The stuffed eggplants with meat are an excellent, easy, and tasty main dish that you can bake in the oven, cook in an air fryer, or microwave, and you can even prepare them with tomato sauce in a pan if you wish.
A versatile dish, stuffed eggplants can be enriched in many ways as your imagination suggests. I’m already thinking about how delicious they would become cooked in tomato sauce in a pan.
As we know, in summer, eggplants are abundant, and we don’t always have ideas to cook them in a tasty way, so I recommend you save the recipe and when you decide to make them, prepare more trays to keep in the freezer to bake them whenever you want and don’t have time.
Below, I leave you other ideas for stuffed eggplant rolls to try and save, and then let’s move right below the photo to discover how to prepare these Stuffed Eggplants with Meat!!
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Very economical
- Preparation time: 20 Minutes
- Portions: 4 People
- Cooking methods: Oven
- Cuisine: Italian
- Seasonality: Spring, Summer, and Fall
Ingredients for Stuffed Eggplants with Meat
- 2 black oval eggplants
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
- 2 pinches salt
- 2 tablespoons breadcrumbs
- 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese
- 12 oz ground beef
- 1 egg (small)
- 2 tablespoons grated Parmesan cheese (or Grana Padano)
- 1.4 oz provola cheese (or scamorza)
- as needed breadcrumbs (or the crumb of 1 roll)
- as needed chopped parsley
- 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil
Tools
- 1 Cast iron grill
- 1 Bowl
- 1 Baking dish for oven
Preparation of Stuffed Eggplants with Meat
First, remove the stalk and then slice the eggplants into thin slices.
Then grill them briefly on each side until they become just soft, salt at the end, and set aside.
In a bowl, mix the ground beef (you can use a mix of pork and beef if you prefer) with the egg.
Salt, add the Parmesan, breadcrumbs, and chopped parsley, and mix well to combine.
Place the grilled slices of eggplant on a cutting board, and with your hands, form oval-shaped patties, inserting some cubes of provola or scamorza inside.
Place the patty in the center of each eggplant slice, then add some more pieces of cheese and roll.
Secure them with a toothpick.
Preheat the oven to 180°C (356°F) in static mode, drizzle a baking dish with a little extra virgin olive oil, sprinkle with breadcrumbs, and place the eggplant rolls on top.
Sprinkle with more breadcrumbs, grated cheese, a generous drizzle of extra virgin olive oil, and bake in the center rack of the oven.
Cook the stuffed eggplant rolls with meat for 25-30 minutes and serve drizzling with the cooking juices that will have formed in the baking dish.
Variations and Tips
You can cook the eggplant rolls in the air fryer for 15-18 minutes at 170°C (338°F).
If you have a microwave, you can cook them at 900w in a ceramic or Pyrex glass dish for 12 minutes.
The stuffed eggplant rolls can be cooked in a pan with tomato sauce for 20 minutes with the lid on, over medium-low heat.
If you don’t like or don’t have provola or scamorza, you can use another stretched curd cheese.
You can also add 1 crumbled sausage to the ground beef, reducing the meat quantity to 250 grams (8.8 oz).
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