Eggplants are served as a main dish, warm salad, appetizer or side dish. They are combined with meat, poultry, mushrooms, walnuts, and various vegetables. The aromatic fruits are prepared on the grill, in a sleeve, in foil, in pots or in a slow cooker. Five recommendations will help you bake eggplants in the oven as quickly and deliciously as possible.
- Bitterness. The blue ones contain solanine, a substance that gives the fruits bitterness. To prevent the slices from becoming bitter, soak them in salt water for half an hour before cooking.
- Age . Ripe fruits take a little longer to cook. Fry them first - this will add softness and reduce cooking time. Young vegetables can be baked immediately.
- Quality . Fresh specimens have a bright blue-black peel, juicy pulp with a small proportion of seeds.
- Drying. Sliced vegetables will cook faster if you dry the slices before cooking.
- Slicing. Shredded slices are cooked for no more than 15 minutes at a temperature of 180°C; baking whole fruits takes a little more than half an hour.
Eggplants stuffed with carrots and garlic
There are a great many recipes for stuffed eggplants; minced pork or beef is most often used as a filling. Vegetarians prefer stuffed vegetables. The most popular in such recipes are carrots and garlic.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 3 pcs.
- Carrots – 2 pcs.
- Onions – 2-4 pcs.
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 4-5 cloves.
- Hard cheese – 150 gr.
- Mayonnaise, pepper, salt.
- Oil.
Algorithm:
- The first step is to get rid of the bitterness contained in the eggplant pulp. To do this, rinse the fruits and cut off the “tail”. Cut each blue fruit in half and add salt.
- After 20 minutes, press down lightly to drain the juice. After this, carefully cut out the middle with a spoon or small knife.
- Cut the eggplant pulp into cubes, grate the fresh carrots, grate or chop the onion too. Chop the tomatoes. Chop the garlic cloves.
- Sauté vegetables in oil, starting with onions, adding carrots, tomatoes, and garlic one by one.
- Place the almost finished filling into eggplant boats. Add salt. Lightly coat with mayonnaise and pepper.
- Now sprinkle with cheese and bake.
Since the filling is almost ready, the dish is prepared very quickly. And it looks great!
Cooking eggplants
Let's wash the berries. Let's shorten the stalks. There is no need to cut them off completely. They will strengthen the ends of the eggplants. They will not be allowed to tear when stuffed.
Then carefully roll each eggplant on all sides with a rolling pin. The fruits should become soft. This fruit will contain more filling.
When rolling out eggplant with a rolling pin, be careful! The berry should not crack.
We make a cut on the “broken” eggplants. We retreat literally a centimeter from the spout. Cut to the tail.
Pour water into a deep bowl. Add salt: 2 tablespoons per liter. Dip the berries into the solution.
Set the bowl aside for half an hour. Let the bitterness come out of the eggplant.
After the time has passed, we take it out. Gently squeeze it out.
Place a pan of water on the stove. Salt to taste. When the water boils, drop the eggplants into it. Cook for 20 minutes. Then we take it out. Let cool.
Eggplant stuffed with vegetables baked in the oven
Not only carrots and garlic are worthy of becoming the main products in eggplant filling. The little blue ones are also “loyal” to other common vegetables. You can prepare the following assorted vegetables as a filling.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 2-3 pcs.
- Bell peppers – 3 pcs. different colors.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Chicken eggs – 1 pc.
- Salt, favorite seasonings.
- Oil for frying.
- Greens for decoration.
Algorithm:
- The technology is simple, but takes a long time, since it is necessary to wash all the vegetables and cut off the “tails”.
- Cut the eggplants crosswise into long boats, place them in salted water, and press with a lid.
- Chop the remaining vegetables, cut some into cubes, finely chop some, for example, onions and garlic, grate the carrots.
- Place the blue ones in the oven for 10 minutes. They will become softer and the middle will be easy to pick out. Cut it into cubes too.
- Sauté the vegetables in a frying pan, adding the eggplant cubes last.
- Season assorted vegetables with salt and pepper. If desired, add a spoonful of soy sauce.
- Grate the cheese and mix with the beaten egg.
- Place the vegetable filling in the eggplant boats and spread the egg-cheese mixture on top. As a result of baking, you will get a very tasty and very beautiful crust.
These eggplants are equally tasty hot or cold, so you can cook large portions and have some left over for breakfast.
Eggplant stuffed with minced meat baked in the oven
Continuing the theme of eggplants, I decided to prepare a very tasty dish - eggplants stuffed with minced meat and baked in the oven. Any meat that you love and that you have in the refrigerator is suitable for the recipe: pork, veal, chicken or turkey. You can make an assortment, it will turn out even tastier.
I recommend trying: Eggplant appetizer with tomatoes and garlic
Cooking stuffed eggplants with minced meat does not take much time. Just fry the vegetables and chopped meat, fill the eggplant boats with the filling and bake them until done.
You can add champignons or bell peppers, your favorite spices, to the filling. Using the same principle, you can bake zucchini boats.
Ingredients:
- 2 eggplants
- 350 g chicken fillet
- 1 large tomato
- 1 onion
- 2 cloves garlic
- 100 g hard cheese
- 2-3 sprigs of parsley and dill
- 75 g sour cream
- 100 ml vegetable oil
- salt, freshly ground pepper to taste
How to cook eggplants stuffed with minced meat:
Let's wash the eggplants. Without peeling the vegetables or cutting off the tails, cut them in half. Carefully cut out the core to make boats.
Salt the eggplant boats and leave for 15 minutes. Then rinse them under running water, dry them and grease them with vegetable oil. Place the pieces on a baking sheet and place in an oven preheated to 180 degrees for 15 minutes.
Cut the eggplant core into cubes.
Fry the vegetables until golden brown in sunflower oil, then transfer the eggplants to a separate deep bowl.
Cut the onion into cubes and finely chop the garlic cloves.
Fry the vegetables together over medium heat until golden.
Add them to the bowl with the fried eggplants.
Wash the chicken fillet, clean it and cut it into small pieces. Place the meat in a blender bowl and grind it into a homogeneous mince.
Fry the minced meat in a frying pan until cooked, breaking it into small pieces with a spatula.
Add fried minced chicken to the vegetables, following the recipe for stuffed eggplants with minced meat in the oven.
Wash the tomato and make a cross-shaped cut on top. Place it in boiling water for 1 minute and peel it. Cut the tomato into cubes and add to the bowl with the rest of the ingredients. We will also send finely chopped herbs, salt and spices there. Mix the filling until smooth.
Fill the baked eggplant boats with the prepared filling.
Pour sour cream over the top. Sprinkle the stuffed eggplants with grated hard cheese on top.
Bake the stuffed eggplant boats with minced meat in the oven for 20 minutes so that the cheese melts and turns golden.
We will serve the finished dish immediately, garnishing it with herbs. That's all, delicious eggplants stuffed with minced meat and baked in the oven are ready!
Bon appetit!
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Recipe for eggplant stuffed with cheese
If for some reason there are no vegetables in the house other than eggplants, or the housewife is pressed for time and wants to surprise her household, then you can use the following recipe, which uses hard or semi-hard cheese.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Tomatoes – 3-4 pcs.
- Vegetable oil.
- Salt.
- Greens, for example parsley.
Algorithm:
- The technology is very simple. Wash the eggplant and trim off the tail. Cut crosswise to create long plates joined at one end.
- Salt the prepared blueberries and leave for a while. Press down lightly with your hand and drain the juice.
- Cut the cheese into slices. Wash the tomatoes and also cut into slices.
- Wash the eggplants. Blot with a napkin.
- Arrange in the form of a fan in a baking container, greasing it with vegetable oil.
- Spread cheese and tomatoes evenly between the eggplant slices. You can grate a little cheese and sprinkle on top.
- Place in the oven.
The dish prepares quickly and looks nice. Additionally, the finished dish should be decorated with herbs. Spicy lovers can add garlic to the dish.
Stuffed eggplants in the oven with minced meat and cheese and mushrooms
We wash the eggplants, cut off the ends and cut each into 3 parts so that each part can be placed. Place the prepared eggplants in a bowl and cover with salted water for 15 minutes to remove the bitterness.
After 15 minutes, dry the eggplant pieces with napkins, place them on a baking sheet, sprinkle with salt, pepper and sprinkle with oil. Place the prepared eggplants in the oven at 180 degrees for 15 minutes and cool.
While we prepare the eggplants, chop the peeled onions.
Chop the leeks, put everything in hot oil and fry over medium heat for 12 minutes.
Add garlic.
Chop the peeled peppers and carrots, place them in a saucepan and fry for 10 minutes.
Wash the oyster mushrooms, chop them, add them to the vegetables and fry for 5 minutes.
Add mixed minced meat, salt, pepper and fry for 7 minutes.
Carefully remove the pulp from the baked eggplant pieces with a spoon, but not completely, leaving the bottom.
Place the pulp in a saucepan with a fragrant filling of minced meat and vegetables. Add 1/2 cup of water or white wine and simmer the filling for 10 minutes to form a thick sauce. Let's taste for salt.
Place the eggplants without pulp on a greased baking sheet.
Fill with aromatic filling and leave the liquid in the pan. The remaining sauce can be put on the fire, simmer until it thickens, and serve with the prepared eggplants.
Pour Bechamel sauce over the stuffed eggplants or sprinkle with cheese and place in the oven at 200 degrees for 5-8 minutes.
Serve delicious stuffed eggplants hot with your favorite vegetable salad. Bon appetit!!!
If you like blue ones, I recommend trying a delicious dish - eggplants stuffed with mushrooms and vegetables in the oven. In general, eggplants taste very well with mushrooms. You can find the tandem of eggplants and mushrooms in different dishes. The most famous dishes include vegetable stew with mushrooms, mushroom soup with eggplant and stewed eggplant with mushrooms, eggplant rolls with champignons, oven-baked eggplant with mushrooms and so on.
So, eggplants stuffed with mushrooms simply cannot but be delicious. You can use different mushrooms for stuffing eggplants. It will be delicious with wild mushrooms, oyster mushrooms or champignons. To make eggplants stuffed with mushrooms have a brighter taste, add vegetables or meat, in particular chicken or minced meat.
As for eggplants, try to use young fruits. Choosing eggplants without large seeds is probably a whole science. This time I didn't have much luck with them. Small and elastic eggplants, when cut, were full of seeds. But, since I had already decided to cook eggplants stuffed with mushrooms, I had to use what I had. But even despite this, the seeds and eggplants stuffed with mushrooms and vegetables in the oven turned out very tasty.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 3 pcs.,
- Champignons – 200 gr.,
- Onions – 1 pc.,
- Bell pepper – 1 pc.,
- Salt and spices - to taste,
- Sunflower oil.
Wash the eggplants. Cut off the green part of the stalk and the tail. Using a sharp knife, cut lengthwise into two pieces. Cut out the core. You can cut it evenly with either a knife or a teaspoon. Cut the eggplant pulp into cubes. Place the eggplant boats themselves in a pan of salted water for 15 minutes. This procedure will help make their skin not so bitter.
While the eggplants are soaking, prepare the filling. Wash and dry the champignons with a towel. Cut them into slices (caps together with the stem).
Peel the onion. Grind it into small cubes.
Wash the bell pepper. After removing the stem and seeds, cut it into cubes just like the onion, only larger in size.
Place the chopped onion and bell pepper in a well-heated frying pan with vegetable oil. Stir.
After 2 minutes, add mushrooms and eggplant pieces.
Mix vegetables with mushrooms.
