{"id":5218,"date":"2015-07-06T16:15:52","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T21:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/?p=5218"},"modified":"2015-07-07T06:53:33","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:53:33","slug":"eggplant-cheese-cake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/recipes\/eggplant-cheese-cake","title":{"rendered":"Eggplant Cheese Cake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Aubergine-cheesecake-001\"<\/a>After requesting Yotam Ottolenghi’s book Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi<\/a>\"\"\u00c2\u00a0I felt compelled to find a recipe and cook it. Since it is early July there are lots of eggplant available at our local farmers market, so I settled on Eggplant Cheesecake. His recipe is available online at Yotam Ottolenghi’s aubergine ‘cheesecake ‘ recipe.<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0I made a few changes and the result ahs received rave reviews here. Here is my version of this great dish.<\/p>\n

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  1. Preheat oven to 400.<\/li>\n
  2. Butter a 9 inch springform pan. Grind about a half cup of walnuts fine and coatd the buttered portion of the pan with them.<\/li>\n
  3. Using about 1 1\/2 pounds of eggplant, peel the eggplant and cut into 3\/4 inch slices so you have a collection of rounds.<\/li>\n
  4. Put the eggplant on a baking sheet coated with parchment paper. Brush or spoon 1\/4 cup of olive oil on the eggplant. It is important that the oil soaks in and that you use it all. Sprinkle with 1\/4 tsp of salt and several grinds of black pepper. Bake for 20 – 30 minutes making sure the eggplant slices are tender and have a bit of a crust on top. Cool.<\/li>\n
  5. Set heat to 325. Mix 5 oz. Feta cheese, 5 oz ricotta, 3 eggs, 1\/4 cup cream, and some pepper until smooth. I used a whisk.<\/li>\n
  6. Put the eggplant slices in the baking pan, layering them or standing them up. Add 1 cup of halved tomatoes, putting some of them under\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0the eggplant slices. sprinkle about 1\/4 cup of oregano leaves on top and pour in liquid mixture. Smooth it out. Sprinkle about another 1\/4 cup of oregano leaves on top.<\/li>\n
  7. Bake at 325 for about 25 -35 minutes until the custard sets and it is a little brown\/golden on top.<\/li>\n
  8. When cool, take the ‘cake’ out of the springform pan and spread a mixture of 1 1\/4 teaspoons of Zatar and 1 tablespoon of olive oil on top and the sides.<\/li>\n
  9. Enjoy.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    After requesting Yotam Ottolenghi’s book Plenty More: Vibrant Vegetable Cooking from London’s Ottolenghi\u00c2\u00a0I felt compelled to find a recipe and cook it. Since it is early July there are lots of eggplant available at our local farmers market, so I settled on Eggplant Cheesecake. His recipe is available online at Yotam Ottolenghi’s aubergine ‘cheesecake ‘ […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[116,245],"class_list":["post-5218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recipes","tag-eggplant","tag-recipe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5223,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5218\/revisions\/5223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.webliminal.com\/webliminalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}