Turkish Stuffed Eggplant Recipe Karniyarik
Turkish Karnıyarık is a classic comfort food made with roasted (or fried) eggplants stuffed with a flavorful ground beef filling and baked in a simple tomato sauce. Perfect served with rice pilav or bulgur pilav and cacık.
INGREDIENTS
For eggplants:
- 5 pieces eggplants
- 5 tablespoons olive oil
Filling:
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- 1 small onion finely chopped
- 3 cloves garlic finely chopped
- 200 g ground beef
- ¼ cup green pepper finely chopped
- ½ cup tomatoes finely chopped
- 1 teaspoon salt
- ½ teaspoon black pepper
- ½ cup parsley finely chopped
Sauce:
- 1½ cups water hot
- 2 tablespoons tomato paste
INSTRUCTIONS
Eggplants:
- Preheat the oven to 200C/400F.
- Peel the eggplants lengthwise, leaving some stripes of the skin. Using a knife, make a slit on each eggplant but don’t cut it all. Don’t remove the stems.
- Place the eggplants on an oven grill or on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper. Brush them with olive oil, about 1 tablespoon olive oil for each. Bake them until tender, for 30 minutes.
Filling:
- Prepare the filling when you put the eggplants in the oven. Heat olive oil in a pan. Cook onions until translucent. Add in garlic and then ground beef. Stir well and press on the ground beef so that there won’t be any blocks left.
- Then cover the pan and let it release its juice first and then absorb most of it.
- Now add in chopped peppers and tomatoes. Season with salt and pepper. Let them cook for 5 minutes over low heat.
- Remove from heat and add in chopped parsley.
Assemble:
- Now remove the eggplants from the oven. Make some space for the filling in each eggplant by pushing the edges of the slit using a spoon. Make a boat shape.
- Stuff the eggplants with the filling and place them in a baking pan.
- Whisk together the tomato paste and water. Pour the sauce over and around the stuffed eggplants.
- Bake for 20 minutes.
- Remove from the oven and garnish with chopped parsley before serving.
NUTRITION
Calories: 280kcalCarbohydrates: 5gProtein: 8gFat: 26gSaturated Fat: 5gPolyunsaturated Fat: 2gMonounsaturated Fat: 17gTrans Fat: 0.4gCholesterol: 27mgSodium: 551mgPotassium: 297mgFiber: 1gSugar: 2gVitamin A: 756IUVitamin C: 19mgCalcium: 29mgIron: 2mg
Nutrition information is automatically calculated, so should only be used as an approximation.
ADDITIONAL INFO
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