Recipes / Main dishes / Aubergine and beef mince towers
Lunch
Dinner
One-dish meal
Baked
Aubergine and beef mince towers
Slices of roast aubergine stacked with beef, peppers and spices, baked in a tomato sauce under melted cheese.
- Cooking
- 45 min
- Prep
- 30 min
- Difficulty
- Medium
Per serving
610 kcal
Protein · 15 %
22 g
Fat · 73 %
48 g
Carbs · 12 %
18 g
Estimate per serving, worked out ingredient by ingredient. The percentage is the share of the calories.
Ingredients
For 4 servings
- Aubergines
- 2 large aubergines, cut into thick slices
- 50 ml vegetable oil
- salt, for soaking
- Meat filling
- 300 g beef mince
- 3–4 tbsp vegetable oil
- 1 onion, finely chopped
- 1 green pepper, chopped
- 1 red pepper (such as kapia), chopped
- 2 garlic cloves
- 1 tsp tomato purée
- 1 tsp red pepper paste
- 100 g grated tomato
- 1 handful of fresh parsley, chopped
- 1 tsp sweet paprika
- 1 tsp black pepper
- 1 tsp cumin
- 1 tsp salt
- Sauce
- 240 ml water
- 2–3 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tsp tomato purée
- salt and black pepper
- 100 g grated kaşar cheese or mozzarella, for the layers and topping
The original recipe says 1 serving, but it makes 4 towers; here it's one tower per person.
Step by step
- Soak the aubergine slices in well-salted water for 15 minutes and pat them dry.
- Lay them on a tray lined with baking paper, brush them with the oil and a little salt and roast at 200 °C for 20 minutes.
- Meanwhile, brown the mince in a little oil. Add the onion, peppers and garlic and fry.
- Stir in the tomato purée and cook until fragrant. Add the grated tomato and spices and simmer briefly, without adding water. Finish with the parsley.
- In a baking dish, put a slice of aubergine, a spoonful of filling and, if you like, some cheese.
- Repeat the layers three times (aubergine, meat and cheese) and finish with meat, cheese and a few slices of tomato. You'll have 4 towers of 3 layers.
- For the sauce, bring all its ingredients to the boil and pour it into the dish.
- Bake in a preheated oven at 200 °C for 20 to 25 minutes.
- Serve hot.