Eggplant is one of Cyril’s favorite foods, and he especially loves to get it on pizza.  Considering our unhealthy obsession with pizza, we decided to make our own version one night.  Here’s what we used:

• An eggplant
• Eggs
• Breadcrumbs
• Parmesan cheese
• Yeast
• Salt
• Flour
• Olive oil
• Red sauce
• Mozzarella cheese

Usually, when you get eggplant pizza, the eggplant comes as thin breaded strips.  We decided instead to cut the eggplant into round slices to make the pizza more like what you might eat in Italian dishes.

To bread the eggplant, we dipped the slices in beaten eggs and then a mix of bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese.  We made sure to cover both sides of each slice so the eggplant would be nice and crispy.

Then we brushed a skillet with olive oil and pan fried each slice until they were nice and brown on both sides.

Next, we made our standard pizza dough, for which you’ll need the yeast, salt, flour, and olive oil, plus some water.

Once the dough was ready, we spread red sauce over it, then plenty of mozzarella cheese, and then placed the eggplant slices on top of everything and baked it.

Although the big pieces of eggplant were a little hard to bite into, we think this pizza turned out a lot better than the ones we’ve had before with just measly little eggplant strips.  It was like a reverse eggplant parm, in pizza form.  If you like eggplant, or if you’re just looking to switch up some of your usual toppings, definitely give this pizza a try.