The beef baked with eggplants in an oven turns out incredibly fragrant, tasty and gentle. Learn to cook it not absolutely usual dish very easily, for this purpose you don't need any special culinary knowledge.
Ingredients:
- 2 eggplants of the average size;
- 1 big onion;
- 4 tablespoons of olive oil;
- 6 ripe tomatoes of the average size;
- 500 g of all-beef;
- 4 garlic zubk;
- on 1 teaspoon of a basil, oregano and thyme;
- fresh leaflets of mint (for decoration of a ready-to-eat meal);
- salt and spices.
Preparation:
- Eggplants it is necessary to wash out, cut off well a fruit stem, and then to cut on circles of average thickness. After that they need to be salted and waited not enough a third of hour. Then these vegetables are washed out in flowing cold water and dried. It will allow to get rid of unpleasant bitterish smack.
- Prepare a baking tray for baking. For this purpose it carefully should be oiled. Then eggplants evenly keep within a baking tray. From above it is necessary to sprinkle them a little oil of an olive and to send to the warmed oven approximately to a third of hour. As a result the core an eggplant has to be quite soft, and edges - a little bit crunchy.
- Cut previously washed out beef on small pieces and miss via the meat grinder. In order that forcemeat turned out more gentle, it should be crushed twice.
- In a frying pan pour in not enough vegetable oil and put it on the heated plate. Then pour into it in advance cleaned, washed and swept the cut onions. It is fried on average fire until it doesn't get a golden shade. Then onions are mixed with ground beef.
- After forcemeat slightly is reddened, it is necessary to pour into a frying pan swept the cut tomatoes from which previously it is necessary to remove a skin, having drenched them with boiled water. Still add the crushed garlic teeth, an oregano, basilicas and also a thyme. Then pour necessary amount of the black ground pepper and salt.
- If in the course of suppression all juice is evaporated, then surely pour in a little water or broth. Stew vegetables with forcemeat about a third of hour.
- Then the bottom of a baking dish needs to be covered with eggplants, and over them to lay out the prepared ground beef. Bake in the warmed oven about 25 minutes.