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The ingredients needed to cook Papoutsakia:

1. Provide 4 of aubergines.
2. Prepare of Cheese, grated.
3. Provide of Mince.
4. Take 500 g of mince.
5. Get 1 of onion.
6. Get 2 cloves of garlic.
7. Provide 1 can of chopped tomatoes.
8. Use 1 tbsp of tomato purée.
9. Use 1 of carrot, grated.
10. Take 1 of bay leaf.
11. Take 1/2 stick of cinnamon.
12. You need 60 ml of brandy.
13. Use of White sauce.
14. Prepare 600 ml of milk.
15. Use 40 g of flour.
16. Take 40 g of butter.
17. Prepare 1 of egg.
18. Provide of Salt.
19. Take of Tomato sauce.
20. Provide of Water.
21. Use 250 g of passata.
22. Prepare of Olive oil.
23. Get of Salt and pepper.

Steps to make Papoutsakia:

1. Cut in the aubergines in half, leaving the top stark attached. Score flesh in a diamond pattern, put oil and salt on top then cook at 200oC for 30min.
2. For the mince, brown the mince in a pan then add the onions and garlic. Cook for 5min.
3. Add tomato purée, brandy, cinnamon stick, sugar, bay leaf, carrots and chopped tomatos. Season with salt and pepper. Put the lid on the pan and simmer on low heat for 30min. Remove cinnamon after 5min.
4. For the white sauce, put the butter, flour and milk in a sauce pan, heat and stir continuously until thicken. Take of the heat, add the egg and stir in..
5. To assemble, in an oven proof dish, lightly mash the aubergine flesh with a spoon and make a crater for the mince. Add the mince then white sauce and finally the grated cheese on top..
6. For the tomato sauce, mix the passata, oil and water. Pour into the dish so it surrounds the aubergines but doesn’t go on the top of them..
7. Cook at 200oC for 40min.

The recipe is called Papoutsakia (=small shoes), or stuffed eggplants. Like many things in Greece this recipe is closely connected with our Turkish neighbours as you will find that eggplants are a common thing on our cuisine. Back in the days of the Ottoman empire they have created a thousand different ways to cook eggplants. The summer is almost over and only two eggplant recipes on the blog? Unbelievable, inexcusable and unthinkable, all together.

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