After this, sprinkle the filling for the stuffed eggplants with salt and spices.
Simmer it for 2-3 minutes. This time will be quite enough.
Grease the pan in which you will bake the stuffed eggplants with a small amount of sunflower oil. If you bake them on a baking sheet, cover it with parchment and also grease with oil. Fill eggplant boats with roasted mushrooms and vegetables. Additionally, you can sprinkle them with grated cheese on top.
Place eggplants stuffed with mushrooms and vegetables into a baking dish. Place them on the middle shelf of the oven, preheated to 190-200 degrees.
Eggplants stuffed with mushrooms should spend 20-25 minutes in the oven. Serve eggplant boats with mushrooms hot and sprinkled with fresh herbs - parsley or dill. Enjoy your meal.
You might also be interested in other stuffed eggplant recipes. Stuffed eggplants with chicken breast and champignons also turn out tasty and juicy.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 4 pcs.,
- Chicken breast – 1 pc.,
- Champignons – 200 gr.,
- Hard cheese – 50 gr.,
- Onion – 1 pc.,
- Carrots – 1 pc.,
- Black pepper,
- Salt,
- Vegetable oil.
Boil the chicken breast until done. Cool it and cut it into cubes. Remove the pulp from the eggplants and cut it into cubes. Rub the eggplants themselves with salt and leave for 10 minutes. After this time, rinse them under running water and dry. Grate carrots and hard cheese on a medium grater. Cut the mushrooms into slices. Chop the onion into small cubes.
Fry onions and carrots in sunflower oil. Add eggplants and mushrooms to them. Add salt and pepper to taste, taking into account that the chicken breast was boiled with salt, and the eggplants were also salted.
After 5 minutes of simmering, add pieces of boiled chicken fillet. Fill the eggplant boats with the filling. Sprinkle eggplants stuffed with mushrooms and chicken with grated cheese. They are baked at a standard temperature of 190C for half an hour.
Try also cooking eggplants stuffed with minced meat and mushrooms.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 4 pcs.,
- Minced chicken – 200 gr.,
- Onion – 1 pc.,
- Champignons – 300 gr.,
- Salt,
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.,
- Black pepper,
- Sunflower oil.
As in previous recipes, prepare the eggplants by cutting out the flesh and chopping it into cubes. Place minced chicken in a hot dry frying pan. Salt it and sprinkle with pepper. Stirring with a spatula, fry for 4-5 minutes until cooked through. In another frying pan, saute the onion cubes in oil.
Add sliced champignons and eggplants to them. Fry them for 3-4 minutes. Place the fried blue champignons into the minced meat. Stir.
Taste for salt. Stuff the eggplant boats with the resulting filling. Sprinkle them with grated hard cheese on a medium grater. Bake at 190C for 25-30 minutes.
Eggplants stuffed with wild mushrooms are delicious.
Ingredients:
- Forest mushrooms - 300 gr.,
- Eggplants - 3 pcs.,
- Hard cheese - 80 gr.,
- Mayonnaise - 50 gr.,
- Onion - 1 pc.,
- Ground black pepper,
- Refined oil.
Wash the eggplants. Cut them into two pieces and remove the pulp. Cut the middle of the eggplant into cubes. Soak the eggplants in salted water. Boil wild mushrooms until tender. Place in a colander to drain excess liquid. Cut the onion into cubes. Saute it in oil until white. After this, add mushrooms and eggplant cubes. Salt the filling and sprinkle it with black pepper.
Fry the mushrooms and eggplants for 4-5 minutes, stirring them occasionally. Grate the hard cheese on a medium grater. Place fried mushrooms in eggplant cups. Lubricate them with mayonnaise and sprinkle with grated cheese. Place the eggplants stuffed with mushrooms in the oven. Bake until the cheese is melted and golden brown, 25-30 minutes.
Stuffed eggplants are an appetizing, satisfying and very beautiful dish that will not only be a tasty treat, but also a wonderful decoration for any table, whether festive or everyday.
Stuffed eggplants are prepared simply and quickly, using affordable ingredients that are always on hand. The ideal filling is minced meat, but eggplants can also be stuffed with just vegetables or cereals, creating a new and unusual dish each time. This material contains the best recipes for stuffed eggplants.
The first recipe, for example, will tell you about cooking eggplants with minced meat, rice, fried carrots and onions and cheese. The finished dish will definitely be included in the everyday home menu and will appeal to both adults and children.
Ingredients:
- 1 kg of minced beef and pork.
- 1 carrot.
- 2 onions.
- 7 eggplants.
- 150 g hard cheese.
- 70 g rice.
- 2 tbsp. mayonnaise.
- vegetable oil.
- ground black pepper.
- salt.
Preparation:
1. Cut the eggplants in half lengthwise and scoop out the pulp using a knife or small spoon. Salt the resulting eggplant boats to taste and leave for 30 minutes. This will remove the bitterness from the vegetable. The remaining eggplant pulp can be used to prepare some dish, for example, vegetable stew.
2. Rinse the rice thoroughly and pour boiled hot water for 20 minutes.
3. Chop both onions.
4. Grate the carrots using a coarse grater.
5. Fry chopped vegetables in vegetable oil until slightly golden brown.
6. Add pepper and salt to taste to the minced meat, as well as soaked rice.
7. Mix well.
8. After 30 minutes, rinse the eggplant halves under running cold water and fill with the resulting minced meat. Place the “boats” on a greased baking sheet.
9. Place a small amount of fried carrot-onion mixture on each.
10. Spread mayonnaise on top. Place the baking sheet with stuffed eggplants in the oven. Bake at 180 degrees for 1 hour 10 minutes.
11. Using a fine grater, grate the cheese.
12. 20 minutes before being ready, sprinkle the eggplants with grated cheese. Continue cooking.
