Favorite Eggplant Recipes?

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Favorite Eggplant Recipes?
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Sun, 05-15-2005 - 4:29pm

Hi all. Can you wonderful beachers share your fav eggplant recipes? I love good old fashioned eggplant parm, but I'm thinking I could try something a little more SBD friendly. It's on sale here, so share away please!

Thanks! Norma :O)

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Sun, 05-15-2005 - 5:47pm

Norma,


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Sun, 05-15-2005 - 6:21pm

My very favorite dish is eggplant casserole, a dish my DH makes. It's usually served over rice, but I'm just skipping the rice now. If you really want the rice, you could serve it over brown rice. I've never made it, but it's simple, and I've watched him enough times I think I can give you a recipe.

1 eggplant, cubed
olive or canola oil
1 lb. ground sirloin
2 small cans tomato sauce
garlic
salt
pepper
2 tbsp. pine nuts, roasted

Pan fry the cubed eggplant in 2 tbsp olive or canola oil. You want it pretty soft. Remove the eggplant, drain and set aside. Brown the ground sirloin in the same pan, drain, and add tomato sauce and spices. Simmer ~10 minutes. Add the eggplant back to the pan and simmer another 20 minutes or so. Pour the whole thing into a casserole dish, top with pine nuts, and bake at 350 for 30 minutes. Serve over rice.

I find it tastes better as leftovers. The eggplant softens up, and any bitter taste there might have been in the eggplant skin will be gone.

Lora

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