Eggplant Pizza Subs Recipe

Hey There Friends! How’s it goin?

just getting back into the swing of things here in Waterloo today. My first class this morning was a toughie cuz I was still super tired from travelling yesterday 🙁 Hopefully I’ll be in top form by next week 😀

If you follow me on Instagram or Facebook, you’d have seen all the clean eating meals I made over the holidays. Before I share the recipe for these surprisingly (to me & my family) delicious eggplant pizza ‘subs’ I just want to tell you about what prompted this recent burst of cooking.

7 Day Clean Eating Challenge

A couple weeks ago I was approached by Niki of Overwhelmed Heart to join a 7 Day Clean Eating Challenge group that would run from Jan 2nd to Jan 8th (yesterday). 

I was a little skeptical at first because I figured it’d be hard enough to try staying and eating healthy over the holidays. Clean Eating is a whole other story!

But I eventually decided that I was up for the challenge and signed up…and boy am I glad that I did! Not only did I get to ‘meet’ some awesome people in our facebook group, but I had sooo much fun trying to find yummy ways to eat clean! 

The challenge also had an exercise portion which I didn’t do as well on 🙁 Apparently it’s easier to carry clean foods when visiting relatives than it is to sneak in a workout during the party! I did rock 4 awesome at home workouts though 😀

Instead of tracking my weight before and after the challenge, I too some body measurements and I managed to lose a couple inches around my waist in only 6 days 😀 <- YAY ME!! lol

Overall, I found the challenge was an amazing experience and I’m considering doing another one later on in the year 🙂 

Now onto the yummy-ness

Eggplant Pizza Subs

Let me start off by saying that I am not a huge lover of eggplant but I loved these and will DEFINITELY be making them again! 

Last week a friend of mine messaged me asking for healthy, but tasty, ways to make eggplant and I immediately thought of eggplant pizzas.

The first time I made eggplant pizzas was wayyy back at the beginning of this journey. I found the recipe on Peanut Butter Fingers and decided to give them a try. They were okay, but I never made them again because I usually like my pizzas (yes, even fake eggplant ones) with more toppings.

But then I had the crazy idea to slice the eggplant the long way and my ‘revolutionary’ eggplant pizza ‘subs’ were born 😆

After washing and slicing the eggplant, I realised it would still be hard to pile a bunch on toppings on there, so I decided to scoop carve out the gunk from inside, chop it up and add it as a topping on the eggplant pizza instead.

All I did after that was add the pasta sauce, the filling and top with cheese! I popped it into the oven for about 30 minutes and voila instant, healthy eggplant pizza. 

 One problem I had with this recipe was that I had A LOT of extra filling! At first I wasn’t sure what to do with it, but the next day I roasted it and used is as the filling for a pita. Gotta love a recipe that keeps on giving 😉

Eggplant Pizza Subs

 

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Prep time

20 mins

Cook time

35 mins

Total time

55 mins

 

Serves: 2

Ingredients

• One large eggplant
• 1 tsp olive oil
• ¾ cup pasta sauce (I used one with mushrooms)
• 1 can whole kernel corn
• 2 chicken breasts, cooked and shredded
• 2 tomatoes, diced
• 1 small onion, diced
• 1 cup olives, diced
• 1 cup cheese, grated (I used extra old cheddar)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Leaving the skin intact, carve out the insides and chop into small pieces
3. In a bowl, mix the chopped eggplant and other 'toppings' with olive oil
4. Pour pasta sauce into each eggplant half, add the filling mixture and top with cheese
5. Bake for 30 minutes or until the chopped eggplant pieces are cooked all the way through

Notes

Try different combinations of toppings/fillings with these. *For a completely clean meal, use homemade or clean pasta sauce or substitute with salsa

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What about you?

Have you ever done a clean eating challenge?

Do you like eggplant pizzas? What your favourite way to eat eggplant?

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