Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant)
Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant)

Hey everyone, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, karniyarik (stuffed eggplant). It is one of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a bit tasty. This will be really 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.

Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant) is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions every day. It is simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. They’re fine and they look wonderful. Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant) is something which I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few components. You can have karniyarik (stuffed eggplant) using 11 ingredients and 12 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant):
  1. Get 8 medium narrow eggplants
  2. Take 1 green pepper (Italian)
  3. Take 2 tomatoes
  4. Take 1 1/2 lbs ground beef
  5. Get 2 tbsp tomato paste
  6. Prepare 2 cloves garlic / chopped
  7. Get 2 dry onions / chopped thinly
  8. Prepare 1/2 bunch Italian parsley
  9. Take to taste Cumin, salt, pepper
  10. Make ready Olive oil to brush eggplants
  11. Take 1 or 1/2 half cup of hot water

Aubergine, Eggplant or Patilican whatever name you use, is a popular vegetable here in Turkey, its used in Salads, Moussaka and many other dishes. But probably the best know Turkish dish with Eggplant is, Karniyarik, or Stuffed Eggplant. This dish dates back to the Ottoman times and is a dish you will find where ever you go in Turkey. Karniyarik is a stuffed eggplant dish from Turkey, similar to another popular Turkish dish, Imam Bayildi, which is similar but made without ground meat.

Instructions to make Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant):
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. Dry them with paper towel, cut a slit in the center of the eggplants lengthwise, and brush with olive oil
  4. Put into broiler, turn them over do not let them burn
  5. They look like these. Next set the oven 375°F/190°C
  6. Find your slit open up with a spoon, make some space for the meat stuffing.
  7. Fill them up
  8. You are done with stuffing
  9. Decorate them with tomatoes and pepper
  10. Make sauce by mixing paste with hot water, pour over baking dish, (not over eggplants)
  11. Cook at 375 around 30 mins
  12. They are ready

Eggplants got their name from their egg-like shape, although they are referred to as aubergines nearly everywhere outside of the United States. Eggplants were probably first cultivated in India. 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. Cook until tender, taste and adjust seasonings.

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