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EGGPLANTS "PAPOUTSAKIA"
it is a traditional greek recipe. In Greek "Papoutsakia" means small shoes and you'll find out why by reading the recipe. Ingredients
- For the eggplants
- • 10 eggplants
- • 1/2 Kg minced meat from beef
- • 1 onion
- • 1 garlic clove
- • Salt / pepper
- • 4 tomatos chopped
- • Olive oil
- For the bechamel sauce
- 6 table spoons butter
- 7-8 table spoons flour
- 1 liter milk
- 3 table spoons grated cheese
- 1-2 egg yolks
- Salt / white pepper
Directions
- We saute the onion in olive oil.
- When it becomes soft we add the minced meat, tomatos and a cup of water. We cook till all water is absorbed.
- We wash the eggplants and we cut them in halves.
- We remove their flesh leaving around 1cm of the external cover. We put them in a pan with olive oil and we saute them lightly.
- We fill the eggplants with the minced meat mixture.
- We prepare a bechamel sauce and we put it on top of the eggplants.
- We put them in a pan and bake them in medium oven for 1 hour.
- Bechamel sauce
- In a pan we heat the milk. Attention: we do not want it boiled.
- In a bigger pan we heat the butter to melt. Then we add the flour slowly stirring with a wooden spoon till it is well dissolved.
- We remove the pan from the heat and we add the milk slowly stirring continuously.
- We put again the pan on the cooker hob and we stir till the sauce is thick and smooth as cream.
- We add the cheese.
- We remove from the heat and we add salt, pepper and when the sauce is cooler we add the egg yolks well stirred.
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