What: Pork-stuffed eggplants with radicchio
salad
From: latest issue of Mindfood magazine,
page 128
Ease factor: Pretty easy. One baking dish,
one bowl. I did also break out the stick blender to make breadcrumbs, but that
was 2 minutes, max. You have to bake the eggplants first, scoop out the flesh,
add it to the pork mix and re-fill the eggplants, then bake again.
Time: just under an hour. Not bad for a
Monday night.
Value: approx $14 for the ingredients for
two, with variations as below.
What I liked: a really tasty combo of
flavours - savoury pork mince, creamy eggplant flesh, parmesan, feta, herbs and
tomato sauce.
What I did differently: I used spray oil
instead of brushing / drizzling. There's no way you need 1/3 cup oil here. I
used a puréed can of tomatoes instead of passata (that's just what I had). I
used gluten-free whole grain bread for the crumbs instead of sourdough. I used
half haloumi and half feta (to use up a stray bit of haloumi in the fridge).
And I didn't make the salad - instead I did a salad of broccoli, rocket, mint,
lemon and balsamic glaze.
What I'll do next time: make a bit more
sauce. And try the radicchio salad.
Sandy's verdict: "Very tasty" was
the comment from SM. Yes, would eat this again.
Overall: Excellent - a lovely start to the
week, and the recipe works as it is written. Nice one, Mindfood!
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