Hey everyone, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, eggplant & potato bake. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Eggplant & potato bake is one of the most well liked of recent trending meals on earth. It’s simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Eggplant & potato bake is something which I’ve loved my entire life.
To bake a whole eggplant, first pierce the skin with a fork the way you would a baked potato. Eggplant parmigiana or eggplant Parmesan is one of the most popular and iconic vegetarian Italian dishes and this recipe is straight from Italy. Eggplant (US, Australia, New Zealand, anglophone Canada), aubergine (UK, Ireland, Quebec) or brinjal (South Asia, South Africa) is a plant species in the nightshade family Solanaceae.
To begin with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can cook eggplant & potato bake using 12 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant & potato bake:
- Take 1 large eggplant, sliced 1/4" thick
- Prepare 3 large potatos of choice, thinly sliced (I've used red)
- Prepare 1 medium bell pepper of choice, diced (I've used yellow)
- Take 1 small onion of choice, diced (I've used yellow)
- Get 1 pound ground meat of choice (I've used extra-lean turkey)
- Take 2 tablespoon extra virgin olive oil
- Take 2 tablespoon tomato paste (I've used Hunt's brand)
- Make ready 1 tablespoon concentrate beef broth (I've used Bovril brand)
- Get 2 tablespoon fresh basil, coarsly chopped
- Prepare to taste Fresh ground black pepper,
- Take Water
- Prepare 1 block feta cheese, crumbled
Given their tropical and subtropical heritage, eggplants do require relatively high temperatures, similar to tomatoes and peppers (which, like eggplants, are in the Nightshade family). Eggplant is a popular vegetable and a good source of antioxidants. Here, learn about its potential health benefits and some ideas about how to prepare it. The eggplant peel does not have to be removed.
Instructions to make Eggplant & potato bake:
- In a large sauce pan, heat up the oil at medium-high heat, add in the bell pepper and the onion and cook for a minute or two.
- Add in the meat and fully cook.
- Lower the heat, add fresh ground black pepper, fresh basil, tomato paste and concentrate beef broth and mix well. Add a little bit of water to make it saucier and put aside.
- In a oven proof glass dish, layer half of the potato slices at the bottom, top with half of the eggplant slices and cover with half of the meat mix. Repeat once.
- Top the dish with the crumbled feta cheese, cover and cook in a pre-heated oven at 375° for 45 minutes.
- Uncover and cook for another 15 mimutes.
- Serve with a green salad or veggies.
- Enjoy!
Young eggplant and some varieties have a thin skin that holds a lot of the nutritious value, so it can remain and be eaten as is. For thick-skinned eggplant, or if it's a personal preference, you can remove the peel. Leaving it on while cooking makes it easier to handle. Eggplant is the ultimate versatile fruit. (Yep, it's a fruit, not a vegetable — learn more about that here.)Because you can fry it, stuff it, bake it, and grill it, there are a ton of totally. "Eggplant slices are coated with bread crumbs and Parmesan cheese and baked between layers of tomato sauce and mozzarella cheese for a filling Italian-inspired meal," says Dollface. "Add fresh garlic and basil to taste. Eggplant is the best kind of vegetable, which is to say, it's a multi-tasker that can take on many different and delicious forms and be incorporated into all kinds of recipes.
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