Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken is an example of how from the most affordable products, in a short time, even an inexperienced cook can prepare a tasty, healthy and inexpensive dish for dinner.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Boil round rice in advance and turn on the heated oven (170-180 degrees), and prepare a small piece of foil or parchment so that the dish will cook quickly.

  • Cooking time: 45 minutes
  • Servings: 2

Ingredients for cooking eggplants stuffed with rice and chicken:

  • medium eggplant;
  • 100 grams of boiled rice;
  • 250 g minced chicken;
  • onion head;
  • bunch of cilantro;
  • pods of red chili;
  • 20 ml of olive oil;
  • salt, spices to taste.

A way of cooking eggplants stuffed with rice and chicken.

Choosing an eggplant - for a portion, enough for an adult lunch, you need a medium-sized vegetable, half of which will hold a lot of stuffing. Cooking on the principle - half an eggplant per serving.

So, ripe eggplant with my elastic skin, cut off the stem, cut exactly in half.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

We take an ordinary teaspoon and scrape the middle, leaving a side about a centimeter thick.

Pulp is not thrown away, it is useful for the filling.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

We make mince for eggplant filling

First, fry in olive oil finely chopped onions to a transparent state.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Add minced chicken to onions. In my recipe, homemade minced chicken breast fillet, but you can cook with any meat (pork, beef, veal).

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Chop a bunch of cilantro finely. If you do not like this greenery, then season the stuffing with celery, parsley or dill, in a word, with any greenery that is at hand.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

We remove a small pod of red chili peppers from seeds and membranes. Cut finely, add to bowl. Try the pepper to the taste, it is enough to cut off a half from a sharp pod.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Add boiled rice. I advise you to use sticky rice varieties, for example, arborio or Krasnodar round. This is necessary so that the filling does not turn out crumbly.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Heat a tablespoon of olive oil in a thick bottom pan. Pulp extracted from eggplant, cut into small cubes, throw in the heated oil. Fry for 5 minutes. Add eggplants to the rest of the ingredients, salt. This amount of minced meat will require 3-4 g of fine salt, but this is individual.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Stir minced meat thoroughly.

Fill the eggplant halves with the filling. If it turned out a lot, then boldly make a high mound of rice with chicken - it will not fall apart, as the products stuck together.

Grease the baking dish with oil, put the stuffed vegetables.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

We put the form on the middle shelf of the oven heated to 180 degrees Celsius. We bake about 18-20 minutes. You can cover the form folded in several layers of parchment for baking or foil, this will speed up the process. And in order to get a ruddy crust on top, 5 minutes before readiness we turn on the grill.

Sprinkle the eggplants stuffed with rice and chicken and chopped cilantro.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

To the table, eggplants stuffed with rice and chicken, served with sour cream and greens sauce or homemade ketchup, here, as they say, the taste and color.

Eggplant stuffed with rice and chicken

Eggplants stuffed with rice and chicken are ready. Enjoy your meal!

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