Baked Eggplant and Ground Beef

Ingredients:
4 cups thinly sliced eggplant
1 onion thinly sliced
2 cloves roasted garlic minced
vegetable oil cooking spray
12 ounces lean ground beef
1 tablespoon fresh oregano
1/2 teaspoon cinnamin
1/2 teaspoon cumin
1/8 teaspoon salt
black pepper to taste
1 cup tomato sauce
1/2 cup water

Directions:
1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees. Heat a heavy bottomed skillet over medium heat.
2. Coat the eggplant, onion, and roasted garlic with cooking spray. Place on a sheet pan and cook in the oven for 15 minutes.
3. Coat the hot skillet with cooking spray. Cook the beef in the skillet, stirring often until browned about 5 minutes. Stir in the oregano, cinnamin, cumin, salt and pepper.
4. Coat a square 9 inch pan with cooking spray. Pour in 1/2 cup tomato sauce and top with 1/2 eggplant mixture, 1/2 beef mixture, the remaining 1/2 eggplant mixture and the beef mixture. Pour in the remaining 1/2 cup tomato sauce. Pour water around the edges of the pan.
5. Cook in the oven for 40 minutes and serve.

This was good. I liked it. You only need one eggplant to make this recipe. U could however easily double this recipe and use two eggplants. This one can take a while to make though because you would definitely need at least two cookie sheets to bake all the eggplant as suggested. I did not use any roasted garlic in my version and I used canned marinara sauce from Trader Joes. This recipe is from The Best Life Diet Cookbook.