Baked Stuffed Eggplant

Ingredients:

1 large eggplant
1 medium onion
1 lb lean ground beef
½ c tomato paste (or more if needed)
½ c shredded Swiss cheese
salt & pepper (optional garlic salt)

Wash eggplant and cut in half lengthwise. Remove the pulp leaving ½ inch of the outer shell. Using cooking brush, apply olive oil on eggplant skin. Dice the pulp. Saute the onions, seasonings and meat in olive oil. Stir in the eggplant pulp and tomatoe paste. Cook until meat is slightly done. Spoon meat mixture into eggplant shell and sprinkle cheese on the mixture. Place stuffed eggplant in oven proof dish and bake at 350 C degree for 20 minutes.