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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Cut eggplants lengthwise into halves. | 2. Drop into a lare kettle of boiling water and simmer until soft, but not mushy. | 3. Drain, cool enough to handle, and scoop out the pulp withoput damaging the shells. | 4. Set the shells aside to drain. | 5. Heat 3 tablespoons of the oil in a large skillet and cook the green peppers, onions, celery and garlic in it, stirring now and then, until vegetables are limp. | 6. Add the scooped out eggplant pulp, cover, and let the mixture "smother" over medium heat until most of the water has evaporated. | 7. Add shrimp and cook for 20 minutes longer. | 8. Transfer everything to a large bowl and fold in the crab meat and parsley. | 9. Season to taste. | 10. Let the stuffing cool a little, then fold in as much of the bread crumbs need to make a rather firm stuffing. | 11. Fill the eggplant shells. | 12. Sprinkle the rest of the crumbs on top, then sprinkle with paprika. | 13. Dribble the remainder of the oil on the top. | 14. Bake in preheated 350ºF oven for 30 minutes or longer, until heated through and browned on top. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
eggplant	6			-	-	-	-
olive oil	4	tablespoons		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
green pepper	4		diced	119.2	27.6544	5.1256	1.0132
onion	4		chopeed	176.0	41.096000000000004	4.84	0.44
celery	1/2	cup	chopped	8.08	1.4999	0.3484	0.0859
garlic clove	3		chopped	-	-	-	-
shrimp	1	lb	shelled medium-sized	321.8674	4.1253	61.6988	4.5787
lump crabmeat	1			380.8009	0.0	82.9149	2.72
parsley	1/2	cup	chopped	10.8	1.899	0.8909999999999999	0.237
salt				-	-	-	-
black pepper			ground	-	-	-	-
red pepper flake			crushed	-	-	-	-
breadcrumb	2	cups		-	-	-	-
paprika	1	teaspoon		6.486000000000001	1.2418	0.3252	0.2965

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.