Eggplant casserole with minced meat is a versatile, hearty dish that will help you feed your entire family without too much effort. There are several options for cooking this dish. Stuffing can be taken from different types of meat or even from offal. Pay attention to the pretreatment of these vegetables.
Eggplant casserole with minced liver
This is a very tasty and diet dish. To cook minced liver, you can skip the liver through a meat grinder in raw form. But that will make her a little dry. It is better to pre-fry large pieces of liver in butter with onions. To speed up the cooking process and make the dish more dietetic, bake the liver in the oven (along with vegetables) and then twist it, giving the mass homogeneity. You will need a meat grinder or a blender.
You need to take a couple of eggplant (about four hundred grams), 700 grams of pork, beef or chicken liver, 2 onions, a spoonful of vegetable and 100 grams of butter. Freshly ground white pepper goes well with this dish.
A young housewife may ask: "How to cook eggplant casserole with liver so that the vegetables are not bitter?" First you need to peel and chop them, and then leave for twenty minutes. This will help eliminate bitterness. This should be done only if the vegetables were grown on the ground. Greenhouse eggplants do not contain bitterness.
You should also peel garlic, onions, bell pepper (the ratio in which these vegetables should be taken does not matter much - focus on your taste). Cut (except garlic) into large pieces. Put chopped liver and vegetables in a baking sheet, put in the oven, heated to 230 ° C. Sprinkle with vegetable oil from above.
The dish should be in the oven for about 25 minutes. Somewhere in the middle of cooking, the pan must be removed from the oven and mix the liver with vegetables well. After the time has passed, take out the dish, cool, and then pass through the meat grinder, adding 100 grams of cold butter, cut into pieces. It will turn out to be a viscous mass, it needs to be transferred to a container, kneading well with a fork, rammed and set in the cold for several hours. The dish is ready.
Eggplant casserole with minced beef
This dish can serve as a great dinner for the whole family, its huge plus is that you can experiment by adding various vegetables. Minced meat is better to take beef or mixed. You can also use grilled chicken meat (not just one breast, but the whole chicken meat). In addition, it perfectly cheers up - the cooked eggplant casserole (with the photo we can make sure that the dish looks very aesthetically pleasing) pleases the eye and arouses appetite. A simple boiled pasta or a salad of fresh vegetables is very suitable for this dish. To give an original note, take the cheese of sharp varieties. For example, cheddar. A pronounced pungent taste will be very appropriate. Eggplant casserole with minced meat goes well with a lot of spices. For example, with ground pepper. We start cooking.
Fry the onion and garlic, mix with raw minced meat (800 grams). Then sprinkle with pepper and oregano. Fry a little. Eggplant, sliced in circles, brown in a pan. We lay out the vegetables and minced meat in layers in a baking dish, sprinkle with cheese. Bake for twenty five minutes.