Description
Baked eggplants with tomatoes, onions and garlic
Ingredients
- 4 slim, elongated eggplants, about 700 g
- 150 ml olive oil
- salt and pepper
- 450 g onions, thinly sliced
- 3 – 4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced
- 450 g tomatoes, peeled and sliced
- 1 teaspoon oregano
- 1 teaspoon sugar
Directions
- Cut the stalks off the eggplants and rinse them.
- Using a sharp knife, slit them lengthwise on one side only, making sure you do not slit all the way through.
- They should open like a wallet, so you can put the stuffing in the opening.
- Shallow-fry them gently all around in 4 tablespoons olive oil.
- If not enough you can add some more oil in the frying pan.
- Take out and arrange side by side in a small oven dish and season them.
- Put the rest of the olive oil in a saucepan and sauté the onions and garlic in it until they are slightly golden.
- Add fresh tomatoes and half a cupful of water.
- Season.
- Add the oregano and sugar and cook gently, covered, for 15 minutes.
- With a spoon, fill the eggplants with this stuffing, opening them slightly.
- They should be quite soft by now.
- Virtually pile the stuffing in them, filling them generously.
- Normally they generate enough juices on their own so no addition of liquid is necessary in the oven dish.
- Cook in a pre-heated oven, gas mark 4 (350°F / 180°C), for 4o minutes; baste them once during cooking.