Eggplant boats with minced meat and cheese in the oven - 5 step-by-step recipes

Many housewives are well aware of the variety of eggplant dishes. It can be a vegetable or meat stew, casserole or "boats" with a filling. Believe me, such a dish looks unusual on a festive table and surprises with its excellent taste.

Juicy eggplant boats with minced meat and cheese in the oven

To prepare a delicious and satisfying eggplant side dish, you only need a small selection of products. It is better to choose eggplants of a not very large size, so that the boats will bake faster.

Cooking time - 1 hour 40 minutes.

Cooking time - 50 min.

Servings Per Container - 4.

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  We prepare all the ingredients and proceed to the preparation of the eggplant. Cut both fruits into two halves. Now you need to cut out the pulp. In no case do we throw it away, as we will add it to the dish. We add some salt to the "boats" inside and leave for 10 minutes to leave the bitterness.
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  After 10 minutes, wash and dry the eggplants. We put them on a baking sheet. Chop the onion and garlic after removing the husk. Fry both ingredients until transparent.
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  Before chopping the tomato pulp, you should first remove the skin from the tomatoes. Fill the tomatoes with boiling water, after cutting the tops (the cut should be in the shape of a cross). After 1-2 minutes, the water should be poured out and replaced with cold water.
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  Put minced meat in a pan with onions and garlic. Fry it until white and then add the diced tomato and eggplant pulp. When the liquid has completely evaporated, pour the dill, previously washed and chopped, into the mass. Salt and pepper.
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  After mixing the filling, fill the "boats" with it. We bake the dish in a preheated oven for 50 minutes. The temperature should be 180 degrees. 10 minutes before the eggplants are fully cooked, rub the cheese and sprinkle them on the boats. We check the readiness of the side dish with a fork, with which we pierce the eggplants: they should become soft.

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How to bake eggplant boats with minced meat, cheese and mushrooms?

We offer to prepare a very tasty and juicy dish with eggplant and mushrooms. The hardest job is shaping the eggplant boats and making the filling. If you cook a treat often, the cooking process will really speed up.

Cooking time - 1 hour 25 minutes.

Cooking time - 55 min.

Servings Per Container - 4.

Ingredients:

• Eggplant - 2 pcs.
• Minced pork - 200 gr.
• Onions - 2-3 pcs.
• Mushrooms - 200 gr.
• Salt to taste.
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Cheese - 100 gr.

Cooking process:

1. Let's start forming the eggplant “boats”. We wash both fruits and cut them into halves. Now we get rid of the pulp. The result is quite a boat-like blank. Rub in the salt inside the eggplants and leave for 15 minutes.
2. Let's start processing mushrooms. First, they must be sorted out and then rinsed. Finely chop the onion peeled from the husk, do the same with the eggplant pulp.
3. Fry the onions in a pan. When it softens, spread the eggplant pulp and mushrooms. After a few minutes, pour the minced meat. Salt and pepper the filling to your liking.
4. We wash the eggplants. When they dry, lay out the filling.Then we move them to a baking sheet. When the oven heats up at a temperature of 220 degrees, put a baking sheet with eggplants inside and bake for half an hour.
5. Now you should grate a piece of cheese and sprinkle it on the dish 10 minutes before it is fully cooked.

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Eggplant boats with minced meat, cheese and tomatoes in the oven

The amount of ingredients can be adjusted according to taste preferences. If desired, the amount of vegetables can be increased, and the portion of meat can be reduced. In any case, the dish will turn out to be very tasty and juicy.

Cooking time - 1 hour 10 minutes.

Cooking time - 40 minutes.

Servings Per Container - 6.

Ingredients:

• Eggplant - 3 pcs.
• Sweet Bulgarian pepper - 1 pc.
• Cheese - 100 gr.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Salt - ½ tsp
• Sour cream to taste.
• Greens to taste.
• Minced pork - 300 gr.
• Tomato - 1-2 pcs.
• Garlic - 1 tooth
• Vegetable oil - 1 tablespoon
• A mixture of ground peppers - 2 pinches.

Cooking process:

1. All eggplants must first be thoroughly rinsed and then cut into halves. Now you need to make the eggplants look like boats. Helping ourselves with a knife or spoon, remove the pulp from the halves. Eggplant contains bitterness that must be removed. The salt with which we cover the inside of the "boats" will cope well with this. We leave the blanks for 10 minutes.
2. Cut the eggplant pulp. Remove the husk from one onion and a clove of garlic. They need to be very finely chopped and fried until soft.
3. When the onion and garlic are ready, you can safely add the minced meat. After 4-5 minutes, it will be in a semi-ready state. At this point, you can add the eggplant pulp. We continue to fry the mass for another 5 minutes.
4. In the process of frying, wash the eggplants. We leave for a while so that they dry. We wash out the rest of the vegetables - tomatoes and peppers. We get rid of the peppers from the stem and core. Cut vegetables into small cubes. Pour them into the rest of the filling ingredients. Season the mass with salt and pepper. We mix.
5. After 3 minutes, when the filling is completely ready, put it in the "boats". We transfer the blanks to a baking sheet. We grate cheese. Sprinkle them with eggplants. When the oven warms up at 180 degrees, put the baking sheet inside for 30 minutes.

