Khoresht Baademjaan

Ingredients: (4 servings)

*Lamb or beef, 400 grams
*Small eggplants, 8
*Medium onions, 3
*Tomato paste, 2 spoons
*Fresh lime juice, 2 spoons
*Cooking oil
*Salt 

Directions:
Peel onions and slice thinly. Fry in oil until slightly golden. Cut meat into small pieces and fry with onions until color changes. Bring 2-3 glasses of water to a boil, and add to meat. Add salt and pepper, and cook over medium heat for about one hour. When meat is cooked, there should be about one glass of water left. Add tomato paste and lime juice, and mix well.

Peel eggplants and slice length-wise to a thickness of 1 cm. Add salt on both sides and fry in abundant oil on both sides over medium/low heat until golden. Place eggplants over meat (but do not mix with meat). Place the lid on and cook over low heat for another 10 minutes.