Turkish Kebab Recipe – Eggplant Puree with Ground Beef

Here is another verey famous Turkish Kebab Recipe! It is grilled eggplant puree with yogurt, served Turkish style with a delicious ground beef kebab. Also called Ali Nazik Kebab Recipe! It is very popular in Turkey and very similar to Hünkar Beğendi Kebab, which is also made with grilled eggplants. Since the eggplants are grilled, this is a very healthy recipe as well! Don’t forget to let eggplants stay in salty water after you grill them, that helps a lot to remove the bitter taste off the eggplants. Wash and dry eggplant. Pierce it a few times with a fork to vent. Grill them until very soft Wait a few minutes to cool down and discard the charred skin Prepare a big bowl of water mixed with salt and lemon juice Keep the peeled eggplants in this water, to avoid the bitter taste Let the eggplant sit in water for 30 minutes and drain the water Would be much better if you don’t spill water all around the counter =)) Mince the eggplants Cook the gound meat in a large pot Put the pan lid on and let it cook until the juice come out It’s still red! It should look like this! Add the minced onions Cook for another 10 minutes Add diced tomatoes and italian peppers And cook 5 miore minutes! Now you can add tomato paste, black pepper, red pepper and salt! Cook for 5 minutes more without the lid Warm up the eggplants on a large pan Mix the yogurt, garlic and salt in a large bowl Mix with the eggplants you warmed up
Here is the list of ingredients for the Turkish Ali Nazik Kebab Recipe:
6 eggplants
400 g (1 lbs) ground beef
1 peeled and diced tomato
1 minced onion
2 itlaian peppers
4 tbs vegetable oil
1 cup drained yogurt
2 tsp salt
A pinch of black pepper
3 cloves of garlic
2 tsp of red pepper flakes
And as an extre you will need 4 or 5 cups of water and 1 tbs of salt and juice of a lemon to keep the grilled eggplants in it, to avoid the bitterness of the eggplant.
Bon Appetit!