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SPLIT EGGPLANT (AUBERGINES) WITH MEAT FILLING

Try this delicious traditional turkish food recipe Split Eggplant (Aubergines) With Meat Filling
Prep Time 1 hr
Cook Time 1 hr
Total Time 2 hrs
Course Main Course
Cuisine Mediterranean, Turkish

Ingredients
  

  • 6 small size eggplants (aubergines)
  • 200 gr. 7 oz. ground beef
  • 2 onions
  • 1 tomato, diced
  • 1 tomato cutted in circles
  • 2 green chili peppers, chopped
  • 3 green chili peppers, for the top of your eggplants, cutted in half and cleaned from their seeds
  • 1 tsp. garlic powder
  • 1 tbsp. tomato paste
  • Salt
  • Black pepper
  • Ground red pepper
  • Vegetable oil to fry the eggplants (aubergines)
  • Water

Instructions
 

  • Peel the eggplants as striped.
  • Rest eggplannts in salted water for about 15 minutes. It will prevent them absorbing the oil while frying.
  • Dry your eggplants and fry with a little vegetable oil (2-3 tbsp.) in a pan. Align your fried eggplants in a baking tray.
  • Start doing your stuffing in the same pan. First of all, cook your 2 onions until tender while stirring constantly. Add your 200 gr. (7 oz.) ground beef, salt, black pepper, ground red pepper and stir until the ground beef turns brown. Add 2 chopped green chili peppers,1 diced tomato, 1 tsp. garlic powder and stir until combined. Lastly, add 1/2 cup water and boil your stuffing for 5 minutes.
  • Heat your oven to 170°C (338°F)
  • Make a cut on the middle of your eggplants from top to bottom. Separate the sides and make a room for your stuffing as pressing in the middle.
  • Stuff your eggplants with the ground beef filling.
  • Put one of your tomato circle and green chili pepper on each eggplant.
  • Dissolve your 1 tbsp. of tomato paste in 1 cup hot water. Pour this sauce equally on your baking tray. Don't pour it on the eggplants, pour it between eggplants so your meat filling won't fall apart while baking.
  • Bake your Split Eggplant (Aubergine) With Meat Filling for 20-25 minutes.
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