Baked eggplants!

I LOVE eggplants!

Easy, healthy-ish roasted eggplants...

Approximate active time: 20 min
Approximate inactive cooking time: 20 min

Ingredients

• Eggplant (medium)
• Tomato (2 medium or one large)
• Onion (1/2 a medium sweet white onion)
• Garlic (3 large cloves)
• Bacon!!! [[leave off for a vegan meal]] (2 slices)
• Olive Oil (enough to cook the eggplants in)
• Thyme
• Basil
• Salt

Instructions

1. Slice the eggplant into 1 inch thick slices. Cover with salt and wrap in paper towels for at least 30 minutes and up to 1 hour. This draws out the water or something... You could omit this step if you were pressed for time
2. Preheat oven to 325* F or 180* C
3. Cook the bacon halfway (it'll get baked, so you don't need to cook it a ton). When it's done cooking, crumble/cut into little bits and set aside.
4. While the bacon is cooking, slice the tomatoes (enough to cover each eggplant slice), slice the garlic into large slivers (not too thin or it will burn during the baking), slice the onions.
5. Saute the eggplants for ~3 minutes a side in olive oil. The olive oil should sizzle when you flick a tiny drop of water onto it. Most of the oil will get soaked up into the eggplant.
6. Coat the bottom of a cookie sheet or glass tray in a thin layer of oil (so things don't burn).
7. Put the eggplants on the tray with a bit of space between each.
8. Layer the tomato, garlic, and bacon bits on top of the eggplants. Arrange the onions around the eggplants on the tray.
9. Put a pinch of basil, a pinch of thyme, and a pinch of salt on each eggplant slice.
10. Bake for ~20 minutes. Check on it every now and then to make sure nothing is burning