Wild rice with chicken, eggplant and bell pepper

1. Rinse the rice well in cold water. Drain the water, put the rice in a saucepan, add a little salt, pour water in a ratio of 1 to 4 and put it on the stove. Bring to a boil without a lid, reduce the heat, cover and cook for 30 minutes.
2. Cut onion, chicken fillet, bell pepper into small cubes. Cut the eggplant into thin longitudinal tongues. Cut the trimmings into small cubes. Twist the tomatoes into a meat grinder or cut into cubes (then it is better to remove the skin).
3. Add salt to the eggplant slices, put them in a microwave container with a lid and bring them to softness and semi-readiness. Eggplants can also be fried in a frying pan with oil or brought to condition in the oven, in a steamer it is still possible, you can boil it.
4. Heat a little oil in a frying pan and fry the chicken (2-3 minutes with constant stirring until the color changes). Remove the meat from the pan.
5. If necessary, add oil to the pan and put the onion. Add salt, stir. The onion will give juice, and you will collect the carbon from the meat on the onion. It tastes better this way. Bring the onion to transparency. Add pepper, stir, cook for a minute and add eggplant cubes. Stir and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
6. Return the chicken to the vegetables, stir and add the tomato puree. If you have diced tomatoes, put them in the pan at the same time as the eggplant. Add salt and pepper to taste. Stir, warm up.
7. Put the finished rice in a colander and rinse. Let the water drain.
8. Put the eggplant strips in the pan with rays so as to close all the walls. Half of each strip should hang freely over the sides. Put the vegetables and chicken on the eggplant and smooth it out. The next layer is Fig. Flatten and cover the eggplant with hanging strips. Put it in the oven (180 degrees) for 20 minutes. After 10 minutes in the oven, brush the eggplants with olive oil.
9. Remove the finished dish from the oven, cover with a large serving plate and turn the rice with chicken in eggplant onto a plate, remove the pan.
10. For decoration, put parsley in a circle, and in the center - spirals of sweet pepper. To make the pepper curl well, boil it for a minute, bake for 2 minutes or hold it in the microwave until soft. Pickled Bulgarian pepper is also perfect here.
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