Hey everyone, it is Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, karniyarik (stuffed eggplant). It is one of my favorites. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Eggplants are stuffed with a perfectly seasoned filling of lamb, peppers, and herbs and roasted until ultra tender in Chef's John's easy recipe for Turkish karniyarik. Karniyarik is a classic Turkish stuffed eggplant recipe. Delicious eggplants are stuffed with a tasty ground beef, pepper and tomatoes filling and are baked to perfection.
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To get started with this recipe, we must first prepare a few components. You can cook karniyarik (stuffed eggplant) using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant):
- Get 8 medium narrow eggplants
- Prepare 1 green pepper (Italian)
- Take 2 tomatoes
- Prepare 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
- Make ready 2 tbsp tomato paste
- Take 2 cloves garlic / chopped
- Make ready 2 dry onions / chopped thinly
- Make ready 1/2 bunch Italian parsley
- Get to taste Cumin, salt, pepper
- Make ready Olive oil to brush eggplants
- Get 1 or 1/2 half cup of hot water
Contributor "Barely any other recipes find cooks so united in what belongs, and what doesn't, as the stuffed eggplant. Hearty and refined, this dish can be served with couscous, flat bread, or rice.". Karniyarik is a stuffed eggplant dish from Turkey, similar to another popular Turkish dish, Imam Bayildi, which is similar but made without ground meat. Eggplants got their name from their egg-like shape, although they are referred to as aubergines nearly everywhere outside of the United States.
Instructions to make Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant):
- Here are your main ingredients. You will sauté onions, garlic, then add ground beef, chopped tomatoes. After the meat changes the color, add paste and spices, and chopped pepper, set aside.
- Peel the eggplants using the 'stripe' technique : half peel skin, so you have one stripe of skin, and one stripe peeled. Place the eggplants in salty water and let them sit there while preparing the rest of ingredients - around 30 minutes.
- Dry them with paper towel, cut a slit in the center of the eggplants lengthwise, and brush with olive oil
- Put into broiler, turn them over do not let them burn
- They look like these. Next set the oven 375°F/190°C
- Find your slit open up with a spoon, make some space for the meat stuffing.
- Fill them up
- You are done with stuffing
- Decorate them with tomatoes and pepper
- Make sauce by mixing paste with hot water, pour over baking dish, (not over eggplants)
- Cook at 375 around 30 mins
- They are ready
Turkish Stuffed Eggplant (aka Karniyarik) is made by stuffing roasted eggplants with tasty ground beef, pepper and tomatoes filling. Originated from the Ottoman cuisine, this is a delicious way to use eggplants that are in abundance during the summer months. How to Cook Stuffed Eggplants with Ground Lamb Cut the eggplants in half lengthways leaving the stalk intact. Cut eggplants in half, scoop out the inside of the eggplant (I use a melon scoop) , sprinkle salt on the eggplant to prevent browning. Chop and dice the onion, tomatoes and pepper, add to a pan with some olive oil and cook until tender, add ground beef and the seasonings and tomato paste.
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