Ingredients
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2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
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1 cup finely chopped onion
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1 crushed garlic clove
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1/2 teaspoon dried oregano leaves
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1 teaspoon dried basil leaves
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1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
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1 teaspoon salt
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1 dash pepper
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2 medium eggplants
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1 dash salt
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1/2 cup butter or 1/2 cup margarine, melted
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2 tablespoons butter or 2 tablespoons margarine
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2 tablespoons flour
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1/2 teaspoon salt
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1 dash pepper
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2 cups milk
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1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese
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1/2 cup grated cheddar cheese
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1 1/2 lbs ground chuck or 1 1/2 lbs lamb
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2 (8 ounce) cans tomato sauce
Instructions
- Meat Sauce:
- Melt butter in a 3 1/2 Quart Dutch oven, sauté onion, ground chuck or lamb and garlic, stirring until brown, 10 minutes.
- Add herbs, spices and tomato sauce and stirring until it starts to boiling.
- Reduce heat and simmer, uncover, 1/2 hour.
- Halve unpaired eggplants lengthwise. Slice 1/2-inch thick.
- Place in bottom of broiler and sprinkle lightly with salt.
- Brush lightly with melted butter.
- Broil 4-inches from heat, 4 minutes per side, or until golden.
- Preheat oven to 350 Degrees.
- Make Cream Sauce.
- In medium saucepan, melt butter.
- Remove from heat and stir in flour, salt and pepper. Add milk gradually.
- Bring to boiling, stirring until thickened.
- Remove from heat.
- In small bowl beat eggs with wire whisk.
- Beat in some hot Cream Sauce mixture. Return mixture to saucepan and mix well. Set aside.
- To assemble casserole, in bottom of shallow, 2 quart baking dish (12x7x2 inches).
- Layer half of eggplants, overlapping slightly. Sprinkle with 2 Tbsp of each of grated parmesan and cheddar cheese. Stir bread crumbs into meat sauce. Spoon evenly over eggplant in casserole, then sprinkle with 2 Tbsp of each of parmesan and cheddar cheese.
- Layer rest of eggplant spices, overlapping, as before. Pour Cream Sauce over all. Sprinkle top of remaining cheese.
- Back 35 to 40 Minutes or until golden brown and top is set.
- If desired, brown top of little more under broiler, 1 minute.
- Cool slightly to serve. Cut in Squares.