasta.