Always spurred by the “let’s cook light to lose weight” wave, here we go today with a light vegetable side dish. These grilled eggplants are also perfect to be incorporated into you salad or – if you are not on a diet – on your pizza, or in a sandwich…or wherever else they will make your skirt fly.

Ingredients:

• Eggplants
• Olive oil
• Mint
• Wine Vinegar
• Garlic
• Salt

Go to the market and get some of this sweet, round eggplants (they have lass skin than the other long and narrow kind)

Cut’ em into slices (about 3-4 mm thick).

Get your griddle hot and grill the eggplants

Once they are well grilled, place’ em on a plate, sprinkle with salt and let cool down

Place the eggplants in a bowl or a container and dress them with fresh mint leaves

Olive oil

and wine winegard

add some chopped garlic cloves and refrigerate to chill.