Smashed Garlic and Avocado Vegetable Sandwich

It's confession time here on The Domesticated Wolf: I love carbohydrates. Low-carb diets be damned, I can't pass up good bread. 

Our local farmers market offers a lovely selections of artisanal products.

I recently bought plush multigrain rolls for veggie burgers and had two leftover. More sandwiches! Goodie goodie...

Ingredients for two sandwiches:

1/2 eggplant, sliced 

1/2 zucchini, sliced 

1/2 onion, sliced 

1 whole tomato, sliced 

2 cloves garlic, peeled

1/2 avocado

1 oz good blue cheese

Olive oil

Salt + cracked black pepper

2 doughy sandwich rolls

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 400

2. Slice eggplant, onion and zucchini and peel the garlic  

3. Salt eggplant, set aside and let sweat 15 minutes

4. In a heavy-bottomed, cast-iron skillet coated with olive oil, caramelize the onions over medium-low heat, remove from heat when finished

5. With a damp paper towel, remove the liquid and any residual salt from the eggplant

6. With a pastry brush, coat both sides of each eggplant and zucchini round with olive oil, season lightly with salt and pepper 

7. Place the eggplant on a greased baking sheet, cook for 15 minutes in the oven, then flip, cook another 15 minutes

8. When the eggplant has cooked on one side, place zucchini in the oven for about 15 minutes, or until well roasted (zucchini can cook down very quickly, so be mindful)

9. With 10 minutes left on the zucchini timer, place whole garlic cloves on the same baking sheet as the vegetables and allow to cook until soft

10. With 3 minutes left on the zucchini timer, evenly distribute blue cheese on the zucchini, allow to melt

11. Toast the bread

12. Slice the tomato

13. Remove all roasted vegetables from the oven

14. On a plate, smash the garlic into a spreadable paste

15. On one side of the bread evenly spread the avocado, on the other evenly spread the roasted garlic paste 

16. Finish building the sandwiches: eggplant, blue cheese zucchini and sliced tomato, top with caramelized onions

Some of what you'll need:

Roasted eggplant:

Blue cheese zucchini:

Starting to stack:

Finished product:

Someone Boo called me crazy for making a sandwich with so many moving pieces. Until he tried it! The combination of cooked and raw foods is the bomb - in least dangerous way possible (safety first!).  Plus who can argue with any excuse for garlic, avocado and caramelized onions (my favorite foods!) in one bite? Wham, bam, thank you ma'am. 

What's your favorite sandwich?  Hope you enjoy...

xx,

The Future Mrs. Wolf