Food You Can Eat: Greek Sandwiches

14/5/24 Elliecoo 11

This recipe comes directly from the Betty Crocker Diabetes Cookbook (2012 version). It falls into the “shockingly edible” category.

Ingredients

  • 4 slices eggplant
  • 2 teaspoons olive oil
  • 1/8 teaspoon salt
  • 4 3-inch ciabatta rolls
  • 4 slices provolone cheese
  • 4 slices red onion
  • 4 slices tomato
  • 4 teaspoons fat-free Greek vinaigrette dressing
  • ¼ cup sliced kalamata olives
  • ½ cup packed fresh spinach leaves
  • Pinch of pink peppercorns

Directions

Brush both sides of the eggplant slices with oil, and salt. Grill over medium heat on an outdoor grill or on a rack set over a sheet tray in a high-temp oven. This will take 8-10 minutes, turning once, until tender. During the last minute of cooking, add the sliced rolls, face down, to toast.

Construct your sandwich: Layer, dividing among the four toasted rolls, from bottom to top, spinach, eggplant, tomato, red onion, vinaigrette, olives, and cheese. Pop the sandwich back in the oven or atop the grill, covered, to melt the cheese. Sprinkle with a pinch of freshly cracked pink peppercorns just for pretty, not necessary).

  • Nutrition per serving:
  • 310 Calories
  • 2 ½ Carbohydrate Choices
  • Elliecoo Rating: ★★★★★
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11 Comments

  2. @elliecoo

    I make something similar, and probably less Greek, but I don’t throw in the provolone (much as I love it) or the peppercorns, which are not Greek, and I could strip an entire olive orchard, so I would add more…

    I have exciting food-related news from Casa Encantada. Attentive readers will remember that Better Half is at that idiotic week-long junket. Am I getting so much as a text? No. I hope he’s still alive, but if he’s not I’m going to be a very rich man.

    That’s not the point. So, he laid in a lot of food for me so I invited my adorable French dogwalker and her two roommates (both French) AND my physical therapist, his wife, and his college freshman son to join me for dinner. The DW and the PT are going to be dropping by anyway and doing their good work, so why not.

    What have I done? I’m going to make stuffed shells, those feed a crowd, and if the weather holds I’m going to herd everyone up to the roof. Wish me luck!

      • It should be very fun and multi-culti. I chose stuffed shells because they’re so easy and vegetarian and (I hope) won’t offend anyone’s cultural or palate sensibilities. I don’t think anyone’s lactose-intolerant.

      • Well, it is not like the old days, in that Better Half won’t be here and, directly or indirectly (through insurance; good luck with the physical therapy!) I only know my guests because we pay them. But they work long hours and the DW and the PT have been to the apartment and they know I’m not some kind of psycho. A hoarder, oh yes. But that’s BH, conserving paper copies of who know what. It’s partly my fault, because you can’t just throw away paper, it’ll be left on the street to be “recycled,” (this doesn’t happen) and your details might be stolen, so you have to recycle it yourself in your home shredder and I have been appointed shredding elf. And I am doing a very bad job of it.

  3. *does eggplant v bacon math*

    sorry couldnt resist

    honestly sounds good 🙂

    just couldnt resist the bacon joke*

    …

    *better be proper british bacon from denmark tho…coz the shit we have here is enough to turn me almost vegetarian

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