Backyard Farms' Offers A Taste Of Summer Year Round

Total Time: 25 mins Preparation Time: 15 mins Cook Time: 10 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 4 backyard beauties tomatoes
• 2 medium eggplants
• 12 ounces buffalo mozzarella, balls
• 4 garlic cloves, chopped
• 12 large basil leaves, chiffonade
• 1 tablespoon of 8-year aged balsamic vinegar
• 2 cups baby mixed salad greens
• kosher salt
• black pepper

Recipe

• 1 peel the eggplant and slice in 1/3ed rounds.
• 2 marinate the eggplant with olive oil, chopped garlic, salt, pepper and 1/2 of the basil.
• 3 grill the eggplant until cooked through then cool.
• 4 slice the backyard beauties and mozzarella the same thickness as the eggplant.
• 5 gently toss the tomatoes and mozzarella cheese with remainign basil, olive oil, salt and pepper.
• 6 stack the eggplant, mozzarella and tomatoes in any order and as high as desired.
• 7 place the napoleons over the baby lettuces.
• 8 drizzle the napoleons and greens with a bit more olive oil and the aged balsamic vinegar.