Eggplant meatballs

Eggplant "Meatballs"Skinnytaste.com
Servings: 6 • Size: 4 meatballs • Old Points: 6 pts • Points+: 7 pts
Calories: 259 • Fat: 12 g • Protein: 9 g • Carb: 30 g • Fiber: 6 g • Sugar: 7 g
Sodium: 1180 mg • Cholesterol: 39 mg

Ingredients:

• cooking spray
• 1/2 tbsp olive oil
• 1 1/4 lbs unpeeled eggplant, cut into 1-inch pieces
• kosher salt
• 1/4 tsp black pepper
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 2 tbsp chopped basil, plus leaves for garnish
• 1 1/2 cups Italian seasoned breadcrumbs 
• 1 large egg, beaten
• 2 ounces Pecorino Romano cheese, freshly grated, plus more for serving
• 1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley
• 1 (25.25 ounce jar) DeLallo Pomodoro sauce
• part skim ricotta cheese, for serving (optional)

Directions:

Heat the oven to 375°F. Spray a large rimmed baking sheet with cooking spray.

Place 1/2 tablespoon olive oil in a large nonstick skillet over medium high heat. When hot add the eggplant and 1/4 cup water. Season with salt and pepper to taste and cook, stirring occasionally until tender, 10 to 12 minutes. Transfer to the bowl of a food processor and pulse a few times.

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Market Cafe Happy Hour

Happy hour with a good friend is always a good time. I know I did a post on this place before... but here are some new things We tried and loved!!!!

Seared Sea Scallops- With Jumbo sea scallops, potato puree, brown butter, and mache - 14$

Seared scallops are hard to find executed well, and when I mean well I mean well. This was sooooo delicious I honestly wanted to order another one to go home even though I was full from the other things we ate... Ugh what an amazing start to our happy hour!!

The sauteed kale was really good. Really green as pictured here, I would have liked a little pepper on it though. Other then that it was good.

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The gnocchi... I was so mad at my self for not READING the ingredients in this dish. As a new pescatarianism, I omit meat from my diet but am eating seafood. It tasted so good that I was mad and couldn't believe it was pork I had... I stopped eating it and my friend finished it. Had it not tasted so good, I'd still ask the waiter what was in it... Oh well It was good but not for my new diet....

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http://www.marketcafenyc.com/dinner.html

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This was the Friday special. Black linguini with seafood! Salmons, clams, muscles , calamari, oh the works ! we had two orders of this beauty!

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www.tonysnyc.com/ 

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