Recipe
Turkish Stuffed Eggplants with Beef Recipe
Posted by : unknown
Preparation time : 30 Min
Cooking time : 40 Min
Level of difficulty : Medium
Ingredients
4 servings
- 4 small eggplants
- Filling
- 100 gr regular ground beef
- 2 tbsp chickpeas (in a can)
- 2 tbsp rice, washed and drained
- 1 tbsp dill, chopped
- 1 tbsp parsley, chopped
- 2 fresh onion, chopped
- 1 pinch powdered black Pepper
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 small tomato,
- 1 cup beef stock
- 1 tbsp butter
- Sauce:
- 1/2 lemon juice
- 1 tsp dried mint
- 1 garlic, smashed with salt
Preparation
- Mix all the filling ingredients (ground beef, chickpeas, rice, dill, parsley, fresh onion, black pepper and salt) in a small bowl with a tablespoon.
- Cut off the tops of the eggplants. Discard the insides of the eggplants using a small spoon.
- Stuff the eggplants with the filling you prepared. Don't over fill them, leave some space at the top. Cut 4 small tomato pieces and put one over each eggplant.
- Place the eggplants in a cooking pot. Cut butter in small pieces and put over the eggplants. Pour beef stock in the pot from the edges. Sprinkle the rest of the tomatoes all over.
- Cover the lid, cook over low heat until the eggplants are done which takes about 40 minutes. Turn heat the off, mix all the sauce ingredients (lemon juice, dried mint, smashed garlic) then blend it with the juice in the pot.
- Place the Stuffed Eggplants on a service plate, pour the juice all over and serve immediately. Try serving this dish with Yogurt with garlic.
