recipes:aubergine with tomato (vegetarian & non vegetarian)

You can use courgette or sweet pepper instead of aubergine.

ingredients: Soy meat 75 gr, tomato 4 big ones, 2 small onions, olive oil, pepper, salt, 2 aubergines, 2 red chili peppers, parsley, stock, 1 cup of water, paprika powder, parsley

Boil the soy meat in some stock until soft (5 min.) and drain. Meanwhile fry the chopped chili peppers and onion until soft (in olive oil). Add the drained soy meat, a bit of pepper, salt and paprika powder fry for another 10 minutes. Now put in the peeled and diced tomato, a cup of water pepper and salt and let it simmer until the juice has evaporated. Take from the fire and add shopped parsley.

While frying, put the aubergines in the oven at 180°c until soft, drizzle with olive oil. Take a tajine and wipe it with some oil, put in the aubergines and slice then lengthwise. Fill the aubergine with the tomato sauce and poor the rest of the sauce around it. Close the tajine and let it simmer very slowly for another 30 minutes. Serve with bread or rice. Or as we do with Greek pasta.

Substitute the soy meat with minced beef or lamb if you like your meat. Or with beef sliced into small strips, if you try this, first fry the beef in hot butter for one minute on each side, take it out of the frying pan and let it rest until the tomato sauce is finished and everything goes into the tajine.

Cut the aubergines in four parts before putting them in the oven, if you want it to look like the picture.

You don't need a tajine, but you need to simmer it slowly in a closed pot or cooking pan.