Stuffed eggplant in the oven - very tasty and simple

Kitchen appliances and utensils: stove, oven, frying pan, pan, stirring paddle, knife, cutting board, bowl, spoon, baking sheet, grater, serving plate.

Ingredients

Step cooking

You can cook eggplant with minced meat according to a step-by-step recipe with a photo:

1. Wash tomatoes, eggplant and greens under running water. For this recipe, it is better to take eggplants of a small size. We clean the eggplant from the tails and put them in a pan. Add salt, pour boiling water, cover and put on fire. Boil for 10 minutes.
   
2. Rub the cheese on a plate on a coarse grater. Finely chop the onion at this time. Grind the garlic or pass it through a press.
   
3. Dice the tomatoes. For this recipe, tomatoes of meaty varieties are suitable. You can also use canned if not fresh.
   
4. Put the frying pan on the fire and pour a little vegetable oil. We send the onions and garlic to fry until the onions become transparent and gilded.
   
5. Add the minced meat to the pan, sauté with onion and garlic over high heat, stirring with a spatula. In this case, you need to break the lumps that form. Salt, add thyme, basil and pepper. All mix well.
   
6. Add the tomatoes when the minced meat is fried on all sides and turned white. Fry, stirring, until tender. Tomatoes start juice and become soft.
   
7. Put boiled eggplant on a plate so that they cool. Stuffing is also left to cool. Finely chop the parsley. To your taste, you can use dill or other herbs. Pour chopped parsley into a bowl.
   
8. Cut the eggplant along so that they can lie flat on the surface. Cut the middle of the eggplant, making "boats". The main thing is not to damage the skin. Ready “boats” are put in a baking dish.
   
9. Finely chop the middle of the eggplant and send it to the parsley in a bowl. If there are large seeds, then it is better to remove them.
   
10. Pour into the bowl the fried minced meat and mix well. Do not worry if you get a lot of stuffing from minced meat. She is well tamped in the "boat". Add bran to the filling, mix and let stand for 5 minutes. This must be done so that the stuffing gives away excess moisture and is more convenient for stuffing.
    
11. We try the filling on the salt and add salt if necessary. Lubricate the pan with sunflower oil. We turn on the oven to heat up to a temperature of 180 degrees. We stuff the eggplants, ramming the minced meat into "boats" and make a small hill of minced meat on top. Stuffed eggplant spread on a baking sheet. If minced meat remains, it can be distributed over all eggplants, making slides.
    
12. Sprinkle the eggplant "boats" on top with grated cheese and put in the oven for 20 minutes.
    
13. Eggplant should be baked until golden brown. We take the finished "boats" out of the oven, put them on a plate and serve.
    

Enjoy your meal!

Video recipe

We offer you to watch a video recipe for cooking eggplant with minced meat. The plot author demonstrates all the stages of preparation.You can see for yourself that everything is prepared very quickly and simply. And at the end of the plot, you will see how the finished dish looks.