Eggplant ratatouille with minced meat and hot sauce: a recipe for a hearty dinner dish

Eggplants can be cooked in many ways, such as ratatouille, stews, babaganoush, and casseroles. They can also be stewed, fried, and made into rolls.

The cook shared a recipe for delicious eggplant with meat and hot sauce on Instagram.

Ingredients:

• 2-3 eggplants
• 700 g of minced beef
• 2 onions
• salt and pepper
• 1 tsp suneli hops

For the sauce:

• a little vegetable oil to fry the onions
• 2 large tomatoes
• 0,5-1 onion
• 1 clove of garlic
• a few leaves of basil
• 1 tsp oregano
• salt, pepper, sugar
• 10-15 g of butter

Method of preparation:

1. Peel the eggplants, slice them 1 cm thick, season with salt, and leave them for 10-15 minutes to release the moisture. Dry them with paper towels.

2. Mix the minced meat with onion, salt, and pepper.

3. In a baking dish with a diameter of 20-22 cm, put the eggplant slices and minced meatballs alternately.

4. Sauce: finely chop the onion and fry until soft. Grind the tomatoes in a blender and add to the onion, cook for about 10 minutes. Then add salt, sugar, pepper, oregano, and basil leaves. Add a piece of butter and remove from the heat in a few minutes. Pour the sauce over the eggplant and put it in the oven, preheated to 180 C for 40 minutes.

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