I think that those who have ever been to Turkey have tried this delicious traditional dish. I am no exception; once you try it, you will definitely want to cook it yourself. Why not? The dish is classified as simple and satisfying, easy to prepare and eaten quickly.
All we need to prepare Turkish eggplant with minced meat is fresh vegetables, quality ground beef and a little time. Let's prepare the products according to the list. Eggplants should be medium-sized so that one eggplant is enough for a serving.
Wash the eggplants and peel them in places, as shown in the photo. On one side, use a knife to make a longitudinal cut lengthwise, without cutting through the end of the eggplant.
Place the frying pan on the fire, pour in 1 tbsp. vegetable oil and fry the eggplants on all sides for 5 minutes on each side, turning the fruits over.
While the eggplants are frying, prepare the filling for them. Chop the onion and garlic very finely and fry in a frying pan, adding the remaining vegetable oil. Fry vegetables for 4-5 minutes until soft.
Then put the minced meat in the pan, add salt and ground black pepper, add 1 tbsp. tomato paste. Stir the minced meat well with a fork so that no lumps form when it is heated. Fry the contents of the pan for another 10-12 minutes.
Add finely chopped parsley or cilantro to the finished filling.
Place the eggplants in a fireproof dish, cut side up.
Stuff the eggplants with the resulting filling.
Cut the tomato into slices and place the slices on top of each eggplant. Cut the chili pepper lengthwise and place the pepper halves on top as well. From 1 tbsp. Make a mixture of tomato paste and 200 ml of water and pour it over the eggplants. Place the form with eggplants in an oven preheated to 180 degrees C for 20-25 minutes.
Serve the prepared Turkish eggplants with minced meat in hot portions as a main dish or side dish.
Bon appetit! This is delicious!!
National dishes are the calling card of any country. Many people go to Turkey on their summer holidays, and rarely does anyone leave without trying eggplant with Turkish minced meat. They are on the menu of almost every cafe. The dish has a very rich taste and aroma, it seems that it is difficult to reproduce in a regular kitchen. In fact, everything is very simple, the only spices used are salt and a mixture of ground peppers, and the ingredients are the simplest.
By cooking Turkish eggplants with minced meat in the oven, you will see that you don’t need to go to distant Turkey to try this wonderful, tasty and satisfying dish.
Step-by-step recipe: Turkish dish of eggplant and minced meat
Ingredients:
- Eggplants - 3 pcs.;
- Tomatoes - 3 pcs.;
- Carrots - 1 pc.;
- Minced pork - 300 g;
- Onion - 1 pc.;
- Garlic - 2 cloves;
- Vegetable oil - 20 ml;
- Salt - 0.25 tsp;
- A mixture of ground peppers.
How to cook eggplant with minced meat in the oven in Turkish style
Wash the vegetables, peel the carrots, onions and garlic.
Cut the eggplants into circles approximately 10 mm thick. Add salt, mix and set aside for 15-20 minutes.
Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan, add grated carrots and quartered onions.
Fry until golden brown. Then add the crushed tomato pulp, after removing the skin. The easiest way to do this is to place it in boiling water for a few minutes. After this technique, the thin tomato skin is very easy to peel. Fresh tomatoes can be replaced with ketchup or tomato juice. Place the garlic that has been pressed through the press.
Simmer for 7-10 minutes.
Place alternately eggplant mugs and minced meat seasoned with a mixture of ground peppers into a suitable sized form. There is no need to add salt; the salt sprinkled on the eggplants is enough.
Spread the vegetable mixture from the pan on top.
Bake in the oven for 30 minutes. If the eggplants are soft, the dish is ready. You can serve eggplant with Turkish minced meat hot or cold. The mold collects quite a lot of aromatic juice, which can be used as a gravy.
Our favorite time of year has arrived, when you can prepare a wide variety of vegetable dishes. Stunningly delicious Turkish eggplants with oriental meat will fit into the family menu and decorate a festive feast. Step-by-step recipe with photos. Video recipe.
Recipe contents:
Turkish cuisine is known all over the world for its delicious and very aromatic dishes. Turkish cuisine ranks 3rd in the world ranking of national cuisines, behind French and Chinese. Its peculiarity is that cooks do not overuse aromatic spices, but preserve the taste of the main ingredient as much as possible. It is important for them that the eggplant tastes like a vegetable, and that the lamb remains a lamb. Today I prepared a recipe for Turkish eggplants. This is a delicious eggplant dish with minced meat. A tasty, fleshy vegetable combined with aromatic meat is an ideal dish for a family dinner, gathering with friends over a glass of wine or a gala feast. Make this appetizer at least once and it will become a real family favorite. But first, I suggest you familiarize yourself with the general principles of cooking.
