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Vegetarian eggplant "meatballs" are nicely seasoned with garlic, thyme, and oregano and held together with panko and Parmesan cheese. 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. Slice the eggplant in half lengthwise and use a spoon to scoop out the flesh (discard the skin).
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have meatballs dressed in eggplant using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.
The ingredients needed to make Meatballs dressed in eggplant:
- Get 5 eggplants
- Make ready For the meatballs
- Take 250 g ground meat
- Make ready 1 onion finely chopped
- Make ready 1 egg
- Get 2 slices soaked stale bread
- Make ready 1 tbsp vinegar
- Prepare 1 tbsp fresh or dried spearmint
- Get 1 tbsp oregano
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare salt, pepper
- Prepare For the sauce
- Make ready 300 g tomato sauce
- Make ready 1 clove garlic
- Take 2 tbsp olive oil
- Get salt, pepper
- Prepare 1 tsp sugar
Easy as making meatballs, these balls are meatless. You could even shape these into patties for a vegetarian burger! My fiancee loves having meatballs with pasta, but I sometimes tire of having so much meat! Mix everything but the breadcrumbs when eggplant is cool.
Instructions to make Meatballs dressed in eggplant:
- Cut the eggplants into thick strips, spread them out on a baking tray lined with greaseproof paper, sprinkle with a little olive oil and bake using the grill on both sides.
- Knead all the ingredients for the meatballs and place the mixture in the fridge for one hour.
- To make the sauce, sauté the garlic for a bit in the olive oil and discard it. Add the rest of the ingredients and boil for 10-15 minutes. Let the sauce cool a little.
- Form small meatballs and wrap each one with an eggplant strip. Place the rolls in a pyrex baking tray, pour the sauce over them and cover the baking tray with a lid or aluminum foil.
- Bake at 180°C for about 1 hour.
Then add breadcrumbs and mix until you get the consistency you want to form the balls. Mince half cup loosely packed Italian parsley leaves and one garlic clove and the olive oil and combine with egg and breadcrumb mixture. Little Lamb Meatballs in a Spicy Eggplant Tomato Sauce - Please Come Out with Your Hands and Forks Up. As far as the easy part, well, that is a more relative term. There are no difficult techniques here, and after cutting up an eggplant and onion, most of your prep is done.
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