Eggplant with ground beef and tomatoes

Ingredients

- 1/2 kg ground beef
- 1/2 onion
- 3 eggplants
- salt
- pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- 3 big tomatoes
- 3 Tbs of tomato paste
- 3/4 cup of water
- oil

Heat the oil and fry the chopped onion until gold in color. Add the meat, salt, pepper and cumin. Mix well. Fry until the meat is done.

Wash the eggplants and cut them into 1 cm slices, add some salt and soak in the water for 20 min. Dry the eggplants with paper tissues and fry until gold in color.

Put the tomatoes in a pot and cover with boiled water. Leave the tomatoes in the water until you see the skin crack. Then remove the skin and cut into slices.

Put the fried eggplants inside the baking dish, on the eggplants put meat and then tomatoes. Add 3/4 cup of water mixed with 3 Tbs of tomato paste.

Bake for 40 min at 220 °C until the top changed color. Decorate the dish with fried pine nuts.
Serve with rice, couscous or with rice puff pastry balls (my next recipe).