Stuffed Eggplant

By Erinswan

Stuffed Eggplant

Ingredients

• 2 Tbs olive oil
• canola or vegetable oil to fry eggplant
• 6 eggplants, peeled in stripes lengthwise
• 2 chopped onions
• 2-3 cloves garlic, minced
• 1 diced green pepper
• 1/2 lb ground meat
• 1 diced tomato
• 2 Tbs tomato paste
• 1/2 bunch finely chopped parsley
• 1/4 tsp ground pepper
• 2 tsp salt
• 1 cup hot water
• 1 tomato sliced in half moons
• 3 green banana peppers cut in half lengthwise
• served with yogurt and cooked rice

Details

Servings 3
Preparation time 30mins
Cooking time 60mins
Adapted from gotourturkey.com

Preparation

Step 1

Peel eggplants leaving lengthwise stripes and then put them in salt water for 10 minutes. This helps to remove the bitter taste of the eggplant.
Meanwhile, heat frying oil in a deep pot. Make sure that oil is hot, otherwise eggplant will soak up the oil.
Take eggplants from water and dry them. Fry eggplants whole in hot oil.
After frying eggplants, place them on a paper towel to soak excess oil, then place eggplant in a baking dish.
Heat olive oil in a frying pan. Add onions and cook for 3 – 4 minutes.
Add garlic and diced green pepper and cook for 1 – 2 minutes.
Add ground meat and cook
Add diced tomato and tomato paste to pan. Stir and cook.
Add chopped parsley, salt and pepper to taste. Mix well.
Split eggplants open on one side, but leave the tops and bottom attached.
Stuff eggplant with meat mixture
On top of each eggplant, place 1 half moon tomato slice and 1 half of green banana pepper
Pour 1 cup hot water in baking pan. In 400F preheated oven, bake eggplants 10 – 15 minutes until the green peppers on top are baked.

Serve with rice and yogurt.