Happy Meatless Monday! Welcome to December where Tina Muir and I are hoping to have some “Holiday Meals Made Healthy” recipes to link up. Of course you can link up any healthy Vegetarian recipe-it’s just a suggestion. I’m sharing my Meatless Main Dish from Thanksgiving “Quattro Vegetali Bake” hope you enjoy it. It made a great main dish for vegetarians and a great side dish for the rest of the family and those looking for a gluten free option.
- 2 portobello mushrooms-sliced thinly
- 2 zucchini sliced about 1/4 inch thickness
- 2 tomatoes sliced
- 3 baby eggplant-sliced
- 1 can 15 oz of diced tomatoes
- 1/4-1/2 cup parmasean cheese
- Olive oil, salt, pepper,oregano, basil & red pepper
- Pre heat oven to 375
- spray baking sheet with cooking spray and line with sliced eggplant
- Sprinkle generously with olive oil, kosher salt & pepper
- Bake for 15 m until eggplant softens-remove
- Using a 9×13 casserole dish alternate layers of eggplant, tomato, zucchini and tomato standing up
- (see photo for further guidance)
- Sprinkle with pepper, kosher salt, oregano, basil and red pepper (if desired)
- Pour can of tomatoes over top
- Sprinkle on Parm cheese
- Bake for 30-40 minutes until cheese is browned
- Allow to sit for a few minutes before serving
We’d love to see some of your Holiday Favorites over the next few weeks. Stay tuned for my healthier version of a Hanukkah favorite next Monday.
Note: The Ultimate Coffee Date comes back this Saturday and we’d love to have you join us for a cup virtually of course. Details above. 
What’s your favorite Holiday Meal? How do you make it healthier?
I love things like this! Great idea, and I like that you used mushrooms, I could eat mushrooms for veggies every day, especially portobello ones! Hoping we have lots of other holiday favorites today!
I feel the mushrooms really give it a heartier feel and more satisfying as a main dish
me too! too bad my husband doesn’t like them. I’ll hoard the mushrooms though, gladly! hehe
It was really yummy!
This looks awesome! And super simple too, which I love.
Every Christmas Eve my family and I go to my grandma’s country club and they always have Prime Rib. I know that will not get your fancy but it always reminds me of the holidays!
It is really easy and so good. True, I am not a prime rib girl but don’t tell anyone-my husband loves it!
Have to say that I don’t even need the cheese! But I would probably put cottage cheese on it, and make it like a deconstructed eggplant rifle like I made this summer. Mmmmmm
That could be good too! I love eggplant anything 🙂
yeahhh for massive piles of veggies!! I can’t do all the cheese, but maybe with a cashew cheese!
It is really easy! You could cut the parm if you wanted to. Cheese gets me through my day 🙂
This looks fantastic! Love how easy it is to make!
Super easy and satisfying-so no excuses not to eat healthy right?
That looks delicious! My favorite holiday time meal is a lentil wellington. It’s healthier than most holiday meals but still looks really festive and tastes delicious. I’m sure I’ll be posting about it sometime soon 🙂
Ooh that sounds good-you will have to add it to our recipe link up. Not sure if it is veggie or not?
Yep, it’s veggie and easily vegan-ized too 🙂 I’ll definitely add it to the link up.
Great hope you enjoy! Thanks
That looks like it was super easy to prepare and super tasty! Another one for me to try real soon! Keep these great recipes coming!!!
Ohhhhh This looks delicious! I would have to remove the cheese but I’m not even sure it needs it! Pinning for later. I think I can make this a whole30 side dish!
Awesome! Let me know if you give it a go!
YUM. That looks amazing! I think my kids would even love it.
I bet they would! Let me know if you give it a try
Veggies and cheese! Nothing better than that 🙂
I have made something similar to that buton the grill. This would be perfect to make in the oven now that the grill has been put away for the season.
Exactly that’s what I was going for. I miss my grilled veggies in the winter.
Amen sister! My favorites
Dinner. Tomorrow. This is happening 🙂 Cheese is the one reason I could never go Vegan. We get our cheese locally, but yeah, I can’t give it up 😛
Me too! I’ve been a vegetarian my whole life but who can live without cheese and why??
That looks super easy and pretty! I love how you stood up the veggies like that 🙂 anything with mushrooms gets my vote!
Very easy and really satisfying with the mushrooms. Enjoy!
I absolutely love roasting vegetables in the fall. This combination sounds great!
Thanks! it turned out really well and I think everyone enjoyed it.
Hmm, I could totally go for this if I left out the eggplant… I may have to try a version with some other veggies. I love baked veggies and everything is better with cheese!
Everything is better with cheese! You will have to come over and I will cook for you one day
That looks so good and yummy! I am dairy free but I may spurge and get some vegan cheese to try this out with. I am not sure my family would be so keen if it had nothing on top.
A little parm goes a long way maybe you can sneak some into their food. I hope you enjoy it!
Yum!! I think I need to make this soon – plus a little tempeh for some extra protein goodness. 🙂
I thought about adding in a protein then didn’t bc I didn’t think the relatives would like it. May try that next time. Thanks!
I feel the same way about mushrooms. They just make any veggie dish heartier!
Great post and thank you for the link up!
They do don’t they?! Thanks for joining us again it’s fun to see all the recipes in one place
Lovely. And even without the meat, the portobellos make it filling. This looks fabulous!
Thanks! I think the mushrooms do give it a heartier feel.
This looks so good! If I wasn’t sick and single momming it with my husband away from work it would be dinner tonight.
Oh good luck with that! Hope you feel better 🙂
The first time I decide to participate… I anticipated it this weekend, took photos, prepared my post… and when I went to link up, I realize it is very similar to your recipe. Too funny ! Great minds think alike !
No problem at all! Can’t have too many veggies-link up anytime
Yum look at all of those beautiful veggies!
They were really good! Hope you give them a try
mmm veggies and cheese is a match made in heaven!
It definitely is for me!
These look fabulous. I’m going to have to hold onto this, they look like they would be fun to try while camping and maybe even trying to cook on the grill:)
Let me know if you give it a try that way I’d love to know how it came out. I’m not a camper 🙂
Looks like a yummy veggie recipe!
It was great-hope you give it a try
I can never get enough of veggies! I bet this was a hit at your Thanksgiving table. I am missing my garden and summer fresh veggies right now!
I know! I am trying to find creative ways to make them when I can’t grill.
Yummy! I love meatless Mondays… but I am not a foodie blogger so I never remember to share photos or the recipes! 🙂
It was great! Never thought I would be a food blogger either just kind of happened. 🙂
Oh yum this looks very easy to make. I would couple it with some rice (don’t judge) or some quinoa. Thanks for sharing your awesome recipes!!!
If it hadn’t been Thanksgiving I would have had some quinoa or rice as well. Hope you give it a try
This is definitely a delicious and healthy weeknight dinner that I will be making for myself and my vegetarian family. Thanks for the idea!
Thanks so glad you like it! Thanks for stopping by 🙂
This looks delicious. I love that I can make it vegan by skipping the cheese, or using a vegan version.
Thanks! You can certainly make it vegan. I love my cheese!
I have to admit that growing up my mom wasn’t much of a cook (sorry mom!) and we ate a lot of boiled veggies with our holiday meals – it actually taught me an appreciation for the natural flavour of veggies and our Christmas dinner was actually pretty healthy. I will have to try this recipe for something different (and flavourful!).
Oh my mom cooks very differently than I do too! I think this appeals to everyone hope your family likes it
This looks yummy. As soon as I’m better I’m making this 🙂
Thanks! I think you would like it 🙂