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Stuffed Baby Eggplant Recipe

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Stuffed Baby Eggplant and A Farmer’s Market Trip

I love to go to farmers market.  In a recent trip to my favorite local farmers market, I found the most adorable baby eggplants. Out of all the vegetables, I knew I had to get some of these adorable orbs and make some Stuffed Baby Eggplant.  You can stuff them with just about anything , but I had friends coming over who are allergic to gluten so I decided to stuff my baby eggplants with quinoa.  This beautiful little ancient grain, when cooked, resemble little flying saucers in your bowl.  It’s a fantastic addition to any meal whether you use it as filling in a stuffed dish or just as a side dish. I seasoned my quinoa with caramelized celery, garlic, onions, and the interior portion of the eggplant that I had pulled out to make a cavity.  I completed the dish after it was baked with a sauce made with caramelized mushrooms and a sauce of thickened white wine.

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Fresh Ingredients for Amazing Stuffed Baby Eggplant

When making Stuffed Baby Eggplant,  fresher is better when it comes to the ingredients.  If you’re lucky enough to have a local farmers market, try looking for the baby eggplants there although I have found them at the grocery store as well.  I use a baby bella mushroom sliced thin for the sauce because I love their hearty flavor   The quinoa can be found typically in the grain section of your grocery store or with things like rice.  If there are other vegetables that you like, add them in for a wonderful flavor to the Stuffed Baby Eggplant.

 

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Stuffed Baby Eggplant Recipe

Ingredients

  • ½ C quinoa
  • 1 C water
  • 3 ribs celery, cleaned and diced
  • 1 onion, diced
  • 2 cloves garlic, minced
  • 1 T olive oil
  • 4 baby eggplant
  • 1 8 oz pkg baby bella mushrooms, cleaned and thinly sliced
  • 1 T butter
  • 1 ½ C white wine
  • 1 T flour or tapioca starch

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 375 degrees F.
  2. Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan. Add the quinoa, cover and reduce to a simmer. Simmer 15 minutes. Remove from heat and set aside.
  3. Heat a saute pan over medium heat. add the olive oil, celery, onion, and garlic. Saute until caramelized and a golden brown color.
  4. Add the caramelized vegetables to the cooked quinoa and stir. Set aside.
  5. Slice the bottoms off the eggplant, just enough so that it stands on its own.
  6. Slice the tops off the baby eggplant to expose the seedy centers. Using a spoon, remove the seeds. Set upright in a baking dish.
  7. Fill the eggplant with the quinoa mixture, filling over the top slightly.
  8. Cover the baking dish and bake in heated oven for 35 minutes, until the eggplant is tender.
  9. While the eggplant is baking, place the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.
  10. Add the mushrooms and saute until deeply caramelized and brown.
  11. Add the wine and simmer 1 minute.
  12. Add the flour, stirring constantly. Allow to simmer until sauce thickens, adding more wine if needed.
  13. When the eggplant is tender, place on a plate or in a small bowl. Spoon mushrooms and sauce over the top.
  14. Serve hot.
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You Want Stuffed Baby Eggplant but Can’t Find the Eggplants

If you looked all over and you still can’t find the baby eggplants have no fear you can still make Stuffed Baby Eggplant.  Just use a regular eggplant or maybe you can find a Chinese or Thai varieties of eggplant.  They will work as well. For the regular eggplants, cut off to the bottom so they sit straight in the pan.  Scoop out the inside, leaving at least ¼ inch wall.  If you have a long skinny eggplant simply cut lengthwise, scoop out the middle and bake it lying down.  You’ll get the wonderful flavor of Stuffed Baby Eggplant, just in a slightly different form.

 

½ C quinoa

1 C water

3 ribs celery, cleaned and diced

1 onion, diced

2 cloves garlic, minced

1 T olive oil

4 baby eggplant

1 8 oz pkg baby bella mushrooms, cleaned and thinly sliced

1 T butter

1 ½ C white wine

1 T flour or tapioca starch

 

Heat oven to 375 degrees F.

Bring the water to a boil in a small saucepan.  Add the quinoa, cover and reduce to a simmer.  Simmer 15 minutes.  Remove from heat and set aside.

Heat a saute pan over medium heat.  add the olive oil, celery, onion, and garlic.  Saute until caramelized and a golden brown color.

Add the caramelized vegetables to the cooked quinoa and stir.  Set aside.

