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Cooking with Lina đ Stuffed Eggplant
Ingredients:
10 Italian eggplants*
1 cup ground beef
1/4 cup pine nuts
1 small can tomato sauce
1 medium onion
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon black pepper
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
1/4 cup vegetable oil
Pomegranate molasses (optional)
Directions:
- Wash your eggplants very well
- Partially peel the eggplant and cut in the middle with a knife
- Arrange the eggplant in a skillet and sauté with oil until brown on both sides
- Remove from pan
- Use the same skillet to sauté the pine nuts until light brown then remove
- Add 2 tablespoons of oil to the skillet and sauté onions
- When they are translucent add salt, spices, and then the meat
- Once the meat cooks
- Add a drizzle of pomegranate molasses
- Add the pine nuts
- Place the eggplant on a baking tray
- Stuff them one by one
- Gently Add the tomato sauce
- Bake stuffed eggplants at 350 degrees for 30 minutes
- Enjoy! đ
*If you canât find Italian eggplant, use 1 big purple eggplant and cut in circles instead.