13. After the specified time, the stuffed eggplants are ready.
There are a great many recipes for stuffed eggplants; minced pork or beef is most often used as a filling. Vegetarians prefer stuffed vegetables. The most popular in such recipes are carrots and garlic.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 3 pcs.
- Carrots – 2 pcs.
- Onions – 2-4 pcs.
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 4-5 cloves.
- Hard cheese – 150 gr.
- Mayonnaise, pepper, salt.
- Oil.
Algorithm:
- The first step is to get rid of the bitterness contained in the eggplant pulp. To do this, rinse the fruits and cut off the “tail”. Cut each blue fruit in half and add salt.
- After 20 minutes, press down lightly to drain the juice. After this, carefully cut out the middle with a spoon or small knife.
- Cut the eggplant pulp into cubes, grate the fresh carrots, grate or chop the onion too. Chop the tomatoes. Chop the garlic cloves.
- Sauté vegetables in oil, starting with onions, adding carrots, tomatoes, and garlic one by one.
- Place the almost finished filling into eggplant boats. Add salt. Lightly coat with mayonnaise and pepper.
- Now sprinkle with cheese and bake.
Since the filling is almost ready, the dish is prepared very quickly. And it looks great!
Not only carrots and garlic are worthy of becoming the main products in eggplant filling. The little blue ones are also “loyal” to other common vegetables. You can prepare the following assorted vegetables as a filling.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 2-3 pcs.
- Bell peppers – 3 pcs. different colors.
- Carrots – 1 pc.
- Garlic – 2-3 cloves.
- Onion – 1 pc.
- Tomatoes – 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Chicken eggs – 1 pc.
- Salt, favorite seasonings.
- Oil for frying.
- Greens for decoration.
Algorithm:
- The technology is simple, but takes a long time, since it is necessary to wash all the vegetables and cut off the “tails”.
- Cut the eggplants crosswise into long boats, place them in salted water, and press with a lid.
- Chop the remaining vegetables, cut some into cubes, finely chop some, for example, onions and garlic, grate the carrots.
- Place the blue ones in the oven for 10 minutes. They will become softer and the middle will be easy to pick out. Cut it into cubes too.
- Sauté the vegetables in a frying pan, adding the eggplant cubes last.
- Season assorted vegetables with salt and pepper. If desired, add a spoonful of soy sauce.
- Grate the cheese and mix with the beaten egg.
- Place the vegetable filling in the eggplant boats and spread the egg-cheese mixture on top. As a result of baking, you will get a very tasty and very beautiful crust.
These eggplants are equally tasty hot or cold, so you can cook large portions and have some left over for breakfast.
If for some reason there are no vegetables in the house other than eggplants, or the housewife is pressed for time and wants to surprise her household, then you can use the following recipe, which uses hard or semi-hard cheese.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 2 pcs.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Tomatoes – 3-4 pcs.
- Vegetable oil.
- Salt.
- Greens, for example parsley.
Algorithm:
- The technology is very simple. Wash the eggplant and trim off the tail. Cut crosswise to create long plates joined at one end.
- Salt the prepared blueberries and leave for a while. Press down lightly with your hand and drain the juice.
- Cut the cheese into slices. Wash the tomatoes and also cut into slices.
- Wash the eggplants. Blot with a napkin.
- Arrange in the form of a fan in a baking container, greasing it with vegetable oil.
- Spread cheese and tomatoes evenly between the eggplant slices. You can grate a little cheese and sprinkle on top.
- Place in the oven.
The dish prepares quickly and looks nice. Additionally, the finished dish should be decorated with herbs. Spicy lovers can add garlic to the dish.
And yet there is no equal to eggplant, where minced meat serves as a filling. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s pork, mixed with beef, or more tender chicken. Of course, you can’t do without tomatoes and cheese: vegetables will add juiciness, and cheese will add a beautiful golden brown crust.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 2-3 pcs.
- Minced meat – 400 gr.
- Tomato – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 2 cloves.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Herbs, salt and spices.
- A little vegetable oil.
- Mayonnaise – 1-2 tbsp. l.
Algorithm:
- Wash the eggplants according to the recipe; the tails do not need to be trimmed. Cut out the core. Salt the boats.
- Turn the cut-out part into cubes and also add a little salt. Give them time to let out the juice, which will have to be drained to remove the bitterness.
- Using a pastry brush, grease the boats (on all sides) with vegetable oil. Place on a baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Fry the minced meat in a frying pan, add eggplant cubes, then tomatoes, cut into cubes, for example, chopped garlic and herbs. Season the filling with spices and salt.
- Place in boats. Grease with mayonnaise.
- Top with cheese as the final point. Bake until done.
There is room for experimentation; you can add other vegetables or mushrooms to the minced meat.
The main rule is that eggplants must be freed from bitterness, otherwise the final dish will be spoiled. To do this, you need to cut the vegetables and salt them, then drain the resulting juice. You can fill the blue ones with salted water. Let stand, drain and blot dry.
Carrots go well as a filling in company with onions, garlic, and other vegetables. There are recipes in which the filling includes minced meat, cheese, mushrooms, or both.
To get a golden brown crust, you can grease the eggplant boats with mayonnaise, full-fat sour cream, and be sure to sprinkle with grated cheese.
Eggplant boats stuffed with meat and baked in the oven
And yet there is no equal to eggplant, where minced meat serves as a filling. And it doesn’t matter whether it’s pork, mixed with beef, or more tender chicken. Of course, you can’t do without tomatoes and cheese: vegetables will add juiciness, and cheese will add a beautiful golden brown crust.
Ingredients:
- Eggplants – 2-3 pcs.
- Minced meat – 400 gr.
- Tomato – 2 pcs.
- Garlic – 2 cloves.
- Hard cheese – 100 gr.
- Herbs, salt and spices.
- A little vegetable oil.
- Mayonnaise – 1-2 tbsp. l.
