This is another Turkish recipe that I fell in love with this summer during my holiday in Turkey.
Why it won't make you put on weight? Because you will have by itself or with chicken. No potatoes, no rice, no other stuff.
Let me talk to you about this eggplant first. Normally eggplants are not sour when raw, but when they get old or if they come from certain countries, they are. So cook your eggplant as you normaly do.
Yogurt and Eggplant Salad
2 eggplants
1-2 cups sour jogurt
1/2 lime juice (if needed)
2-3 green Charleston peppers
extra virgin olive oil
garlic (if you like) - chopped
salt
grounded red hot pepper on top
grounded white pepper
1. Cut the eggplants, without peeling, into cubes. 2. On small fire, fry the cubes into a pan with 2-3 spoons of olive oil (or more if needed). Mix now and then to make sure all the eggplant cubes get the same treatment. 3. Taste to check if the eggplant is soft; if not soft, cook more. 4. Add salt and white pepper. Mix. 5. Remove from pan into a serving dish. 6. Separatelty mix the yogurt with the lime juice (and the chopped garlic, if you chose to add it). 7. Pour the yogurt mixture on top of the eggplant. Add red hot pepper and 1-2 spoons olive oil. 8. In the pot, fry the Charleston pepper (or use a grill) then add it on top of the dish. 9. Cover, refrigerate, and serve cold.
Turkish recipes are delicious, like any other Middle Eastern dishes.
Yesterday I missed the Yogurt Soup (Yayla Corbasi) I used to have there, so I prepared it. This soup is an instant hit with any foreigner! It's tasty and refreshing.
Yayla Corbasi
8 1/2 cups beef stock (or 8 1/2 glasses of water and the required amount of beef stock concentrate - cubes) - where 8 1/2 glasses equal about 2 liters 1/2 glass rice 1 egg 1 spoon all-purpose flour 2 cups yogurt 2 spoons olive oil 2 small spoons dried minced peppermint red hot pepper (paprika) and salt
1. Wash the rice in lots of water, ten times if necessary, to remove all starch. 2. In a pot add stock and rice and bring to boil on medium fire. Cover if necessary. It takes about 20 minutes for the rice to cook, but make sure your rice is very well cooked. 3. Separately beat the egg and add flour. Make sure you blend your flour properly or else those flour balls will turn your soup into a big failure. Add 1/2 cup water and the yogurt. 4. Add to the boiling mixture, reduce fire to minimum, and continue cooking and mixing. Add salt if necessary. 5. When the mixture is ready to boil, take away from stove. 6. Separately fry some hot pepper in olive oil. Mix it with the soup. 7. Serve soup with peppermint on top.
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