Eggplant casserole with chickpeas and tomato sauce - Mussakaa.
You can have Eggplant casserole with chickpeas and tomato sauce - Mussakaa using 9 ingredients and 4 steps. Here is how you achieve that.
Ingredients of Eggplant casserole with chickpeas and tomato sauce - Mussakaa
- Prepare 3 of large eggplants, peeled and cut into long thick slices.
- It's 1 cup of canned chickpeas.
- It's 4 of large tomatoes, peeled and cut into slices.
- Prepare 2 of large onions, cut into thin slices.
- You need 1 tablespoon of tomato paste, dissolved in 1 cup water.
- You need 6 cloves of garlic, chopped.
- It's 2 tablespoons of olive oil.
- Prepare 1 cup of vegetable oil, for frying.
- It's 1 teaspoon of salt.
Eggplant casserole with chickpeas and tomato sauce - Mussakaa step by step
- In a deep frying pan, heat the vegetable oil and fry the eggplant slices until they turn golden. Remove and place on a kitchen absorbent paper..
- In a cooking pot, heat the olive oil and fry the onion slices until they turn golden and soft..
- Add the fried eggplants, chickpeas, tomato slices, chopped garlic, tomato paste and salt. Cover the pot and leave it to cook on medium heat for 15 min or until the sauce thickens. Remove from heat and let it cool. Adjust salt to taste..
- Best served cold..