With roasted eggplant, tomatoes and garlic tossed in an herby lemon tahini sauce, this sheet pan halloumi recipe is an easy vegetarian meal.
Now that we are firmly into September, I am in the final 4 weeks or so of my annual farm share subscription. It’s been a fantastic spring, summer and fall as usual.
Each week my emotions have ranged from excitement to panic when I’m completely overwhelmed with the quantity they pack into a single fruit and veggie box.
There is always a learning curve. I make discoveries and experiment—not everything is a success.
What always works for me is a simple rule: when in doubt, roast.
If I have more than I know what to do with, I dice the veggies, toss them in olive oil, season them with salt and pepper and just roast them in the oven.
This tactic has inspired many sheet pan meals including this roasted eggplant and tomatoes with halloumi.
Magical things happen when you roast a pan full of veggies, especially when you add an awesome and bakeable cheese like halloumi.
The flavor of this salty cheese from Cyprus goes so well with eggplant and tomatoes. It has a lot of personality!
Also while everything is in the oven roasting, I make grains for a side dish. Couscous, quinoa and barley are typically what I stock in my pantry, so I pick whatever I have on my shelves.
I use a food processor to make a sauce that’s a mix of lemon juice, tahini, parsley and roasted garlic.
Besides the tomatoes and eggplant, I sneak a few garlic cloves, with their skins-on, onto the sheet pan. Once they are roasted, I pop them out of their skins to puree with the rest of the ingredients.
You can toss the roasted eggplant, tomatoes and halloumi with the herby sauce right on the sheet pan when it’s out of the oven.
This is what you need for this eggplant tomato recipe:
You can keep things really easy. Just serve the eggplant, tomatoes and halloumi with grains.
Go with whatever you have in your pantry. That can be couscous, barley, quinoa, farro or even basic brown rice. By combining everything with grains, it really turns it into a filling meal.
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Great, easy recipe! Loved the sauce and the steps made sense. Thank you.