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Mafrum - Meat-Stuffed Eggplant
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Mafrum - Meat-Stuffed Eggplant

Traditional Libyan mafrum - fried eggplant slices stuffed with ground meat and cooked in tomato sauce

⏱ 1 hr 20 min🍽 4 servings 🌍 Middle Eastern👩‍🍳 Afoona🧩 2 parts
🥩 Meat🌾 Gluten-free

👨‍🍳 Method

For the Meatball mix

  1. 1
    Mix the ground meat with the onion, garlic, parsley, cumin, paprika, salt and black pepper until evenly combined.

To assemble

  1. 2
    Cut the potatoes into thick slices of 2 cm.
    KnifeCutting board
  2. 3
    Salt the slices, leave them 20 minutes to drain and pat dry.
    ColanderKitchen towel
  3. 4
    Heat the oil in a pan and fry the slices on both sides until golden.
    StoveFrying pan
  4. 5
    Put a spoonful of the mixture on a slice, cover with another slice and press lightly.
  5. 6
    Mix the tomato paste, the water, the lemon juice and salt and pour into the bottom of a wide pot.
    Wide, shallow pot
  6. 7
    Arrange the mafrum in the pot.
    Wide, shallow pot
  7. 8
    Cover and cook over low heat 40 minutes.
    StoveWide, shallow pot
  8. 9
    Serve hot with white rice.
411calories
22 gprotein
14 gcarbs
27 gfat
● protein 22%● carbs 15%● fat 63%

Per serving (516 g), of 4 servings

For the Meatball mix · To assemble ·

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⚖ About the ingredients

🔧 Tools needed (7) · 🍳 2 cooking vessels

  • Stove · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Portable hot plate (one weaker burner) · Camping gas stove (One burner, outdoors) · Electric pressure cooker (multicooker) (One pot, no real shallow frying)
  • Frying pan · Also works: Wok (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (High sides, slow evaporation and weak browning)
  • Wide, shallow pot · Also works: Deep skillet (sauté pan) (None) · 💡 Workaround, changes the dish: Pot (Layers instead of a single layer)
  • Cutting board · Also works: Plate (Large plate, dulls the knife)
  • Knife · Also works: Food processor (Fast, less control over size) · Kitchen shears (For herbs/dough)
  • Colander · Also works: Lid (a lid held slightly open over the sink, you lose a little) · Slotted spoon (for small amounts)
  • Kitchen towel · Also works: Plastic wrap (Plastic wrap over the bowl) · Paper towels (None)

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🧩 Built from…

Meatball mix → Mafrum

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