sig's Stuffed Aubergine (vegetarian)

• 1 For the recipe, it comes from Turkish people that I know that settled in Germany .
• 4 small aubergines
• 1 1/2 cup of good vegetable oil
• 4 onions,thinly sliced
• 5 clove garlic, thinly sliced
• 2 tbsp freshly chopped parsely
• 1 pinch salt
• 1 tsp sweet paprika,
• 1 tomato,thinly sliced
• 4 jalapeno peppers, halved

1. Wash the aubergines, remove the stem .Peel thin strips to create stripes.Insert a knife deeply into on of the stripes and make a long cut.Just push the knife into all the other stripes in several places,but make no long cuts.This will help with the cooking of aubergine.
2. Heat one cup oft the oil ,slightly brown aubergine from all sides.
3. Slice onions and garlic thinly, soften in another pan with the rest of the oil
4. Add parsely,salt and paprika, mix well
5. Preheat oven to 180C/350F/ gas 4
6. Place aubergine with the long cut up in a buttered ovenproof dish
7. Fill the deep cut with the onionmix season with salt.Add two slices of tomatoes and 2 halves of jalapeno peppers
8. Add about 1/2 a cup of water around the aubergine.
9. Bake in oven for about 25 -30 minutes.
10. You can eat this hot or cold .

recipe, aubergines, vegetable oil, onions, clove garlic, salt, sweet paprika, tomato, peppers

Taken from cookpad.com/us/recipes/337850-sigs-stuffed-aubergine-vegetarian (may not work)