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Eggplant kebab

Patlıcanlı kebap is a Turkish dish that contains mainly eggplant and meat. It is generally cooked over a fire but it can be also be prepared in the oven.

Eggplant kebab

Summary⚑

  • 1 hour preparation and 1 h cooking.
  • Needs an oven, but could also be done over a fire.

Ingredients⚑

For 4 large servings use:

  • 500 g of minced meat.
  • 2 or 3 eggplants.
  • 3 or 4 potatoes.
  • 1 or 2 tomatoes.
  • 1 or 2 onions.
  • 1 or 2 peppers (green or red).
  • A head of garlic.
  • Vegetable oil.
  • Salt.
  • Ground black pepper.

For serving:

  • Yogurt (optional).
  • Pita bread.

Cooking steps⚑

  1. Cut the eggplants perpendicularly in slices of around 2 cm.
  2. Put the eggplant slices in cold water with salt for 30 minutes.
  3. Cut the potatoes in slices of 0.5 cm.
  4. Slightly fry or put the potatoes into the oven for a while.
  5. Mix the meat with oil, salt and ground black pepper.
  6. Form balls of the size of a walnut (~30 g each) with the meat.
  7. Drain the eggplant slices.
  8. On a large oven container, cover the bottom with the potatoes and on top of that, alternate eggplant slices and meat balls forming a cylinder.
  9. Put the garlic head, the onions and tomatoes in halves and the peppers into the container.
  10. Put salt and pepper on top of everything.
  11. Cover the container with aluminum foil and start cooking it in the oven at 180º C for 30 minutes.
  12. Uncover the container and keep cooking until the top is roasted.

Afiyet olsun! (enjoy your meal!)

Tips⚑

  • Choose small eggplants that don't have many seeds inside yet.
  • Bake or fry the eggplant slices before putting everything together.
  • You can also put spicy pepper flakes on top.
  • Eat it with bread and yogurt.