Turkish Stuffed Eggplants
Description
The recipe won't take much time. You can prepare the eggplant filling to your taste, combining different types of meat—beef and veal, for example. For spices, various aromatic herbs work well; you can use a Mediterranean blend, fresh herbs, parsley, and basil. Adjust the amount of hot pepper and salt to your taste. Serve with herbs and sauce.
Instructions
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Step 1
Let's prepare the ingredients.
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Step 2
Clean the eggplants, peeling the skin in strips. Place the prepared eggplants in salted water and leave for 40 minutes. Then drain the water.
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Step 3
Brush the eggplants with sunflower oil and place them on a baking sheet. Put them in the oven for 20–25 minutes. Bake at 200°C.
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Step 4
Prepare the filling. Chop the onion and sauté it in sunflower oil for 3–4 minutes.
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Step 5
Add sweet pepper cut into small pieces and hot pepper finely chopped. Cook for about 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
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Step 6
Add salt, chopped herbs, and garlic. You can add dried aromatic herbs to taste.
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Step 7
Next, add the ground meat to the saucepan and cook everything together for another 5 minutes.
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Step 8
Remove the eggplants from the oven. Carefully open them and use a spoon to make a depression for the filling. Then, sprinkle the eggplants with sugar.
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Step 9
Fill with the minced meat.
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Step 10
Place 3-4 tomato slices on each eggplant.
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Step 11
Next, pass the tomatoes, a clove of garlic, and some of the hot pepper through a meat grinder. Add a little salt. Pour the resulting tomato mixture onto a baking sheet. Place the stuffed eggplants in the oven for 20 minutes.
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Step 12
Turkish-style stuffed eggplants are ready.