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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Asian >> Middle Eastern >> Rest Middle Eastern

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat oven to 220degrees Celsius. | 2. Slice the eggplants in 2cm thick slices. | 3. Coat each slice using the 1/4 cup of olive oil. | 4. Lay the slices on a tray and add salt and pepper. | 5. Bake for about 20-30 minutes or until brown. | 6. Remove from oven and set aside. Turn oven to 180 degrees Celsius. | 7. Meanwhile, chop the onions and garlic finely. | 8. Peel and slice the carrots into discs. | 9. Heat some olive oil in a heavy based pan. | 10. Fry the onions and garlic til translucent. | 11. Add the lamb and brown. | 12. Add the cinnamon, cardamom powder, coriander powder, cayenne pepper and paprika and coat the lamb pieces. | 13. Add the jar of passata and the red wine and bring to boil. | 14. Add the carrots. | 15. Add the bayleaf and parsley. | 16. Simmer on a very low heat for several hours until the lamb is very tender and falls apart in the stew. Keep checking regularly, stirring, and adding water if necessary. (The end result has to be a thick stew). | 17. To make the white sauce, melt the butter in a saucepan. | 18. Add the flour and stirfry for a minute or two. | 19. Remove from heat and slowly stir in milk. | 20. Add all the cheese and return to heat. | 21. Slowly heat until thickened. | 22. Add the egg, cook for a further few minutes. | 23. Add the nutmeg and some salt and pepper to taste and then remove from heat. | 24. To assemble the dish, pour the ragu into the bottom of a casserole dish. | 25. Add the slices of eggplant as the next layer. | 26. Pour white sauce over the eggplant. | 27. Sprinkle breadcrumbs over white sauce. | 28. Add knobs of butter on breadcrumbs if you like. | 29. Bake for about 40 minutes. | 30. Let stand for 15 minutes then serve. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
eggplant	2			-	-	-	-
lamb	300		diced	363333.6	0.0	22970.304	29379.672000000002
passata	1	jar		-	-	-	-
olive oil	1/4	cup		477.36	0.0	0.0	54.0
red wine	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
brown onion	1			-	-	-	-
garlic clove	2			-	-	-	-
cinnamon	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cardamom powder	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
cayenne pepper	1/2	teaspoon		2.862	0.5097	0.1081	0.1554
hot paprika	1/2	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
coriander	1/2	teaspoon	ground	2.682	0.4949	0.1113	0.1599
bay leaf	1			-	-	-	-
parsley	2	tablespoons	chopped	2.736	0.4811	0.2257	0.06
carrot	2			104.96	24.5248	2.3808	0.6144
plain flour	1/2	cup		-	-	-	-
butter	100			8550.0	392.85	267.15	720.0
milk	2 1/4	cups		334.89	26.2422	17.2935	17.9523
egg	1			71.5	0.36	6.28	4.755
cheese	1/3	cup	grated	158.85	1.053	9.63	12.933
parmesan cheese	1/4	cup	grated	74.0	8.0	8.0	1.0
nutmeg	1/2	teaspoon		5.775	0.5422	0.0642	0.3994
breadcrumb	1/4	cup		-	-	-	-
salt				-	-	-	-
pepper				-	-	-	-

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