Parmesan Stuffed Eggplant

Dear stuffed veggie lovers and eggplant fanatics, I have brought you heaven on earth!

The best part, if not the delicious taste and texture of stuffed eggplant, is how the taste intensifies after a day, so leftovers are twice as exciting! Well, the goal is to have our leftovers deemed as "exciting" ... 

This recipe requires a bit more ingredients from the supermarket, but never fear. Serving size is a fourth of an eggplant, and this calls for three whole eggplants! Food for a week, basically!

Tick off from your grocery list: eggplants, tomatoes, green peppers, and a white onion.

Prepare eggplants by rinsing them, slicing off the leafy heads, and slicing cleanly in half.

Next, spoon out the spongy insides into a bowl. Save for later.

Just like an apple, the eggplant will start to oxidize and brown immediately. Not to worry, it will all be covered with stuffing.

Set your eggplant shells in a casserole dish and let's turn to the rest of the vegetables.

Dice the onions! Dice the green peppers! Slice the tomatoes, squeeze out the seeds and pulp, and dice em' up too!

Next, dice the eggplant you spooned out minutes before.

Finally, breadcrumbs add the final touch to our scrumptious (and secretly healthy) stuffing. If you happen to have ground flax seed and wheat bran from previous recipes, bring them out!

With a spruce of fresh parsley diced and ready, drizzle a deep pan with oil and saute the eggplant and vegetables until soft.

Mix in breadcrumbs and wheat bran/flax seed.

Lastly, Parmesan cheese is our star of the show. You can pour in as much as you'd like, which can be dangerous for the cheese-lover in me.

Our stuffing is finally completed. 

With a generous drizzle of olive oil over each eggplant, spoon the stuffing into each shell. 

Tuck them snugly against one another in the casserole pan so they don't roll about.

Preheat oven to 400F and bake for 40 minutes, covered with foil. For the last 10 minutes, remove foil.

Carefully slice the halves into halves for serving, and all finished! So savory.

Enjoy~!