Shayk Maghsie

Shayk Maghsie

Time: 55 mins

Ingredients

• 500 g minced meat (if you have your own kofta recipie wich you like you can use that one if not i will wright it down h)
• 1/3 cup parsley
• 1/3 cup coriander
• 5 garlic cloves, minced
• 1 onion
• 1 green chili pepper
• 1 tablespoon curry powder
• 1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 1 teaspoon black pepper
• 1 tablespoon salt (to taste)
• 2 tablespoons plain flour, to keep it firm

Directions

• 1 slice the eggplant in the lenght so that you have long slices
• 2 let them soak in some water and salt for a hour or 30 minute.
• 3 pat them dry and fry them in some oil till lightly brownt, or you can pop them on a baking sheet with some oil brusht on both sides and place under the grill.
• 4 it just needs to be soft and flexible so that you can roll them later on.
• 5 take the parsley, coriander, chilli pepper, garlic and onion and blend in a blender/food processer till almost smooth.
• 6 or chop it up by hand for a more rustic feeling to the kofta.
• 7 in a big bowl mix the minced meat ,spices,salt and the garlic, coriander, parsley ect mixture also put 2 tbs of plain flour so that the kofta sticks togheter.
• 8 mix it all with your hands.
• 9 now take the kofta and make finger long saugages of it.
• 10 place at one end of the eggplant and roll it up, place with the open sidedown, do this with all of them and place in a oven proof dish (i used a glass dish).
• 11 when all the rolls are made,pour the content of 1 can of chopped tomatos in top of the rolls, now make the sauce wich goes in top.
• 12 mix 500 ml of boiling water with 2 tbs of tomato puree and the spices add salt to taste aswell as spices (it is ok if the sauce taste a bit sour or not as nice as you like it, but when cookt with the eggplant and kofta it will take the taste of the kofta ect).
• 13 pour this sauce in top of the eggplant rolls.
• 14 place or a lid in top of the dish or put some silver paper in top.
• 15 now bake for 20/30 min in a pre heated oven (200 degrees celsius)
• 16 then take the lid of and let it cook for 15 min without lid on 240 degrees celsius.
• 17 this dish taste good with lebanees bread some home made chips and salad,.
• 18 i also made hummus with it, but that is tottally optinal
• 19 p.s if you put the onion garlic coriander parsley and green chillie in a food processer than add 3 tbs of plain flour -- to keep the meat firm.