Algorithm:
- Wash the eggplants according to the recipe; the tails do not need to be trimmed. Cut out the core. Salt the boats.
- Turn the cut-out part into cubes and also add a little salt. Give them time to let out the juice, which will have to be drained to remove the bitterness.
- Using a pastry brush, grease the boats (on all sides) with vegetable oil. Place on a baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes.
- Fry the minced meat in a frying pan, add eggplant cubes, then tomatoes, cut into cubes, for example, chopped garlic and herbs. Season the filling with spices and salt.
- Place in boats. Grease with mayonnaise.
- Top with cheese as the final point. Bake until done.
There is room for experimentation; you can add other vegetables or mushrooms to the minced meat.
The main rule is that eggplants must be freed from bitterness, otherwise the final dish will be spoiled. To do this, you need to cut the vegetables and salt them, then drain the resulting juice. You can fill the blue ones with salted water. Let stand, drain and blot dry.
Eggplants with minced meat and tomatoes baked in the oven
This is another simple recipe that uses tomatoes to add its juiciness. Thanks to the original baking composition, the treat can be served immediately on a baking sheet.
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Grocery list:
- minced meat (500 g);
- zucchini and eggplant (1 piece each);
- tomatoes (3 pcs.);
- mozzarella (200 g);
- sour cream (2 tbsp);
- one egg;
- spices (to taste).
Time – 1 hour.
Step by step process.
Step 1. Prepare the vegetables - wash, dry and cut into 4 mm thick slices. Also cut the cheese.
Step 2. Salt the zucchini and eggplant to taste.
Step 3. Combine the minced meat with chopped onion and garlic.
Step 4. Season with spices and stir.
Step 5. Assemble the composition - a zucchini disk will be the base, then minced meat, eggplant, tomato and cheese.
Step 6: Repeat the process until you run out of food.
Step 7. Place the pieces sideways on a baking sheet, as in the photo.
Step 8. In a bowl, combine sour cream, egg and salt.
Step 8. Stir until smooth and pour over the workpieces.
Step 9. Sprinkle grated cheese on top.
Bake for 45 minutes at 200°C. Check the result with a fork. Vegetables should be soft. Serve in portions or on a baking sheet.
Description
Eggplant casserole with minced meat
, which we will prepare today, is a close relative of the national Greek dish - moussaka. And the design itself in both recipes is completely reminiscent of lasagna. Be that as it may, the taste of all these dishes is different.
We will use a simple and accessible recipe. We will, of course, cook in the oven. Our homemade casserole with eggplants, tomatoes and minced meat will turn out tastier and more satisfying than any restaurant one. This dish is perfect for dinner and will look no worse even on the holiday table.
The appearance and taste are consistent.
Below is a detailed step-by-step casserole recipe with photos, each stage is described as accurately as possible. Everything to make your preparation of this wonderful dish simple, quick and easy.
Option 1: Classic eggplants with minced meat, baked in boats in the oven
This dish has its roots in Spanish cuisine, where they began to stuff eggplants and make boats. Initially, bechamel sauce was used for them, then it was replaced with ordinary mayonnaise. We choose vegetables of the same size so that they bake evenly. We make minced meat from beef, but you can also use eggplant, pork, chicken, a mixture of different meats and poultry.
Ingredients
- 4 eggplants;
- 150 g cheese;
- 130 g mayonnaise;
- 500 g minced meat;
- 150 g onion;
- 50 ml oil;
- 0.3 tsp. pepper;
- salt to taste.
Step-by-step recipe for classic eggplants with minced meat
We cut off the green tails of all eggplants, carefully remove all the leaves, leaving the tips. Cut lengthwise into two boats. Take a large tablespoon and scoop out the pulp from the eggplants, leaving a crust 0.5 centimeters thick. Sprinkle the boats with salt, grease with vegetable oil, and place in the oven. They will cook for 12 minutes at 180 degrees.
While the eggplants are baking, we need to quickly prepare the minced meat. Chop the onion and pour it into the oil that we have left. Cook for a couple of minutes, stir, add the twisted beef. Cook the onion with the meat until the bloody color goes away.
As soon as the meat turns gray, add the eggplant pulp cut into small cubes. Cook over high heat for a few more minutes until the filling reduces in volume. It's time to salt and pepper the minced meat.
We take the boats out of the oven, quickly fill them with hot minced meat, and grease them with mayonnaise. You can pierce the bag of sauce and apply a thin mesh.
Sprinkle the eggplants with grated cheese and put them back in the oven. Cook for about another half hour. During this time, the minced meat will be baked, a golden brown crust will appear, and the house will be filled with an amazing aroma.
The best additive for eggplant is garlic. It can be added to the filling in any quantity or chopped fresh cloves and sprinkled on the finished dish.
Stuffed eggplant Boat with minced meat in the oven
This is a simple and original treat to serve. The main thing here is to shape the vegetables and stuff them with filling. The preparation is simple, even a beginner can handle it.
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Grocery list:
- eggplants (500 g);
- minced meat (300 g);
- tomatoes (250 g);
- onion (150 g);
- hard cheese (100 g);
- garlic, vegetable oil, herbs, spices (your choice).
Time – 60 minutes.
Step by step process.
Step 1. Prepare the vegetables - wash, cut off the stem, cut in half lengthwise.
Step 2. Make diagonal cuts in each part and remove the pulp, as in the photo. Salt the finished boats.
Recommendation! Don't throw away the insides of the eggplants because they will become stuffing later.
Step 3. Turn the vegetables over, cut side down, and let sit for 30 minutes to drain.
Step 4. Chop the onion and place in a heated frying pan with oil.
Step 5. Add crushed garlic cloves.
Step 6. Combine the mixture with the minced meat. Let the ingredients sit for 10 minutes, then season with spices.
Step 7. After another 10 minutes, combine the minced meat with chopped tomatoes and eggplant pulp.
