Eggplant Bake (Middle Eastern Style)

🧂 Ingredients

• 1 Eggplant

  large
• 1 tsp Salt
• Olive Oil
• 1 tbsp Ghee
• ½ tsp Black Pepper

  ground
• 1 Onion

  chopped
• 2 cloves Garlic

  chopped
• 1 lbs Lamb

  ground
• ½ tsp Cinnamon

  ground
• ¼ tsp Coriander

  ground
• ½ tsp Red Pepper Flakes
• ½ cup Tomatoes

  canned diced
• ¼ cup Pine Nuts

  roasted
• 4 Tomatoes

  sliced
• ½ tsp Garlic Powder

Instructions

• 1 Fry onions and garlic in the ghee over medium heat until soft.
• 2 Add lamb and mix with onions add salt.
• 3 Add cinnamon, pepper, red pepper flakes, coriander.
• 4 Cook until meat is brown.
• 5 Add canned tomatoes. 
• 6 Add pine nuts. Cook for five more minutes. Set aside.
• 7 Slice tomatoes. 
• 8 Place cooked eggplant in a casserole dish. Add meat mixture to cover eggplant.
  Cover meat mixture with sliced tomatoes.
• 9 Bake at 400°F (200°C) for 15 minutes, remove from the oven and pour some olive
  oil to moisten tomatoes. Bake another five minutes or until tomatoes are cooked.

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