You could really fill these eggplant roses with any number of fillings — creamy ricotta whipped with an egg, cheddar cheese and smoked paprika,
even cooked ground beef, but Parmesan and herbs hold these eggplant spirals together beautifully and still let the taste and texture of the eggplant shine through.
Not exact matches
It easy to prep the night before (or
even in the morning as your coffee brews) because you just have to brown up a little
ground beef and onion and toss it into the slow
cooker with a diced pepper, a can of tomato sauce and three spices (how's that for keeping things simple?
Add the
ground beef in an
even layer and
cook until deeply browned, about 8 minutes.
I used brown lentils in this, but I think next time I might try it with the black lentils which I think are
even more like
ground beef in texture and shape when they
cook.
The authentic Bolognese sauce, which is so delicious, usually asks for a sauté of
ground porc (and maybe
beef), onions, spices and tomatoes, BUT then this sauce is
cooked even longer with either cream or full fat milk.
chicken which
even when
cooked is often still bloody on the bone, and
ground beef which sometimes has chunks of unidentifiable stuff in it.»