Step 8. Stir and fry over medium heat for a couple more minutes.
Step 9. Rinse the eggplants and dry with a paper towel.
Step 10. Fill with filling, place in a baking dish and place in the oven to cook at 180°C for 30 minutes.
Recommendations! Check the result with a fork. Boat vegetables should be soft.
Sprinkle the finished dish with grated cheese. Return to oven for 5 minutes. Then serve immediately with original decoration.
Video recipe for baked eggplant boats:
Option 2: Quick recipe for eggplants in the oven with minced meat, tomatoes and cheese
The recipe is simple, quick, but very successful and allows you to prepare a delicious casserole in a short time. We choose minced meat of any type and fat content, fresh and ripe tomatoes, sour cream can be replaced with mayonnaise.
Ingredients
- 4 eggplants;
- 500 g minced meat;
- 1 onion;
- 4 tomatoes;
- 130 g cheese;
- 12 g garlic (3 cloves);
- 150 g sour cream.
How to quickly cook eggplants in the oven
Boil a couple of liters of water, salt well, pour a spoonful per liter. Cut the eggplants into centimeter circles, add them and cook for a minute. We put it in a colander. There the circles should cool a little and also get rid of excess water.
Chop the onion and chop one tomato, add to the minced meat, add garlic and spices. We don’t add a lot of salt, since the eggplants were cooked in salt water.
Place a layer of eggplants in a greased form, apply minced meat on them, grease with half the sour cream. Chop the remaining tomatoes and place on top. Cover with grated cheese and also grease with sour cream.
Place the pan with the eggplants and minced meat in the oven. During the preparation of the ingredients, the oven had to warm up to 200 degrees. Bake for 25-30 minutes.
If the minced meat is quite fatty, then you don’t have to grease it with sour cream, or you can apply a very thin layer for taste.
Minced meat with tomatoes and cheese, eggplants and potatoes in the oven
1. We begin to prepare a casserole of minced meat with vegetables step by step. Wash the eggplants and cut them into rings without peeling them.
2. Rub the circles thoroughly with salt and leave to soak. You also can’t over-salt eggplants, since they absorb everything very well. After some time, the eggplants should release juice, which will remove all the bitterness from the vegetable.
3. Meanwhile, cut the potatoes into thin slices so that they have time to bake and become soft.
4. Cut the onion coarsely into half rings.
5. The eggplants have released their juice, now we wash them and squeeze them well.
6. We also cut the tomatoes into rings.
7. In a bowl, mix minced meat, herbs, salt, pepper, garlic. We definitely take fresh herbs; they not only improve the taste of the dish, but also contribute to its rapid absorption.
8. Three cheese on a coarse grater. This is our future golden brown crust. It is better to take hard cheese; you can use the most inexpensive one, for example “Russian”.
9. Mix cheese with 2/3 mayonnaise (sour cream). We leave the rest for vegetables.
10. Grease the mold with vegetable oil, lay out potatoes and eggplants, if there is room left, like mine.
11. Grease with sour cream or mayonnaise. If we use sour cream, add a little salt. And mayonnaise already contains salt.
12. Place the eggplants on top in a thick layer.
13. Lay out the onions. It will release a lot of juice, and the vegetables will stew in it, so we don’t fry them additionally and don’t add water to the pan. Onions are specially used a lot so that they produce more aromatic juice. But if you don’t like stewed onions, you can add water or broth.
14. Lay out the minced meat and level it with a spoon. It will set in an even layer, making it easy to cut the dish.
15. The last layer is tomatoes (they, like onions, will also give a lot of juice).
16. Spoon the cheese into lumps, then spread it. Be sure to cover the pan with foil so that it does not touch the cheese or with a lid. Place the pan in an oven preheated to 200 degrees for about 1 hour. Everything should be stewed well. After 30-40 minutes, open the oven slightly and look: if the vegetables have released juice that is bubbling, everything is fine. If there is not enough juice (for example, the tomatoes were not very juicy), add a little boiling water. We determine readiness by the softness of the potatoes (you can pierce them with a fork). Remove the foil, return the pan to the oven and brown for another 10 minutes.
17. Sprinkle with fresh herbs and serve. This is a “main course” dish; it is good on its own, as it combines both meat and side dish.
18. Fragrant, juicy, very appetizing minced meat with tomatoes and cheese is ready in the oven. Bon appetit!
Option 3: Eggplants with minced meat, fan-baked in the oven
This version of eggplant from the oven looks very elegant. The recipe will help you out if you don’t have enough meat, but you want to cook something interesting and pamper your household with a delicious dinner.
Ingredients
- 2 large eggplants;
- 250 g minced meat;
- 2 cloves of garlic;
- 120 g cheese;
- 1.5 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 0.5 bell pepper.
How to cook
The eggplants need to be cut into slices, but not to the very end; we make a fan. Fill with salted water and leave the vegetable to soak for half an hour. Then drain the brine, lightly squeeze the eggplants and place them on a baking sheet like a fan, trying to turn the plates in all directions.
Add garlic and chopped bell pepper to the minced meat, salt and season with mayonnaise, add grated cheese. Stir.
We distribute the meat filling over the eggplants, trying to distribute an even layer, then put the fans in the oven for half an hour. Cook at 180 degrees until golden brown.
If the minced meat is weak or very fatty, then you don’t need to add mayonnaise to the filling; season it only with spices.
Eggplant baked in the oven
For this simple recipe you will need:
- 2-3 medium sized eggplants
- salt
- spices or herbs to your taste
- 40-50 gr. cheese (optional)
Preparation:
1. Wash the vegetables, cut off the tails at both ends and cut into rings (as in the photo), or you can bake them in the oven in longitudinal slices.
2. Before cooking, you need to get rid of bitterness. To do this, place the chopped eggplants on paper towels and salt them on top. Leave for 15-20 minutes. Then wipe or rinse off the salt, this will remove excess juice and bitterness.
