Eggplant meatballs with tomato sauce

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18 April, 2018

Eggplant meatballs with tomato sauce

The truth is that eating healthy is becoming easier with recipes like this, a way to eat vegetables in the most healthy and delicious way.

For the meatballs:

4 cloves of garlic
500 g of eggplant cut into squares with skin
30 g of extra virgin olive oil
180 g of hard bread
fresh parsley
chopped fresh basil
1 egg
1 pinch of salt
1 pinch of black pepper

For tomato sauce:

A jar of 800 g of peeled whole tomato
50 g of extra virgin olive oil
2 tablespoons of sugar
1 teaspoon salt
Fresh basil chopped to sprinkle

Preparation of Eggplant Meatballs

We stumble over the garlic in our glass for what we program
5 seconds / speed 6

With the spatula lower the pieces stuck on the sides and incorporate the eggplant cut into squares and chop everything
5 seconds / speed 6

We remove the spatula again and remove the remains of the walls of our thermomix and add the virgin olive oil and sauté all
7 minutes / 100ºC / Varoma in speed 1.

we add 1/4 of a glass of water and continue for 5 more minutes
7 minutes / 100ºC / Varoma in speed 1.

Once finished we program
5 seconds at speed 5

We remove the mixture and put it in a bowl and let it rest for 20-30 minutes to temper it,

We put in our glass of thermomix without washing with the possible remains that remain the bread cut into pieces, 2 cloves of garlic, the basil and parsley (these last to taste) and we crush everything
15 seconds / speed 10

We return with our friend the spatula to lower the pieces attached to the walls of our glass

Put inside the glass of our thermomix, the meat of the eggplant reserved in the bowl, together with the salt, the pepper and the egg and mix
25 seconds, left turn and speed 3

We put everything back in a bowl and preheat the oven to 200º

We make balls with the mass of the aubergines, the size to the taste of each one and we bake 20 minutes at 180ºC

Preparation of tomato sauce