Eggplant "towers" with cheese, figs and nuts

Ingredients

  • 3-4 eggplants
  • 500 g goat cheese
  • 330 ml cream
  • 100 g unsalted Aegina pistachios
  • 10 dried Evia figs
  • 100 ml Santorini vinsanto (sweet wine)
  • juice and zest of 1 lemon
  • mint
  • thyme
  • 1 bunch of fresh rocket
  • balsamic vinegar
  • salt and freshly ground pepper

Execution

  • Cut the eggplants into slices and fry them over high heat.
  • Add salt, pepper, and fresh thyme, and let the eggplants cook.
  • Beat the cream until it becomes whipped.
  • Make the goat cheese mousse by beating the cheese in a mixer and adding the whipped cream gradually.
  • Finely chop the dried figs and let them soak in the vinsanto.
  • Add the figs, after draining them, fresh mint, zest and lemon juice to the prepared mousse.
  • Place in turrets with layers of eggplant and goat's cheese mousse and decorate with balsamic vinegar, rocket, pistachios, and chopped figs.