GET STUFFED EGGPLANTS: A twecipe from @iamromy

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So I've been asking people to submit their recipes online via Twitter (@tweateryfood) or via email and I have my very first recipe share.

This one comes from a friend and former work colleague Romy. Let's be honest, she's a mixed-culture glamazon and one of her passions in life is cooking well and making delicious healthy things (within reason). She also loves to eat but you'd never know that by looking at her.

Eggplants (or aubergines as my overseas friends call them) used to scare me as a kid. Big, giant glossy black things. They look a bit like an alien leave behind and once I made the mistake of biting into one. It's not delicious. However cook them in a bit of oil or stuff them with a lovely filling and it's the direct opposite - amazeballs.


Romy has been kind enough to share her stuffed eggplant recipe - it's got all the things I find delicious in meals - meat, tomatoes, garlic and cheese - plus a whole bunch of other things. Here's the recipe.

Photo from Romy's original get stuffed eggplants

Ingredients

• 3 eggplants, halved
• 1/2 red capsicum, chopped
• 1 brown onion, diced
• 500 g veal mince (you could use lamb or beef too)
• 1 handful of fresh flat leaf parsley, chopped
• 2 cloves garlic, crushed
• 1 cup plain tomato/pasta sauce/crushed tomatoes/passata
• 2 pinches of cinnamon
• 1 pinch paprika
• 1 pinch dried oregano
• 1/4 cup uncooked couscous
• 1/2 cup cubed feta
• 1/2 cup mozzarella or tasty cheese

The Method:

Pre-heat oven to 180 and line a baking tray or dish and bake the halved eggplants for 10-15 minutes. Take your cooked eggplants out and then scoop out their insides. Don't turn off the oven.

Chop up the scooped eggplant filling, put a frying pan on the heat, add a touch of oil and brown all the meat and vegies in a pan. Remove the pan from the heat and empty the contents in a bowl.

In the same bowl add your tomato sauce or passata, raw couscous, feta, herbs and spices and mix together well. Spoon the mixture into your eggplant shells and return to the oven and bake for a further 15-20 minutes. Take out of the oven again, add mozzarella or tasty cheese and return to the oven and bake until all melty and brown - about 10 minutes.


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