Description: You want to surprise your family, partner or friends at home? Try this. It looks complicated, but it is not as complicated as you think. 
Serves: 2 pieces
Cooking time: 40 minutes

Ingredients 

• Beef mince (5%) – 150g
• Onion – chopped, 1 piece or 150g
• Garlic – chopped in fine pieces, 3 cloves
• Salt – 2 dashes
• Ground black pepper – 2 dashes
• Aubergine – 1 piece or 200g
• Mozzarella cheese – 40g
• Fresh parsley – 1 tablespoon

Sauce

• Salt – 2 dashes
• Ground black pepper – 2 dashes
• Tomato tin – 200 mL
• Onion – chopped, 1 piece or 150g
• Bay leaves – 2 leaves (optional)

Method

1. In a large non-stick frying pan, cook the meat, onions and garlic with salt and black pepper over medium heat. Meanwhile, preheat the oven to 180C.
2. Cut an incision on the Aubergine (4-5mm width). Stop just before you cut through so that the slices stay connected at the bottom of the aubergine. You can place a spoon or chopsticks next to the aubergine (both sides) and when the knife hits them, stop slicing. You can do it on the other side but not the same direction (e.g. if you do vertically first, then make incision with 30 degree so that you won’t chop off the aubergine in pieces)
3. In a small saucepan, cook the onions over medium heat. Then add the tomato tin, salt, pepper and bay leaves. You may want to add some water if the sauce gets too thick.
4. Stuff the meat into the centre of the aubergine. Add the cheese on top. 
(Alternatively, if you prefer, you can mix the cheese with the stuffing you made at step no.1).
5. Grill it for 20 minutes.

To serve: Put the tomato sauce on the bottom, then place the baked aubergines. Put some more tomato sauce on top. Sprinkle it with parsley and black pepper.

Nutritional Values Per Serving (1 piece)

Kcal	Protein	Fat	Carbs	Fibre	Sugars	Salt	Saturated Fat	Zinc	Vitamin B12
312.8	30.2g	9.2g	25.7g	7.6g	13.2g	1.3g	4.5g	5.7mg	1.1μg
15.6%	60.4%	13.1%	9.9%	25.4%	14.7%	29.2%	22.3%	81.4%	74.7%

Nutritional Tips

You can have some calcium intake from this dish if your children do not like milk or are lactose-intolerant as some cheeses are low in lactose. You can add more cheese to increase the intake but bear in mind that cheese is fat and high in energy. Therefore, it is important to consider other meals (e.g. opt for healthier snacks for the day such as fruits, vegetable sticks, yoghurt etc). Lactose tolerance levels vary depending on the individual. Please seek professional advice for further details.

You can also use any favorite vegetables such as mushrooms, broccoli, asparagus, cauliflowers, corn, peas, tomatoes and peppers. It works better with less watery vegetables but you can make it with watery vegetables. Either pre-cook watery vegetables before you make the stuffing or use salt toremove water in advance. #calcium2 #vitaminkrich