Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, meatballs dressed in eggplant. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Hearty eggplant is one of the best vegetable substitutes to make these luscious, meatless "meatballs". Whether you serve them as a meatless main course piled on top of zoodles or pasta, or served as an appetizer, these eggplant meatballs are delish! These hearty, delicious eggplant morsels can be used as a replacement for meatballs, or they can be fried into patties and eaten like burgers.
Meatballs dressed in eggplant is one of the most popular of current trending meals in the world. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. Meatballs dressed in eggplant is something that I have loved my entire life. They’re fine and they look wonderful.
To get started with this recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have meatballs dressed in eggplant using 17 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Meatballs dressed in eggplant:
- Prepare 5 eggplants
- Make ready For the meatballs
- Take 250 g ground meat
- Prepare 1 onion finely chopped
- Prepare 1 egg
- Prepare 2 slices soaked stale bread
- Take 1 tbsp vinegar
- Make ready 1 tbsp fresh or dried spearmint
- Make ready 1 tbsp oregano
- Make ready 2 tbsp olive oil
- Prepare salt, pepper
- Prepare For the sauce
- Prepare 300 g tomato sauce
- Take 1 clove garlic
- Prepare 2 tbsp olive oil
- Make ready salt, pepper
- Take 1 tsp sugar
An old woman in a soiled white apron stood at the top of the stairs leading to a basement trattoria a cigarette dangling out of her mouth. When the water is boiling put the eggplant in. Press them down once in a while because they like to float on the surface. Eggplant makes a great meat substitute in many dishes.
Steps 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.
Try these hearty eggplant meatballs for a great vegetarian alternative! I love growing eggplant in my vegetable garden, and even though it can be a temperamental plant to grow, once it's established it will keep giving and giving all season long. I toasted them up and busted them into the food processor bowl with my hands. 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.
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