- It is important to purchase high-quality minced meat, ripe and fresh eggplants.
- Minced meat can be any kind, incl. and mixed. For example, assorted pork and beef or another combination of varieties.
- It is advisable to cook the minced meat yourself.
- Spices and herbs will add a unique “oriental taste” to the appetizer. Use them according to your taste preferences: oregano, paprika, coriander, thyme, basil...
- For the filling, you can choose other ingredients to suit your taste: tomatoes, carrots, onions, garlic, herbs, bell peppers...
- Tomato sauce will complement the appetizer. You can make it yourself or dilute tomato paste with water.
- Calorie content per 100 g - 178 kcal.
- Number of servings - 3
- Cooking time - 1 hour
Ingredients:
- Eggplants - 2 pcs.
- Onions - 1 pc.
- Meat (any variety) - 300 g
- Vegetable oil - for frying
- Tomatoes - 2 pcs.
- Dry white wine - 100 ml
- Dill - several sprigs
- Spices and seasonings - to taste
- Sweet pepper - 1 pc.
- Hot pepper - 1 pc.
- Garlic - 2 pcs.
- Ground black pepper - a pinch
- Salt - 1 tsp.
Step-by-step preparation of Turkish eggplant with meat, recipe with photo:
1. Peel the sweet pepper from seeds with partitions and chop very finely.
2. Peel the onions and finely chop them.
3. Wash the tomatoes, dry them and chop them finely.
4. Finely chop the peeled garlic cloves, dill and hot pepper.
5. In a frying pan in vegetable oil, sauté the onions until slightly transparent.
6. Add bell peppers to the pan and continue frying.
7. Add chopped tomatoes and fry over medium heat for 2 minutes.
8. Pour white wine into the pan, add garlic, herbs and hot pepper. Simmer the food for 5 minutes.
9. Grind the meat and onions through a meat grinder.
10. Season the minced meat with salt and ground black pepper and mix well.
11. Wash the eggplants, dry them and cut them into 5-6 mm rings. If you use ripe fruits, they usually contain bitterness. To remove it, season the eggplants with salt and let sit for half an hour. During this time, droplets will appear on the vegetable, through which bitterness will come out. Rinse them under running water and dry them with a paper towel.
If you want to cook a very tasty and beautiful dish of meat and vegetables, then Turkish stuffed eggplants will definitely suit you. Appetizing stuffed eggplant boats look very impressive when served and are incredibly tasty. Lots of filling, thick and juicy baked eggplant flesh and subtle sourness - don’t miss the chance to feed your loved ones a tasty and healthy dish!
Ingredients:
- eggplants (medium size) - 5 pieces;
- onions (medium size) - 4 pieces;
- garlic - 2 cloves;
- sweet pepper (green and red, one each) - 2 pieces;
- parsley - 1 bunch;
- minced meat (beef) - 250 grams;
- sugar - 2 teaspoons;
- tomato paste - 3 tablespoons;
- salt, ground black pepper - to your taste.
Stuffed eggplants in Turkish style. Step by step recipe
- First of all, you need to wash and peel the eggplants. According to this recipe, you need to clean them like this: cut strips of skin along the eggplant with a knife so that there are also uncleaned areas left. That is, our eggplant should resemble a zebra - black stripe, light stripe, etc.
- There is no need to cut off the tail (peduncle).
- In each eggplant we make a cut along the entire vegetable: half its depth.
- Then put the eggplants in a deep bowl, pour cold water so that it covers the eggplants, add a pinch of salt and leave to soak for 30 - 40 minutes (to remove the bitterness).
- Grease the baking tray well with vegetable oil.
- We also grease each eggplant with vegetable oil (I do this with a silicone brush) and place it on a baking sheet.
- Preheat the oven to 180 degrees and bake the eggplants. They should brown and become soft. The baking time may be different for everyone: since all ovens bake differently, and the eggplants themselves may differ in size.
- Cut the onion into small cubes.
- Heat a frying pan, add a small amount of vegetable oil and add chopped onion.
