Roasted Eggplant with Spinach, Quinoa, and Feta
Roasted Eggplant with Spinach, Quinoa, and Feta. Honestly, it’s one of the best recipes I’ve made so far using eggplant, and the combination of all these simple ingredients is amazing!
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Ingredients:
| 1 | large eggplant, cut into 1 inch cubes |
| 2 tablespoons | olive oil |
| salt and pepper | |
| 1 tablespoon | olive oil |
| 2 cloves | garlic |
| 5 to 10 ounces | fresh spinach (to taste) |
| 1 1/2 cups | cooked quinoa |
| 1/4 cup | feta cheese |
Directions:
Preheat oven to 420 F. Line a baking sheet with foil. Grease the sheet lightly with olive oil.
In a large bowl, mix cubed eggplant with 2 tablespoons olive oil, and season with salt and pepper. Spread chopped eggplant over the lightly greased baking sheet. Roast for 20-25 minutes (or more, depends on your oven) until eggplant softens. Midway through roasting, take out the sheet and flip over eggplant cubes to the other side using spatula - that will help even out the roasting.
While eggplant is being roasted, heat 1 tablespoon of olive oil in a large skillet, add spinach and 1 minced garlic clove and cook for a couple of minutes, constantly stirring, just until spinach wilts. Remove from heat.
Once eggplant is done, immediately remove it from the baking sheet into the same skillet with spinach, off heat. Immediately add quinoa and second clove of minced garlic. This will allow cooked eggplant to release some juices when mixed in with quinoa. Mix everything well, off heat, and season with more salt if needed. Don't add too much salt or omit it altogether as you will be using Feta cheese too. Top with Feta cheese.
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