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| Stuffed Baked Squash and Eggplant Recipe "Ablama" |
| Written by Dede Med |
Stuffed Baked Squash and Eggplant Recipe "Ablama"

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Yield: 4-6
Level: Medium
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 6-8 Mexican squash
- 4-6 small Italian eggplant
- 1 16oz can tomato sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2-3 tbs olive oil
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash eggplant and squash, cut off tips. With a corer, core out the squash. For the eggplant, peel off some of the skin alternating like a zebra. Spray egg plant and squash with olive oil spray or drizzle with olive oil and bake on a baking sheet for 15 minutes, turning over half way through cooking, set aside and let cool. In a hot saute pan on medium heat add olive oil and onions, cook onions for 4-5 minutes. Next, add ground beef, salt and black pepper and cook to brown meat, about 10 minutes After cooking, set aside and let cool. Cut a slit in the eggplant and stuff with browned meat, next stuff squash, place them in a deep baking dish, cover with tomato sauce and sprinkle with some salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic powder and cook in 450 degree oven for 20 minutes. Serve with rice.Stuffed Baked Squash and Eggplant Recipe "Ablama"
Ingredients
- 1 lb ground beef
- 1 cup chopped onion
- 6-8 Mexican squash
- 4-6 small Italian eggplant
- 1 16oz can tomato sauce
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/2 tsp black pepper
- 2-3 tbs olive oil
- 1/4 tsp garlic powder
- 1/4 tsp cayenne pepper
Directions
Preheat oven to 450 degrees. Wash eggplant and squash, cut off tips. With a corer, core out the squash. For the eggplant, peel off some of the skin alternating like a zebra. Spray egg plant and squash with olive oil spray or drizzle with olive oil and bake on a baking sheet for 15 minutes, turning over half way through cooking, set aside and let cool. In a hot saute pan on medium heat add olive oil and onions, cook onions for 4-5 minutes. Next, add ground beef, salt and black pepper and cook to brown meat, about 10 minutes After cooking, set aside and let cool. Cut a slit in the eggplant and stuff with browned meat, next stuff squash, place them in a deep baking dish, cover with tomato sauce and sprinkle with some salt, black pepper, cayenne pepper and garlic powder and cook in 450 degree oven for 20 minutes. Serve with rice.Stuffed squash and eggplant and then baked in a tomato sauce. This dish is served warm and as a main dish. It can be served with rice as well and pita bread.
i did it tonight with steak was pretty good i'm glad you took my joke well and didn't think i was trolling :0)
By: OfficialMiguelNQnA
By: OfficialMiguelNQnA
the don't have a nationality silly, but it is the region in which they originate from
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
i didn't know egg plant had a nationality or squash
By: OfficialMiguelNQnA
By: OfficialMiguelNQnA
thats a kurdish recipe i can get u the recipe if u want i am kurdish ..its really good
By: esmail09
By: esmail09
well the recipes are strictly from countries that boarder the Mediterranean sea, Greece, Turkey, Lebanon etc. I'm not to familiar with Iraqi recipes but I will look into it for you :)
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
Hey
I just have a few questions
I just wanted to know whether your recipes are from a certain country or whether you get them from different places in the middle east
Because i have tried so many aubergine dishes and they all taste so different from eachother
I tried one dish which was from iraq, i think baghdad and also from northern iraq
Called 'tepsi' or 'tapsi'
Could you please do a video on this if posible
I really love that dish but i can never get it right
No matter how many times i
By: SoSoniLove
By: SoSoniLove
yes you can do any vegetable, peppers, tomatoes, potatoes etc.
I guess you can use the big eggplant but be sure that it cooks all the way through :)
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
could u use the big type of eggplant as well? also, asie from peppers, eggplant and squash, what are some other vegges that you could do this with? tomato, maybe?
By: MsKaylachristine
By: MsKaylachristine
ur gorgeous
By: otiswldman
By: otiswldman
Congratulations on the book!
By: Fidasaind
By: Fidasaind
That's funny my arab friend gave me that core. I thought you can core any fruit or vegetable. I tried to use it for apples, but you can imagine it didn't work and since ever I never used it. Now I know what to use it for and how to use it. I want to try this food. It looks so easy and so delish. I like the way you simplify the cooking. Thank you so much.
By: dilzuz
By: dilzuz
you're gonna have a cookbook! i can't wait!
By: MarhabaJamila
By: MarhabaJamila
wow, sounds amazing, maybe I'll try that next time :)
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
zucchinni
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
you are so welcome, happy cooking!
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
Yes, I actually have that recipe up as well, it's the stuffed squash recipe :)
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
definitely, you can stuff many different vegetables for this dish, my mom even does onions and potatoes :)
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
Definitely! you can use any vegetables you like.
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
I am always excited to cook :)
By: dedemed
By: dedemed
I made this with some farm raised venison instead of beef, and i put in a half a cup of shredded asiago and 3 cloves chopped garlic into the stuffing. It was pretty good.
By: SDonwerth
By: SDonwerth
do u know any other name for squash??
thanks
By: minokhan
By: minokhan
I love this dish, I just eat it for lunch yesterday
I didn't have zucchini at my home, but eggplant was delicious! ^^
thanks for this recipe ^_^
By: Nphilosophy
By: Nphilosophy
u can stuff it with rice mixed with tomato sauce and coriandre anf cilantro with some black pepper and salt some oil .. it callled mahshi in middle east or stuffed
By: scent007
By: scent007
looks good but if you add one or two small green pepper will give your dish a really nice flavor.thanks
By: Esunshine71
By: Esunshine71
thanks for this great recipe !
By: aYuMiNiO
By: aYuMiNiO
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