Eggplant & Rapini Meatball Subs

Ingredients:

for the meatballs:
1/2 lb lean dry reason beef
1/2 lb dry reason pork
one shallot, minced
one clove garlic, grated
1/3 loving cup staff of life crumbs
1/4 loving cup shredded Parmesan
one tablespoon minced basil
one tablespoon minced Italian parsley
one tablespoon ruby-red vino vinegar
one egg
salt
pepper

for the eggplant:
ii modest graffiti eggplants, striped* together with sliced inward 1/4 inch broad slices
one loving cup matzo repast or staff of life crumbs
one tablespoon dried parsley
one egg, beaten

for the rapini:
one bunch rapini, chopped
one tablespoon olive oil
one clove garlic minced
one shallot minced

sauce:
ii tablespoons Dijon mustard
one 1/2 tablespoons chopped olives
one teaspoon mayonnaise

four Italian rolls


Ingredients:
Whisk together the sauce ingredients. Refrigerate until use. Preheat oven to 350.

In a medium sized bowl, add together all of the meatball ingredients. With a gentle hand, combine all ingredients together with cast into one to ii inch meatballs. Bake until cooked through, most xx minutes.

Meanwhile, house egg into a shallow bowl. Then mix together the matzo repast together with the parsley inward a 2d shallow bowl. Coat both sides of each eggplant piece inward egg, together with thus dip both sides inward the matzo meal. Heat most a 1/4 inch of fossil oil inward a large skillet. I advise coating all of the slices together with stacking them on a plate thus they are gear upwards for frying earlier you lot tiddler your kickoff batch. Fry each piece inward the hot oil, most three minutes on each side, until golden.

Saute the rapini, garlic together with shallot inward olive oil.

*I brand vertical stripes using the peeler, leaving merely about stripes of pare on.

My thoughts:

This seems similar an insane sum of run for what is basically a sandwich but it is worth it, I swear. The meatballs bake for roughly the same fourth dimension it takes to tiddler the eggplant thus everything is hot, crisp together with delicious at the same time. Everything merely blends together into the best, most flavorful hot sandwich I've always had.