Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, eggplant meatballs with marinara. It is one of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Eggplant meatballs with marinara is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is appreciated by millions daily. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. They are fine and they look fantastic. Eggplant meatballs with marinara is something which I have loved my entire life.
Eggplant meatballs are wonderful and tasty ways to use an eggplant to make a unique vegetarian dish. Not the same as a meatball, but the eggplant has the 'meatiness' required to pull off being a good substitute. Using eggplant and binders like eggs, and bread crumbs with herbs and spices, the balls are shaped and baked.
To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can have eggplant meatballs with marinara using 11 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant meatballs with marinara:
- Get 1 small eggplant
- Get 1 large egg lightly beaten
- Take 1/2 cup cooked cannellini or navy beans (rinsed), smash with fork
- Prepare 1 large clove garlic finely chopped
- Prepare 1/4 cup finely chopped basil
- Get 1/4 cup finely chopped parsley
- Make ready 1/2 cup finely grated Parmesan
- Get Salt & pepper
- Prepare 1 cup panko breadcrumbs
- Prepare Olive oil
- Take 2 cups marinara (homemade or store bought
While the meatballs cook, warm the marinara sauce in a small saucepan. Remove the meatballs from the oven, sprinkle with a little extra parmesan and serve with the marinara sauce. Scrape the eggplant out of its skin, add to breadcrumb mixture, using a hand blender, combine until it resembles regular meatball mixture. If you know me, you know I love eggplant!
Steps to make Eggplant meatballs with marinara:
- Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F. Line a rimmed baking sheet with foil and place the eggplant on top. Use a fork to prick the eggplant 4 times, then place the eggplant in the oven and roast it until it has completely collapsed and a paring knife easily slips into the center, 40 to 50 minutes. Cool the eggplant 20 minutes. Leave the oven on.
- Slice the eggplant in half lengthwise and use a spoon to scoop out the flesh (discard the skin). Place the roasted eggplant in a medium bowl and stir in the egg and beans. Add the garlic, basil, parmesan, 3/4 teaspoon salt and 1/2 teaspoon pepper and stir to combine, then mix in the breadcrumbs.
- Again, line the rimmed baking sheet with a clean sheet of foil and lightly mist it with spray. Shape the eggplant mixture into balls about the size of a golf ball (2 tablespoons per ball; you should get about 16). Place them on the prepared baking sheet and lightly mist the top of the balls with spray. Bake the eggplant balls until they are golden brown and firm, about 20 minutes.
- While the meatballs cook, warm the marinara sauce in a small saucepan. Remove the meatballs from the oven, sprinkle with a little extra parmesan and serve with the marinara sauce. Serve over pasta or not :)
Hence, I decided to make two of my favorites together, and it is delicious. I used ground turkey and almond meal, but I am giving you alternative suggestions below. This is a great paleo recipe and very addictive. I don't like turkey meatballs but eggplant took the taste of a meatball to a new level. I didn't even need sauce with them.
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