Meat with eggplant and potatoes in a slow cooker

Step-by-step cooking

1. Step 1:

   

   Necessary ingredients. Rinse the meat under running water, peel potatoes, onions and carrots and wash well, pepper, eggplant, tomato and greens just wash and dry

2. Step 2:

   

   Cut the eggplant lengthwise into 4 parts, then crosswise with a thickness of 1 cm. It's good that there is an abundance of vegetables in supermarkets now and even in winter you can treat yourself to fresh eggplants

3. Step 3:

   

   Now we salt well and set aside - so all the bitterness will go out of them

4. Step 4:

   

   Cut the meat, but not finely

5. Step 5:

   

   We set the program "Baking". In the bowl of the slow cooker, add olive oil and spread the meat. In the meantime, let's take care of the rest of the vegetables

6. Step 6:

   

   Cut potatoes into large cubes

7. Step 7:

   

   Pepper is also cut coarsely

8. Step 8:

   

   Cut the onion coarsely

10. Step 9:

    

    Cut the tomato into a large cube too

11. Step 10:

    

    While we were slicing vegetables, the meat was already fried. It took me 15 minutes

12. Step 11:

    

    Now we are setting the program "To extinguish " for 50 minutes

13. Step 12:

    

    Add the remaining vegetables to the meat, salt, add Provencal herbs and black pepper, add a glass of hot water and mix, you can also cold, but then the cooking time must be increased

14. Step 13:

    

    After 20 minutes, add tomato juice, you can replace it with tomato paste. But I have homemade juice and I trust him more. In principle, you can add juice immediately when laying vegetables

15. Step 14:

    

    The end of the program signal sounded. Finely chop the herbs and garlic

16. Step 15:

    

    Add to stewed vegetables and meat, close the lid and leave - let them soak in the aromas of each other. I do this on the "Heating" mode, which I turn on immediately after the end of the program - I think in other slow cookers the same way. After 10 minutes, we put them on plates and try

17. Step 16:

    

    Bon appetit!