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After roasting, eggplant takes on a meaty flavor." While the meatballs cook, warm the marinara sauce in a small saucepan. Remove the meatballs from the oven, sprinkle with a little extra parmesan and serve with the marinara sauce. Here's what you need: water, eggplant, water, small onion, celery, garlic, whole wheat breadcrumbs, grated parmesan cheese, fresh parsley, fresh basil, dried oregano, salt, pepper, egg.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have eggplants with surprise meatballs using 11 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplants with Surprise Meatballs:
- Make ready 5 medium Round eggplants ( not huge ones though)!cut into halves
- Prepare 1 lb Ground beef ( lean)
- Take 1 small Onions ( yellow, or Spanish ) chopped
- Get 1/2 bunch Parsley
- Get 1 large Egg
- Take Breadcrumbs
- Prepare 3 tsp Tomato paste
- Take 1/4 cup Olive oil
- Get Garlic- chopped
- Make ready Tomatoes and bell pepper (red or green)
- Take Black, pepper, cumin, red pepper
Reduce heat to low and cover skillet. Mix cheese, parsley, eggs, and bread crumbs into eggplant. Stir with a wooden spoon or your hands until ingredients are thoroughly combined and mixture can be rolled into balls. Try these hearty eggplant meatballs for a great vegetarian alternative!
Steps to make Eggplants with Surprise Meatballs:
- Trim off the green part, soak them in the salty water. About 20 minutes . Put something heavy over them to prevent eggplants flowing around , so you can get rid off bitterness. While you are waiting you start preparing your meatballs.
- To grill or broil Eggplant, cut very small ones in half, cut in halves , Brush each side with oil, add salt and pepper, cook 8 to 10 minutes per side, turning often. When done, the Eggplant will be brown and tender. If you are broiling or grilling very close to the heat, 4 minutes per side may do. They will shrink and will get almost burn
- To prepare meatball: get mixing bowl, chopped onions, fresh Italian parsley, cumin, salt pepper, red pepper, chopped garlic and ground beef, one egg, if very lose , add some breadcrumbs .
- Depends of how big is your eggplant, make the meatballs so they can fit inside of eggplant .
- So far you already took your eggplants out of oven, let it cool, so you can use your tomb make a small hole to place your meatballs.
- After you stuffed the eggplants you have to secure the open side of them, cut small piece of tomatoes and red pepper, close the openings.
- Mix 2 teaspoon of tomato paste with hot water and little bit of salt.
- Poor tomato sauce over eggplant, about 3 cups of sos you should be having. Do not pour lots of sauce into them.
- Close the lit and cook with medium - low heat about 15-20 mints. Until meatballs are ready.
- To serve : after you put the stuffed eggplants in to a plate , pour sauce over them. Serve hot.
Slice eggplant and sprinkle with salt. Mix everything but the breadcrumbs when eggplant is cool. Then add breadcrumbs and mix until you get the consistency you want to form the balls. I love eggplant now, but it took me a while to warm up to it. As an Italian-American, I grew up eating my fair share of eggplant parm, but I didn't have much exposure to the veg beyond that.
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