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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Heat oven to 400 degrees, slice eggplant into ½ inch slices, coat with olive oil salt and pepper. Lie flat on cookie sheet and bake until tender (about 15 minutes). | 2. In small saucepan, sauté onion and garlic until tender. Add can crushed tomatoes with 1 tsp Italian seasoning. Simmer for about 10 minutes. | 3. Brown ground beef with 1 tsp greek seasoning, 1tsp Italian seasoning, add tomato sauce and stir through. Adjust with salt if needed. | 4. Reduce oven to 350 degrees. In 9x9 pyrex casserole dish, put layer of crushed tomato mixture and spread around on bottom, add layer of cooked eggplant, spread layer of ricotta cheese, add layer of beef, layer of mozzarella, and repeat all layers, ending with the layer of crushed tomatoes, topped by the parmesan cheese. Put in oven for 30 minutes until lightly browned on top. Let set for about 15 minutes before slicing. Delicious! | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
eggplant	4		peeled	-	-	-	-
olive oil	2	tablespoons		238.68	0.0	0.0	27.0
beef	1 1/4		ground	1122.6425	0.0	110.1097	72.178
ricotta cheese	16	ounces		789.2499	13.7892	51.0744	58.8762
mozzarella cheese	8	ounces	shredded	734.8188	61.7339	30.7535	40.5284
parmesan cheese	4	ounces	shredded	419.5725	45.3592	45.3592	5.6699
tomato	15 1/4	ounces	crushed	99.4358	22.0488	5.188	0.8647
tomato sauce	8	ounces		256.284	40.8013	13.3585	4.4453
garlic	4	ounces	chopped	168.963	37.4894	7.2121	0.5670000000000001
onion	8	ounces	chopped	90.7184	21.1827	2.4948	0.2268
italian seasoning	2	teaspoons		-	-	-	-
greek seasoning	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
salt				-	-	-	-

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