Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant)
Karniyarik (Stuffed eggplant)

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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.

To get started with this particular 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 that.

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

It is served almost in all restaurants in Turkey. Etymologically, karniyarik literally means "riven belly". Turks particularly like eggplant, which is a key ingredient for many of the country's traditional recipes. Contributor "Barely any other recipes find cooks so united in what belongs, and what doesn't, as the stuffed eggplant.

Steps 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

Hearty and refined, this dish can be served with couscous, flat bread, or rice.". 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.

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