3. Set the oven to preheat at 200 degrees. At this time, we begin to place the eggplants on a baking sheet or in a baking dish. Grease all the slices with oil on top to prevent them from burning. Then sprinkle spices on top.
4. Place in the oven and cook for 20 minutes until done. The vegetables should be soft and the edges should be brown and crisp. 5 minutes before readiness, you can sprinkle with grated cheese.
Option 4: Eggplants in the oven with minced meat, tomatoes in circles
For this dish, you can again choose minced meat to your taste, but it should not have a weak consistency. Twisted beef, pork, or a mixture of both are excellent. We choose tomatoes and eggplants of approximately the same diameter so that we get neat circles.
Ingredients
- 3 eggplants;
- 500 g minced meat;
- 1 egg;
- 3-4 tomatoes;
- 3 cloves of garlic;
- salt to taste;
- 70 g mayonnaise;
- 150 g cheese.
Step by step recipe
Cut the eggplants into discs, about half a centimeter thick. Soak in saline solution. If the vegetable is not bitter, then simply add a little salt to your taste.
Mix the minced meat with the egg. Squeeze a few cloves of garlic onto the twisted meat. Onions, peppers and other spices if desired. Stir well. Cut the tomatoes into thin slices and slice the cheese.
We take one circle of eggplant, put a layer of minced meat on it, put a tomato, cover with cheese, and then again the eggplant with minced meat. We place this turret on its side, place the next one next to it, and repeat until the ingredients run out.
Lubricate or lightly pour mayonnaise over the vegetables, put them in the oven, at 180 degrees, the eggplant dish with minced meat will cook for 40 minutes.
You don’t have to collect stacks of cheese, but simply pour the dish on top or remove tomatoes from it; everything works out great without them, too.
Eggplant with minced meat and cheese: a simple recipe
This dish is quite easy to prepare, besides. You need few ingredients and a limited amount of time. In addition to the basic set of products, it is worth stocking up on some additional ones. Already for decoration before serving.
Cooking time
It will take you a maximum of 45 minutes to complete the entire cooking process. In the meantime, I’ll bake the eggplants in the oven, I can do other things. For example. Prepare a dessert or light salad from fresh vegetables.
Ingredients
Here are the ingredients you will need:
- eggplants - take two fairly large eggplants, without scuffs, preferably fresh, unground;
- minced meat - choose fresh chilled minced meat, pork is more suitable for eggplants, only 300 grams of minced meat is enough for this dish;
- chicken egg - you will need two chicken eggs, it is better to use large ones;
- onions - just take two medium-sized heads of white onions;
- greens - be sure to leave a small bunch of fresh herbs to complement the dish before serving;
- cheese - here you definitely need hard cheese, Dutch or Russian is ideal;
- spices, salt and pepper, herbs - you can use them to your taste, but it is advisable not to overdo it, since eggplants have a rather delicate taste, it does not need to be interrupted.
This amount of food will be enough for about 3-4 full servings. As a result, the dish turns out to be quite satisfying, it can be used as a second dish: the meat here is immediately cooked with a side dish.
Recipe
Now it's time to remember the step-by-step recipe for preparing our dish.
- First of all, take care of the minced meat. Use chilled minced meat. If you still had to buy frozen, it is recommended to defrost it naturally, at room temperature. If you heat it in the oven, the taste of the final dish will not be as rich. A good solution is to supplement the minced meat with two chicken eggs yourself.
- Mix the minced meat thoroughly, add spices and salt. As a result, the mass should be homogeneous.
- Start preparing the eggplants. They need to be thoroughly washed and peeled.
- Cut the eggplants lengthwise to create identical, beautiful boats. Remove the centers from them and chop them finely.
- Rub the eggplants with spices, but not too much.
- Take the bow. It also needs to be washed, peeled and peeled.
- Cut the onion into medium-thick rings.
- Take the cheese. It needs to be grated, preferably using a medium or large grater.
- Now you need to take foil and line the baking dish with it.
- Place half the onion in the boats.
- The second layer is to lay out all the minced meat you have.
- Then place the onion in the mold.
- The next layer is the remaining eggplant.
- Then make a cap out of grated cheese.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees.
- Place the pan with the dish to bake, first wrapping the edges of the foil.
- It takes a total of 30 minutes to bake. If you want to get a dish with a golden crust, you need to open the foil about 5-8 minutes before it is completely ready. Then you will get a delicious crispy cheese cap.
All is ready! You can serve the dish to the table. Just don't forget to decorate it with fresh herbs. Sour cream and cheese sauce also go well with these eggplants.
Option 5: Eggplants with minced meat and cheese in the oven
Eggplant slices are used for this dish. A very simple way to prepare a spicy and tasty snack. Choose a hard cheese that will melt quickly. Additionally, you will need adjika, sometimes prepared with spicy ketchup or mustard.
Ingredients
- 2 eggplants;
- 180 g minced meat;
- 1 tbsp. l. adjika;
- 2 tablespoons of oil;
- 1 clove of garlic;
- 4 sprigs of parsley;
- 140 g cheese.
How to cook
Grate the garlic and combine with minced meat. Add a few sprigs of parsley, salt and spicy adjika, mix well, this will be the filling for the circles, set it aside.
For this dish, we do not cut the eggplants thinly; we cut them into centimeter-sized circles. Lightly sprinkle with salt, place on a baking sheet and grease with oil. It is convenient to use a silicone brush. Bake for 10 minutes at 200 degrees.
Remove the eggplants and cover each circle with a thin layer of meat filling. We try to distribute all the minced meat evenly. Then grate the cheese and put it on top. You can simply cut it into thin slices.
Return the eggplants with minced meat to the oven for another 15-20 minutes. Cook at the same temperature, then carefully transfer to a dish and serve with herbs, fresh vegetables, and boiled rice.
