Delicious, juicy stuffed eggplant with minced meat. The dish is perfect for a hearty breakfast or just a snack. How you can experiment with it and what products to replace. Find out all this and much more in a step-by-step recipe with a photo. Video recipe.
Stuffed eggplant is a delicious and nutritious dish. Anything can be used as a filling. These are vegetables, mushrooms, and fish. But the most delicious food is obtained with pieces of meat or minced meat. I offer an interesting recipe for stuffed eggplant with minced meat. This dish can be prepared both for a home dinner and at a festive feast, they will take their rightful place. In addition, with this method of heat treatment, all useful substances are preserved in eggplants. Another advantage of this dish is that it can be consumed both warm and chilled.
If you wish, you can replace the eggplants with zucchini, and supplement the minced meat with any herbs, vegetables, spices and spices. Also, minced meat can be replaced with chicken or turkey. It will also turn out very tasty and tender, while the food will contain fewer calories. One of the must-haves in this recipe is cheese, which is sprinkled on the filling. If you like fried cheese with a crispy crust, then put it directly on the filling and send it to the oven. In this case, the filling will retain its juiciness better. And if you like "stretching" cheese, then add it 15 minutes before the dish is ready.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 355 kcal.
- Servings - 4
- Cooking time - 50 minutes, excluding the time for removing bitterness from eggplant
Ingredients:
- Eggplant - 2 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Cheese - 150 g
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Basil - a few twigs
- Minced meat - 300 g
- Salt - 0.5 tsp or to taste
- Tomato paste - 1 tablespoon
Step by step cooking stuffed eggplant with minced meat, recipe with photo:
1. Wash and dry the eggplants with a paper towel. Cut off the ponytails and cut the fruit in half lengthwise. At this stage, you need to decide whether you will remove bitterness from the blue or not. It is usually found in ripe fruits, but not in young ones. Therefore, if the vegetable is old, then sprinkle the cuts with salt and leave for half an hour. During this time, droplets of moisture will appear on the surface of the eggplant, along with which all the bitterness will come out. Then rinse them under running water and dry with a paper towel.
Next, carefully clean the eggplant pulp with a knife, spoon or other convenient tools to make a "boat". Place them in a baking tray.
2. Cut the extracted pulp into small cubes.
3. In a skillet, heat the vegetable oil and fry the eggplant pulp until golden brown.
4. In another skillet in oil, fry the minced meat, stirring occasionally, for about 5 minutes, until it changes color.
5. Combine minced meat, fried eggplant, tomato paste, chopped basil, salt and black pepper in one frying pan. You can add any spices and spices to taste.
6. Stir the products and simmer for 3-5 minutes over medium heat.
7. Stuff the eggplant with minced meat.
8. Sprinkle the filling with cheese shavings and send the stuffed eggplants with minced meat to bake in a heated oven to 180 degrees for 25 minutes. If the peel of the blue ones is very dense, then pour a little water into the baking sheet so that it steams and becomes softer.
See also a video recipe on how to cook eggplant stuffed with minced meat.
