Ingredients:

  Amount  Measure       Ingredient -- Preparation Method
--------  ------------  --------------------------------
  25             small  batinjaan -- (eggplant)
  1 1/4           cups  rice
     1/2           cup  hummus -- (chick peas) or
                        -- chopped walnuts
  1                cup  chopped parsley
     1/2           cup  chopped onions
  1 1/2                 chopped tomatoes
  1                cup  olive oil
     1/2           cup  chopped green pepper
  1 1/2      teaspoons  salt
     1/2      teaspoon  pepper
  1 1/2           cups  water
  2              large  tomatoes -- quartered

Preparation:

Soak hummus overnight. Wash batinjaan, cut thin slice from one end and hollow carefully with small spoon, or an apple corer (see stuffed kousa). Place soaked hummus on board and crush with rolling pin to split the peas and work their skins loose. Make a stuffing of rice, hummus, parsley, onions, chopped tomatoes, salt, pepper, green pepper and olive oil. Moisten with one half cup water. Stuff the eggplant. Place layer of the quartered tomatoes in bottom of pressure cooker. Cover with 12 cups water. Place stuffed eggplant on top of tomatoes in neat layers. Sprinkle lightly with salt. Cook under pressure 12 minutes, then simmer uncovered until mahshi are very tender and the sauce is reduced. Turn onto a round serving platter. Serve cold. These mahshi may be cooked without pressure. Prepare as above, but increase water to cover mahshi. Cook covered until tender. Simmer uncovered to thicken sauce.

Nutritional Information:

782 Calories (kcal); 58g Total Fat; (65% calories from fat); 8g Protein; 60g Carbohydrate; 0mg Cholesterol; 943mg Sodium