You can first lightly fry the eggplants in a frying pan or boil them in boiling water for a minute, and then place them on a baking sheet, add the minced meat and bake. Do not forget to soak the pieces if the vegetable is bitter.
Recipe for eggplants in the oven with tomatoes, cheese and mushrooms
A great recipe that has Slovak roots. For this dish you will need:
- 2 eggplants,
- 4 or 5 tomatoes,
- 3 cloves garlic (finely chopped)
- Brie/Camembert or other soft cheese,
- champignons - 200 gr.,
- some breadcrumbs
- 40-50 gr. hard grated cheese
Preparation:
1. First, wash the eggplants, cut off the tails and cut them into rings. Remove the bitterness by sprinkling them with salt. Leave for 15-20 minutes, then rinse.
2. Chop the remaining products. While the eggplants are resting, prepare a baking dish. It is better to take a uniform with high sides. Coat the pan with olive oil and sprinkle the bottom with breadcrumbs. The crackers will absorb some of the moisture during baking. Set the oven to preheat at 200 degrees.
3. We begin to put all the ingredients into the mold. Place half the eggplants on the bottom, half the tomatoes as a second layer, then all the garlic, place all the soft cheese on top of the garlic (it needs to be cut into pieces). Then we make another layer of eggplants, followed by tomatoes, and mushrooms on top.
4.Bake all this beauty in the oven for 45 minutes. After 45 minutes, sprinkle the top of the dish with grated hard cheese. Leave for another 10 minutes. And you're done! Bon appetit!
Option 6: Eggplant with minced meat and cheese in the oven (with champignons)
One of the most delicious options for stuffed eggplants from the oven. Boats are prepared here, but with unusual filling. We choose any type of champignons for the filling; by the way, eggplants also turn out great with pickled mushrooms.
Ingredients
- 5 eggplants;
- 200 g champignons;
- 350 g minced meat;
- 50 ml oil;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 160 g sour cream;
- 200 g cheese;
- 80 g onions.
How to cook
We make boats. To do this, cut all the eggplants into two parts, scoop out the pulp and seeds with a spoon, leaving the skin and about half a centimeter of the vegetable. Immediately cut the pulp into pieces. Grease the inside of the eggplants with vegetable oil and place in the oven for ten minutes.
Cut the onion and champignons into small cubes and pour them into a frying pan, pour into it the oil that remains after coating the eggplants.
Fry the mushrooms for about five minutes, add the minced meat, and after another three minutes the chopped eggplant pulp. Cook for five minutes, add garlic, one spoon of sour cream, stir, add salt.
Fill the eggplant boats with the prepared filling. Use the back of a spoon to compact it a little so that nothing should fall out. Then generously grease with sour cream, bake for half an hour, excess moisture should boil away and the minced meat should brown slightly.
Grate the cheese coarsely. Remove the stuffed boats, sprinkle and bake for another five minutes. If desired, keep the eggplants longer until the cheese browns.
You don’t have to add the scooped out eggplant pulp to the filling, use minced meat with mushrooms, and add the vegetable to stews, caviar, or other dishes.
How to cook “Minced meat with eggplant and tomatoes”
Wash the eggplants and cut them in half, removing the pulp with a knife. Sprinkle the eggplants with salt and let them sit for 20 minutes.
Cut the pulp into cubes and fry in vegetable oil. Then transfer to a separate container.
Finely chop the onion and fry in a frying pan, add minced meat, chopped tomatoes and garlic, salt and pepper to taste. Mix everything and simmer covered for 10 minutes.
Rinse the eggplant boats to remove salt and dry. Place on a greased baking sheet. Bake for 10 minutes, temperature 200 degrees. Then remove the “boats” from the oven and fill them with filling, brushing them with sour cream. Sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for another 10-15 minutes.
Bon appetit!
Option 7: Eggplants with minced meat, baked in towers in the oven
There is a very successful and simple version of the dish, which is easily and quickly assembled on a baking sheet, and also instantly flies off the table. You can cook it with mayonnaise or sour cream, this is not so important.
Ingredients
- 3 eggplants;
- 400 g minced meat;
- 4 tablespoons of mayonnaise;
- 4 cloves of garlic;
- 100 g cheese;
- spices;
- one egg.
How to cook
Cut the eggplants into circles, add a spoonful of mayonnaise or sour cream, stir, place in one layer on a baking sheet, bake for 5-6 minutes.
Mix the egg with minced meat and garlic, add grated cheese. Take out the baking sheet with eggplants. Place minced meat on each circle and spread lightly.
Place the eggplants with minced meat on top of each other, two or three at a time, press down, and grease the top of the tower with mayonnaise. Sometimes they put a slice of tomato or a piece of cheese on it, you can do the same.
Bake eggplant towers with cheese for about half an hour at 170 degrees. During this time, they will brown, stick together, and the minced meat will be ready.
To make the turrets neat, we connect circles of approximately the same diameter. You can place small pieces on larger mugs so that the towers taper towards the top.
Video recipe: accordion eggplant with minced meat baked in the oven
And here is another interesting recipe for preparing eggplants with minced meat in the form of an accordion. As you can see, all recipe names are related to the method of cutting fruits. And they are also cut in the form of boats, fans, circles. Now we’ve reached the accordion.
Watch this short video in which an experienced culinary woman will show you a recipe for preparing a very tasty dish of “blue” ones with meat filling, and even with a delicious tomato sauce.
I wish everyone a pleasant viewing and mastering a new recipe!
Dear friends! I am very glad that today we paid attention to recipes from a delicious vegetable that many people love very much. The recipes are extremely simple. Thanks to the original cutting of the fruit, eggplant dishes look very elegant and are perfect for the holiday table. But we also need holidays in everyday life, so cook with pleasure, with love for those who will feast on the results of your labor. And these, of course, are your closest people - your family. Bon appetit and good mood everyone.
See you again!