Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to my recipe site. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, eggplants with surprise meatballs. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Try them with our Marinara Sauce. We make our sauces slowly so you can make delicious meals fast. Grab a recipe and try now!
Eggplants with Surprise Meatballs is one of the most well liked of current trending foods on earth. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. Eggplants with Surprise Meatballs is something which I have loved my whole life. They are fine and they look fantastic.
To begin with this 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 Round eggplants ( not huge ones though)!cut into halves
- Prepare Ground beef ( lean)
- Make ready Onions ( yellow, or Spanish ) chopped
- Make ready Parsley
- Get Egg
- Get Breadcrumbs
- Take Tomato paste
- Get Olive oil
- Take Garlic- chopped
- Take Tomatoes and bell pepper (red or green)
- Get Black, pepper, cumin, red pepper
The eggplant cane be purees until super smooth or left slightly chunky to give the meatballs a bit more texture. Add eggplant and mix with hands until incorporated. Take out the middle of them and put them into salted water. In a bowl add minced beef, ground onion, salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, garlic clove, corn starch and chopped parsley.
Instructions 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.
Mix and add egg and mix with hand. Put eggplants into the pan and fry them. Introduced to Eggplant Meatballs when eating out in Virginia Beach at restaurant named HOT TUNA. OMG husband & I were enamered w/ how delicious the Eggplant Meatballs were & I immediately was looking for a recipe on line to make at home. If you know me, you know I love eggplant!
So that is going to wrap this up with this exceptional food eggplants with surprise meatballs recipe. Thanks so much for your time. I am confident you will make this at home. There is gonna be more interesting food at home recipes coming up. Remember to save this page on your browser, and share it to your family, friends and colleague. Thanks again for reading. Go on get cooking!