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Delicious and juicy eggplant boats with minced meat, cheese and garlic

We invite you to enjoy a fragrant dish with minced chicken, seasoned with finely chopped garlic, which will add a little spicy piquancy to the boats, and a golden cheese crust.

Cooking time - 1 hour 25 minutes.

Cooking time - 55 min.

Servings Per Container - 4.

Ingredients:

• Eggplant - 2 pcs.
• Minced chicken - 400 gr.
• Tomato - 1-2 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Garlic - 3 teeth.
• Parsley - 3 branches.
• Georgian adjika - ½ tsp
• Italian herbs - optional.
• Ground pepper - to taste.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - 4 tablespoons
• Butter - 7 gr.
• Cheese - 150 gr.
• Sour cream - 200 gr.
• Dill - 1-2 branches.

Cooking process:

1. The eggplants should be large enough. We cut them into two parts, after washing with water. Remove the pulp with a regular spoon and sprinkle the eggplant with salt on the inside. After 20 minutes, the bitterness will leave the fruit.
2. We do not discard the pulp extracted from the eggplant, but cut it into cubes. We will fry it with onions, which we first peel and then finely chop. The process will take no more than 10 minutes.
3. Now we spread the minced meat to the pulp and onion. Fry the workpiece for about seven minutes. Cut the washed tomato into cubes and add to the pan. Mix the ingredients and fry for 2 minutes.
4. For the filling, we need a couple of garlic cloves. We clean them, grind and add to the filling. Wash and chop the washed greens. Pour it into the filling along with adjika, Italian herbs, salt and pepper. Mix the ingredients. The filling is ready.
5. We wash the eggplants in cool water and wait until they dry. We spread the "boats" on a baking sheet and add the filling to them. We put the dish inside and bake at 220 degrees for 40 minutes.We grate the cheese and sprinkle it on the eggplants half an hour after placing the baking sheet in the oven.
6. We will serve eggplants on the table with sauce. While the eggplant is baking, it's time to cook it. Put the sour cream in a deep plate or bowl. Then we send herbs and garlic. Add salt and pepper. Stir the sauce.

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How to cook eggplant boats with chicken and cheese?

Eggplant is considered a seasonal dish, recipes for which will be typed on a very large cookbook. We suggest you cook eggplants according to one of these recipes - with chicken fillet, vegetables and cheese. Fillets for the filling must first be chopped and then fried with onions.

Cooking time - 2 hours 10 minutes.

Cooking time - 1 hour 30 minutes.

Servings Per Container - 16.

Ingredients:

• Chicken fillet - 400 gr.
• Eggplant - 8 pcs.
• Tomato - 2 pcs.
• Onions - 1 pc.
• Cheese - 100 gr.
• Garlic - 2 teeth
• Sour cream - 4 tablespoons
• Ground black pepper - to taste.
• Salt to taste.
• Vegetable oil - 2 tablespoons

Cooking process:

1. Let's form "boats" from eggplants. To do this, you must first rinse all the fruits. Then, after wiping, we cut the eggplants into two parts. Now you need to remove the pulp from each part to make the boats. The stalk can be removed or left. Cut out the pulp with a knife or scrape it out with a spoon. Sprinkle the "boats" with salt and leave for half an hour.
2. Let's take care of the eggplant filling. We wash the chicken fillet. After the chicken is dry, cut the fillets into cubes. Remove the husk from the onion and cut into small pieces.
3. We wash the tomatoes. We cut out only the stalk. We leave the skin. Cut the tomatoes into small cubes.
4. We remove the peel from the garlic and squeeze out a couple of cloves with the help of a garlic. Put sour cream in a separate container and add garlic to it.
5. Now you need to fry the onions and chicken fillets in a pan. To do this, first heat up the oil, and then pour the onions into it. When it softens, lay out the chicken fillet. Fry until tender for 15 minutes. Season with salt and pepper. After mixing the mass, add the chopped tomatoes to it. Stir constantly, simmer the filling for about 15 minutes.
6. The bitterness came out of the eggplant. Drain the juice into the sink and wash the eggplants. When they are dry, put the filling in the "boats" and immediately transfer to a baking sheet. Pour the filling with sour cream and garlic sauce.
7. Grind the cheese coarsely on a grater and sprinkle the filling on it. Let's wait until the oven warms up (set the temperature to 180 degrees). Then we put the baking sheet in the oven and bake the eggplants for 40 minutes.

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