- Finely chop two cloves of garlic and place in a frying pan.
- Cut the sweet pepper into small pieces and also add it to the frying pan (leave a few pieces of pepper to decorate the stuffed eggplants).
- Finely chop the parsley and add to the pan.
- Add minced meat to the pan and fry everything together.
- Add ground black pepper and salt to taste.
- Take the rosy eggplants out of the oven, push their flesh apart along the cut right on the baking sheet (should resemble boats), sprinkle a little sugar on top of the eggplants.
- Fill each boat with minced meat filling.
- Place a slice of tomato and a slice of sweet pepper on top.
- Dilute the tomato paste with water in a ratio of 1:2 and pour the tomato solution into a baking tray.
- Place the baking sheet with Turkish stuffed eggplants in the oven (temperature 180 degrees) for 20 - 30 minutes.
- Take it out and serve it to the table.
These stuffed eggplants baked in the oven turn out very tasty, filling and juicy thanks to the tomato sauce. It is best to eat them immediately after cooking, warm. The “I Love to Cook” website team wishes you bon appetit.
Few people know that eggplants are most revered in Turkey. It is in this beautiful country that this fruit is called the king of vegetables or the fruit of love.
Surely every housewife has a lot of her favorite recipes, the main ingredient of which is this blue vegetable. Today we will introduce you to a couple more interesting and simple ways to prepare it. Let's talk about Turkish eggplants. Interesting? Then let's get started!
Turkish eggplant baked with cheese
This dish is very satisfying and, most importantly, healthy. It can be served as an appetizer or as a main course.
Purchase the following products for this dish:
- large eggplants (preferably young ones) - 3-4 pcs.;
- minced chicken - 300-500 g;
- cheese - 200 g;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs.;
- large size onion - 1 pc.;
- garlic - 3-4 cloves;
- tomato juice - half a glass;
- sugar - half a tablespoon;
- greens of your choice;
- salt, black and red peppers.
Cooking the dish correctly
We rinse our main ingredient under running water. Cut off the top and use a spoon to scoop out the flesh (each eggplant should resemble a boat). Sprinkle with salt and leave for a few minutes for the bitterness to disappear.
Finely chop the extracted pulp or grind it using a blender. Wash the remaining vegetables, peel and cut into small cubes. Grease the frying pan with oil and place it on the stove. Place onions there, then peppers, then eggplants and tomatoes.
In a separate frying pan, fry the minced meat (5 minutes will be enough), adding a little salt and pepper. Squeeze the garlic and sprinkle with chopped herbs a few seconds before removing the pan from the stove.
In order for our Turkish eggplants with minced meat to acquire a richer taste, they should be fried in vegetable oil (the bottom of the “boat”).
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease the mold with oil and lay out our eggplants. Sprinkle the holes with sugar.
Mix the minced meat with vegetables and start stuffing our “boats”. It doesn’t matter if the filling remains, it can be placed next to the eggplants. This will definitely not spoil the taste of our dish.
Pour plenty of tomato juice over everything on top and sprinkle with grated cheese. Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees. Serve Turkish eggplant with minced meat hot or cold. Enjoy your meal!
Spicy eggplants according to Turkish customs for the winter
Eggplants are an excellent product that can be prepared for the winter. Opening a jar of this aromatic and healthy vegetable in the cold season, you can feel a small and such a joyful piece of summer.
Vitamins and microelements are practically not lost after harvesting, so even in winter, your body will be provided with all the necessary substances. So, in order to prepare Turkish eggplants for the winter, you will need the following products:
- eggplants - 2 kg;
- sweet pepper - 2 kg;
- tomatoes (preferably ripe) - 2 kg;
- chili pepper - 3-4 pcs. (depending on your preferences);
- vegetable oil - 1.5 cups (if you don’t like a very oily product, you can reduce the suggested amount);
- garlic - head;
- salt, sugar.
Cooking according to recipe
We wash and peel all vegetables. Cut the bell pepper into half rings, and the eggplant into large cubes. Place the vegetables in a saucepan, stir and add oil. Wait until it boils, reduce the heat and simmer for 15 minutes. While our Turkish eggplants (photo below) are being prepared, place the washed and peeled tomatoes, garlic into a blender bowl or meat grinder. Grind everything and pour the resulting mixture into our dish, simmer for another 25 minutes. Salt and add sugar to taste. Depending on your taste preferences, you can sprinkle the dish with your favorite spices.
