Eggplants are popular vegetables widely used in cooking in many countries of the world. They can be fried, boiled, stewed, baked, marinated, cooked on the grill. Let's consider with you recipes stuffed eggplant with minced meat. This is a very original and at the same time a simple dish that will certainly decorate any festive table.
Eggplants stuffed with minced meat
Ingredients:
- ground beef - 300 g;
- cheese "Mozzarella" - 30 g;
- eggplant - 2 pieces;
- dried basil - 1 teaspoon;
- olive oil;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- bread crumbs - 2 tbsp. spoons.
For sauce:
- cream - 50 ml;
- tomatoes - 5 pcs .;
- salt, sugar, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
To make stuffed eggplants, take "blue", cut them into two halves, sprinkle each salt and set aside minutes for 40, so that all bitterness is gone. Next, rinse the salt with water and take out the flesh carefully, leaving the sides. Then the inside of the eggplants is chopped and fried the flesh in a pan with minced meat and finely chopped onion. At the very end, add salt, dried basil, black pepper and mix thoroughly.
Now we are preparing the tomato sauce : peel the tomatoes, cut into cubes and boil the tomato mass, adding cream and sugar to it on medium heat, seasoning and pepper to taste. "Lodochki" from the eggplant is laid out on a greased baking tray and filled with stuffing. Now, pour all the tomato sauce, sprinkle the top with crumbled pieces of Mozzarella cheese and breadcrumbs. We bake eggplants in a preheated to 180 degree oven for about 20 minutes, until the cheese is completely melted and covered with a ruddy crust. Carefully take the eggplants stuffed with minced meat from the oven, spread on a plate and decorate with greens.
Eggplant stuffed with chicken
Ingredients:
- olive oil - 5 tbsp. spoons;
- chicken fillet - 300 g;
- Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc .;
- eggplant - 4 pcs .;
- champignons - 400 g;
- chopped parsley - 1 tbsp. a spoon;
- salt, pepper - to taste;
- onion - 1 pc .;
- cheese - 150 g;
- garlic - 2 cloves.
Preparation
Eggplant washed, cut the tail, take out the pulp, salt, lubricate, spread on a baking sheet and sent for 15 minutes in the oven. This time, extracted the pulp of salt to taste, set aside for 30 minutes to make the glass all bitterness. In a frying pan fry shredded champignons, squeeze garlic and add chopped parsley. Chicken fillet, onions and peppers cut into small cubes and add to our mushroom roasting. Tush everything together, and then lay out the washed and squeezed flesh of the eggplant. Prepared a mixture of stuffed boats, sprinkled with grated cheese and sent to the oven for 10 minutes. We serve baked stuffed eggplants with hot.