Mediterranean
Beef Stuffed Eggplant
Beef Stuffed Eggplant is Mediterranean home cooking, eaten at dinner. On the plate it is the dish at the centre. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
- 4 eggplants
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 onion
- 3 garlic cloves
- 2 tomatoes
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 1 green bell pepper
- 1/3 cup olive oil
- 1/4 cup chopped parsley
- 1 tsp ground cumin
- 1 tsp salt
How to cook it
- Heat the oven to 400F.
- Peel the eggplants in stripes, brush them with olive oil, and roast them whole until soft, about 25 minutes.
- Meanwhile brown the ground beef with the onion and garlic, then stir in the chopped tomatoes, tomato paste, cumin, parsley, and salt and cook 10 minutes.
- Cut a lengthwise slit in each roasted eggplant and gently open a pocket.
- Spoon the beef filling into each eggplant and top with a strip of green bell pepper.
- Return them to the oven and bake until the eggplants are very tender and the filling is bubbling, about 25 minutes.
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand. Beef Stuffed Eggplant carries none of them. That is a checked answer rather than an ingredient list nobody read.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | No |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Bands, not numbers. Dinejot does not weigh anybody's food, so it says light, moderate or hearty and stops there. This dish was read and set by hand.
- Calorie band
- Hearty
- Protein
- High
- Protein quality
- Complete
- Food groups it covers
- Meat or fish and Vegetables
- How this was set
- Hand audited
When to cook it
Beef Stuffed Eggplant takes about 75 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is a proper project. It is eaten at dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
More to cook
Cooked from the same things
Other dishes built on eggplant, beef, and tomato.
From the same kitchens
More cooking from the United States.
Does the same job on the plate
Swap any of these in when you want a meal the same shape.
Cook this with your whole family
Dinejot plans breakfast, lunch and dinner as whole plates, built around the cooking you call home and filtered for the allergies at your table.
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