Melitzanes Fournou

Description

Baked Eggplants. Try them with a cheese garnish!

• Serves 4

Melitzanes fournou

Ingredients

• ¼ kg chopped onions
• ½ kg fresh tomatoes
• 2 garlic cloves
• 1 kg round eggplants
• salt
• pepper
• olive oil

Directions

1. Sauté the onions in a frying pan.
2. Clean, chop and mash the fresh tomatoes (use 2 cans of preserved chopped tomatoes instead).
3. Mash the garlic cloves in a mortar.
4. Mix the tomato mash with the garlic.
5. Wash the eggplants.
6. Slice them horizontally in slices of 1½ cm width.
7. Butter a square pan and place the aubergine slices.
8. Boil the tomato mash with the onions for a while.
9. Then, pour the tomato mixture into the eggplant slices.
10. Preheat the oven in 200°C and bake for 45 minutes.