Recipe - Grilled Eggplant Sandwich Recipe

8 small Japanese eggplants, 3 to 4
inches
Ng
Long
About 2 pounds
2 ounce Virgin olive oil
One fourth cup Red wine vinegar
3 Cloves garlic, finely minced
20 Fresh mint leaves, roughly
chopped
1 teaspoon Dried orange zest
One half cup Extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoon Freshly ground black pepper

This is a presentation dish. Select blemishfree eggplant. Preheat broiler
or light grill. Slice eggplants in half lengthwise and brush with olive
oil.

Grill eggplant on hot part of barbecue until deep brown and place in
earthenware bowl. In separate bowl, stir together vinegar, garlic, mint,
dried orange and extra virgin olive oil. Pour liquid over eggplant and add
fresh pepper. Allow to sit if you can and serve with a salad of bitter
lettuce, such as chicory or radicchio Yield: 4 antipasto or 8 side dish
servings
Recipe by: Mario Batali on TV (199596) Sent to me by "Jack C. Elvis"
jackelvis@moonlink.net so I could check them out for formatting errors,
originally posted to Prodigy.

By CWBJ78A NANCY BERRY Time: 1:52 PM on Apr 23, 1997