When i was in the supermarket, had the impulse that i’d like to cook something with aubergines. My mom makes a killer stuffed aubergines with minced meat, so i thought i’d give it a go. So i bought 2 aubergines and a pack of beef and pork minced meat.
When i came home, i had a pan in which i fried some meat the other day, so i obviously reused that to flavor the minced meat even more, which after it was done, i took to the side.
i then chopped a couple of onions and a couple of cayenne peppers, left the seeds in there for heat, and some garlic and put it in the pan on medium heat, so they went frying slowly, while i started carving the insides of the aubergines and chopping them to add them to the fried onions and garlic. i added one big red pepper too, and then i realized that the whole thing was getting too big for the 2 aubergines, so i came up with another idea.
Whipped up my dutch oven, grabbed a zucchini and 4 carrots, chopped them round, and put them at the bottom. Then on top of them, i drizzled half the meat. Then i took the carved aubergines, and i sliced them sideways into pieces and made 2 black suns on top of the meat, and put whatever was left around them. Then dropped in the onion/garlic/peppers mixture on top of the rest of the meat.
Now, i needed some moisture inside the dutch oven but didn’t have any chicken or beef stock at home, so i just filled the frying pan with water, and let it boil a bit, deglazing everything from the bottom, and once it was close to boiling i threw that on top of the layers in the dutch oven, covered it up and put it in the oven at 180 degrees Celsius for 1 hour.
Once that was finished, i took a whole bunch of parsley and generously put it on top.
For lunch, i made a quick saffron risotto to go along with it. Came out fantastic.
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