#eggplant
2 viral recipes tagged #eggplant.
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Badrijani — gulungan terong isi kenari khas Georgia
A jewel of the Georgian supra (feast table): slices of fried eggplant rolled around a vivid, garlicky walnut paste seasoned with the country's signature spices — blue fenugreek, marigold, coriander — and finished with ruby pomegranate seeds. Badrijani nigvzit is rich, savoury and a little tangy, eaten cool as an appetiser. The walnut filling, smooth and intensely flavoured, is the heart of so much Georgian cooking, and here it's at its most elegant.
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İmam Bayıldı — terong isi minyak zaitun khas Turki
A jewel of Turkish olive-oil cookery (zeytinyağlı): whole eggplants gently fried, then split and stuffed with a sweet, slow-cooked filling of masses of onion, garlic and tomato, and braised in olive oil until meltingly soft. Served cold or at room temperature, never hot, İmam Bayıldı — 'the imam fainted' — is silky, rich and entirely vegan. The name nods to a legend that the dish was so delicious (or so extravagant with olive oil) that the imam swooned. It's a make-ahead classic that only improves overnight.