Imam Bayildi Recipe

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Imam Bayildi Recipe

This is an easy recipe for Imam Bayildi - a Turkish dish, which has for a long time also been part of Greek cuisine. You need to use the long eggplants, not the round ones, and if you can get the striped eggplants, they are even better.

Ingredients

1 kg eggplants (long ones, not round. Preferably the striped variety.)
5 medium onions finely sliced
3 garlic cloves finely chopped
1 kg fresh, ripe tomatoes grated
4 tbsp parsley finely chopped
500ml sunflower oil
1 tsp sugar
Salt and pepper to taste


Preparation

Remove the stems from the eggplants and deeply score each one 3 times lengthwise, spacing the scores equidistantly around the eggplant.

Place the eggplants in salted water with enough water to cover them completely and leave for an hour.

Mix the onions, garlic and parsley in a bowl.

Squeeze the eggplants to drain the water and then spread a tsp of the mixture in each of the scores.

Put the oil in a deep pan to heat and then deep fry the eggplants a few at a time.

Put the fried eggplants in a shallow oven dish.

Mix the tsp sugar with the grated tomatoes and spread over the eggplants.

Add salt and pepper to taste.

Cover with aluminium foil and put in a preheated moderate oven for approx. 30 minutes.

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Eat and Enjoy! 
 

3 comments:

Home Cooked food said...

Lovely dish, looks delicious

Linda said...

It looks really good!

tamboenman said...

Looks delicious... yummy

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