Slice the bottoms off the eggplant, just enough so that it stands on its own.

Slice the tops off the baby eggplant to expose the seedy centers.  Using a spoon, remove the seeds.  Set upright in a baking dish.

Fill the eggplant with the quinoa mixture, filling over the top slightly.

Cover the baking dish and bake in heated oven for 35 minutes, until the eggplant is tender.

While the eggplant is baking, place the butter in a saute pan over medium heat.

Add the mushrooms and saute until deeply caramelized and brown.

Add the wine and simmer 1 minute.

Add the flour, stirring constantly.  Allow to simmer until sauce thickens, adding more wine if needed.

When the eggplant is tender, place on a plate or in a small bowl.  Spoon mushrooms and sauce over the top.

Serve hot.

 

Surprise your family or guests with adorable Stuffed Baby Eggplant!

 

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Stuffed Peppers Recipe

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Stuffed Peppers: Check the Clearance Rack!

While shopping the produce department of my favorite grocery store, I happened upon some “clearance” peppers.  They had started to wrinkle just a little bit, but they were still perfectly fine.  I picked up a bag of 5 red peppers for $1.92 and a bag of 5 green peppers for $1.84.  I couldn’t believe my luck!  They were beautiful, and you could even still put them on a salad, but my mind instantly went to when I was a kid and my mom would make a huge batch of Stuffed Peppers, freezing half of them for when peppers weren’t quite so inexpensive.  With peppers in my cart, I set out to make some Stuffed Peppers for my family.

What’s the Stuffing in a Stuffed Peppers?

I love to mix and match when it comes to stuffed peppers, depending on my mood and what’s easily available at the time.  The color of the pepper only matters if you want sweet or bold, as the bright colored peppers are wonderfully sweet, while the green peppers are bold.  Ground chuck is always the base I use in my Stuffed Peppers.  Sometimes I add things like ground Italian sausage, or bacon.  Even the binder changes.  Sometimes bread crumbs, sometimes cooked rice, and sometimes even quinoa, a wonderful grain.  One of the great things about Stuffed Peppers is the versatility you have in making them your own.

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Summery Stuffed Peppers Recipe ~ For Now and Later!

Ingredients

  • 4 peppers, any color
  • 1 lb ground beef
  • 4 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled
  • 1/2 C quinoa
  • 1/2 C hot water
  • salt
  • pepper
  • 1 15 oz can tomato sauce

Instructions

  1. Heat oven to 400 degrees F.
  2. Cut the top of the peppers off, just under the stem. Clean out the interior of seeds and remove the stem from the top. Set them aside.
  3. In a medium bowl, place the quinoa and hot water. Let sit until the water is absorbed.
  4. Add the beef and bacon. Mix well. Season with the salt and pepper.
  5. Fill the pepper cavities with the meat mixture and place in a baking dish.
  6. Cover with the tomato sauce and top with the pepper tops.
  7. Cover loosely with foil. Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, until meat is cooked through.
  8. Serve hot.
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Freezing Stuffed Peppers for Later

If you’d like to take advantage of sale peppers and freeze some Stuffed Peppers for later, it’s really quite simple.  Make up the peppers as usual.  Line a baking tray with parchment or wax paper.  Place the peppers on the baking tray and freeze until solid, about an hour or two.  Place in a freezer weight plastic zippy bag and store in the freezer.  Add about 15 minutes to the bake time and enjoy Stuffed Peppers any time of the year.

 

4 peppers, any color

1 lb ground beef

4 slices bacon, cooked crisp and crumbled

1/2 C quinoa

1/2 C hot water

salt

pepper

1 15 oz can tomato sauce

 

Heat oven to 400 degrees F.

Cut the top of the peppers off, just under the stem.  Clean out the interior of seeds and remove the stem from the top.  Set them aside.

In a medium bowl, place the quinoa and hot water.  Let sit until the water is absorbed.

Add the beef and bacon.  Mix well.  Season with the salt and pepper.

Fill the pepper cavities with the meat mixture and place in a baking dish.

Cover with the tomato sauce and top with the pepper tops.

Cover loosely with foil.  Bake for 1 hour 15 minutes, until meat is cooked through.

Serve hot.

 

Take advantage of beautiful peppers on sale, or peppers from a farmer’s market.  Make up some Stuffed Peppers and enjoy!

 

 

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