What is Polpette?It is a ball of ground meat, fish or vegetables. It is covered with flour or breadcrumbs and then fried in oil.
Ingredients
Eggplants Mix
3eggplants cut in small cubes
1tbspsalt
2tbspdry basil
2 tbspdry oregano
2 red onions
3garlic cloves
3 tbspvegetable oil
Eggplant Polpette
3eggs
1cupparmigiano cheese
1cupshredded mozzarella cheese
1 1/2cupbreadcrumbs
2cupsbreadcrumbs
Instructions
Eggplants Mix
Preheat the oven at 375 degrees.
Cut the eggplants into small cubes, and then put them into a bowl.
Diced the red onions and put them into the same bowl with the eggplants.
Add the vegetable oil, and the spices and mix.
Spread all the vegetables onto a baking sheet and bake the vegetables for 35 minutes at 375 degrees. When cooked let them cool down, this way it will easier to roll them.
The Eggplant Polpette
Put all the cooked vegetables into a bowl.
Add the eggs, the cheese and the breadcrumbs and mix with a wooden spoon.
Pour 2 cups of breadcrumbs onto a flat plate. This will be for breading the Polpette.
Take a spoon and take the quantity that you want in order to make the eggplant balls. Roll all your Polpette and set aside.
Take each ball and roll them into breadcrumbs, do this procedure for all of them. Then set them aside.
Into a skillets pour some oil. You don't want to deep fry them. Pour just enough oil to cook one side at a time. It takes about 3 minutes per side. If you have a deep fryer you can do it too, just follow the instruction of your machine:)
Notes
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Course: Main Course
Cuisine: Italian
Keywords: baking, eggplants, mac and cheese, marinara sauce, meatballs, meatless, passata, pasta, poplpette, spaghetti, tomato sauce