My kids and Steve all dislike eggplant! Fortunately though they all enjoyed this recipe.
If you have others who are skeptical, call it melanzane ripiene and they'll never know it is eggplant (this is Italian for stuffed eggplant)!
Very quick and easy stuffing in your Thermomix and spiced up with ThermoFun Moroccan seasoning
ThermoFun – Week 17 – Stuffed Moroccan Eggplants
Ingredients
- 2 medium/large or 3 small eggplants
- 1 garlic clove, peeled
- 1 onion, peeled and halved
- 20g olive oil
- 1 tablespoon ThermoFun Moroccan Spice
- 100g basmati rice (uncooked)
- 250g ThermoFun Passata
- 20g TM vegetable stock concentrate
- 500g lamb mince (or beef)
- 150g boiling water
- 100g feta, crumbled
- fresh coriander leaves for garnish
Instructions
- Pre heat oven to 200°C.
- Halve eggplants lengthways. Cut ½ cm border around the edge of each eggplant half. Score within the border in a diamond pattern. Use a melon baller or teaspoon to scoop out the flesh.
- Place scooped out flesh of eggplant, garlic, onion, oil and Moroccan spice into TM bowl and chop 4 sec / speed 5. Scrape down and sauté 5 mins / Varoma / speed 1 / MC off.
- Add rice, passata, stock and water.
- Place lamb into simmering basket and cook 7 mins / Varoma / speed 2 / Reverse.
- Break up mince with spatula and cook a further 3 mins / Varoma / speed 1.
- Carefully tip mince into TM bowl and with aid of spatula coat mince with sauce.
- Scoop generously into eggplants, cover with foil and bake in oven for 45 mins.
- Uncover and sprinkle with feta and spray with olive oil. Cook a further 15 mins or until the eggplant is tender and the top is golden.
- Serve topped with coriander and a leafy green salad.
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Jenny Sullivan says
Giving this a go with quinoa instead of rice fingers crossed the Sully mob don't notice. Trying to be more healthy.
thermofun says
Hope it goes well Jenny and that the kids don't notice! :)
Tania says
Delicious! Eggplants are plentiful at the moment and this a great recipe to use them. So flavoursome. I hadn't tried it like this before but so glad I did. Thanks