We sterilize the jars and put the prepared salad in them. Seal tightly with lids. Cover with a blanket and leave until completely cool. Store in a cool, dark place. Turkish eggplants are ready for the winter! Enjoy your meal!
Turkish eggplant
As you know, eggplants are a fairly versatile product. They are baked, fried, prepared for the winter, added to soups, etc. Cold snacks made from these healthy vegetables are no less tasty. We'll talk about this below. So, to prepare this dish you need:
- large carrots - 3 pcs.;
- garlic - 4-5 cloves;
- walnuts - 170 g;
- cilantro - 1 bunch;
- oil;
- pepper, salt, spices.
Cooking cold eggplants in Turkish style
The recipe with photos will explain how this delicious and delicate dish is prepared. Cut 2.5 eggplants into slices, the rest into small cubes. Fry the first ones on both sides, adding a little salt and pepper. Peel the carrots, grate them and place them in a frying pan greased with oil. Throw in the diced eggplants. Fry for 1-2 minutes, then reduce the heat and cover the pan with a lid. Let it simmer for about 20 minutes. Don’t forget to stir regularly.
Finely chop the garlic, nuts and cilantro. Mix them with prepared vegetables. Place the resulting minced meat on each plate and roll it into rolls. Secure with toothpicks and leave until completely cool. Now our Turkish stuffed eggplants in the form of rolls are ready. Enjoy your meal!
Eggplants with minced meat in Turkish traditions
This dish looks especially good on the holiday table. It will appeal to everyone without exception. The following ingredients will be required:
- large size eggplants - 4 pcs.;
- beef pulp - 500 g;
- large ripe tomatoes - 6 pcs.;
- bulb;
- milk - 160 ml;
- flour - 10 g;
- large egg;
- garlic - 2-3 cloves;
- butter - 20 g;
- parsley - half a bunch;
- sage - 4-5 leaves;
- breading;
- pepper, salt.
Cooking the dish correctly
Cut the eggplants lengthwise into equal parts. Sprinkle with salt and leave for 30 minutes. Peel the onion and finely chop it. Cut the tomatoes into cubes. Pass the garlic through a garlic press. Finely chop the greens. Blanch the eggplants in boiling water, add salt and remove. After cooling, use a spoon to scoop out the pulp.
Grease a baking dish and place our eggplants there. Fry the onion in a frying pan. Cut the meat into small pieces and add to the onion. Salt, pepper and sprinkle with flour. Add milk and simmer for a minute. Add chopped eggplant pulp, tomatoes, salt, pepper, season and leave to simmer over low heat for 5 minutes. After cooling, add the egg and mix well. Place the minced meat on the eggplants, grease with butter, sprinkle with breading and put in the oven for 30 minutes at 180 degrees.
So our Turkish eggplants are ready. The recipe with minced meat is quite easy, so novice housewives will also succeed in this dish. Enjoy your meal!
vegetables in Turkish
This dish is very tender and tastes amazing. A variety of vegetables will add a pleasant sweetness and unforgettable aroma to eggplants. To prepare Turkish eggplants this way, you should have the following products:
- large young eggplants - 3 pcs.;
- large carrots, preferably young ones - 4 pcs.;
- sweet pepper - 2 pcs.;
- large ripe tomatoes - 4 pcs.;
- bulbs - 2 pcs.;
- greens of your choice;
- salt, red.
Cooking according to the recipe
Wash the eggplants and cut into medium-thick slices. Sprinkle with salt and leave for 20 minutes to remove unnecessary bitterness. After this, we rinse the eggplant slices again under running water and leave them on a towel to dry. In the meantime, let's move on to the rest of the vegetables.
Peel the carrots, wash them and grate them on a coarse grater. Cut tomatoes and peppers into cubes. Finely chop the onion. In a heated frying pan, greased with oil, first add the onions, then the carrots. After a few minutes, add peppers and tomatoes. Salt, pepper, season according to your wishes.
In a separate frying pan, fry the eggplants in oil on both sides. Add a little salt. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees. Grease the baking dish with oil and lay out our vegetables so that you get whole eggplants again. Spread all layers generously with minced vegetables. Place the dish in the oven for 15 minutes.
Here are our Turkish eggplants! The recipe, as you noticed, is not at all complicated. Enjoy your meal!