Imam bayaldy Turkish eggplant

Turkish national eggplant dish! Bayalda imam is suitable for serving for dinner, lunch, even for breakfast. It is good as an independent dish and as a side dish to meat. With external beauty, it is not difficult to cook it at all!
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Composition / ingredients

Servings:
Translation table of volumetric measures
Nutrients and energy value of the composition of the recipe
By weight of the composition:
Proteins 4 % 1 g
Fats 58 % 14 g
Carbohydrates 38 % 9 g
162 kcal
GI: 67 / 0 / 33

Step-by-step cooking

Cooking time: 1 h 30 min
  1. Step 1:

    Step 1.

    How to cook imam bayaldy? Measure out all the necessary ingredients. Take eggplants strong, without flaws, the same size. The appearance and quality of the whole dish depends on the appearance of eggplants.

  2. Step 2:

    Step 2.

    Wash the eggplants, cut the skin along thin strips in some places. In each eggplant, make a deep longitudinal incision, trying not to damage the walls of the vegetable. Salt the eggplant inside and out. Leave it on for 30 minutes.

  3. Step 3:

    Step 3.

    Prepare the products for the filling. Wash the tomatoes. Peel the onion from the husk and wash it too. Dry the vegetables. Also wash the greens, shake them off, and dry them.

  4. Step 4:

    Step 4.

    Cut onion into strips. Cut the tomatoes into cubes, drain the juice, leaving only the pulp. If desired, you can remove seeds from tomatoes. And also cut off the skin from them, holding them in hot water for a few minutes.

  5. Step 5:

    Step 5.

    Chop garlic, parsley and mint with a knife.

  6. Step 6:

    Step 6.

    Heat vegetable oil in a frying pan and fry eggplants on it from all sides until golden brown.

  7. Step 7:

    Step 7.

    Separately, heat the olive oil in a frying pan, put the onion and sugar and fry until the onion has a caramel color.

  8. Step 8:

    Step 8.

    Add tomatoes, garlic, nutmeg, lemon juice and salt to the onion. Stir and simmer together for 5 minutes. If there is a lot of liquid left, drain it.

  9. Step 9:

    Step 9.

    Add chopped greens to the roast. Mix everything and remove from the heat.

  10. Step 10:

    Step 10.

    Push the edges of the eggplant at the cut point to make a recess.

  11. Step 11:

    Step 11.

    Fill the eggplant with filling. Transfer them carefully to the prepared baking dish. Pour a little water on the bottom of the mold and warm it in a preheated oven for about 10 minutes. The dish is ready! Imam bayaldy is served hot or warm.

A few years ago I cooked eggplant in Rhodes. Imam bayaldy is somewhat similar to the Greek recipe, but they are much fatter because they are fried in a large amount of vegetable oil. Another option for cooking imam bayalda: cut eggplants into circles, fry in oil, spread on a baking sheet, top the filling and bake.

Keep in mind that everyone's ovens are different. The temperature and cooking time may differ from those specified in the recipe. To make any baked dish successful, use useful information about the features of ovens !

So that the mucous membrane of the eyes is not irritated when slicing onions, rinse the onion and knife with cold water. The cutting board will not absorb the unpleasant onion smell if you rub it with a piece of lemon before slicing.

How easy is it to peel tomatoes? Wash them, make criss-cross incisions on top with a sharp knife. Put it in boiling water for 1-2 minutes. Remove, cool slightly and remove the skin.

Caloric content of the products possible in the composition of the dish

  • Onion - 41   kcal/100g
  • Tomatoes - 23   kcal/100g
  • Eggplant - 24   kcal/100g
  • Garlic - 143   kcal/100g
  • Mint fresh - 49   kcal/100g
  • Dried mint - 285   kcal/100g
  • Mint - 49   kcal/100g
  • Parsley greens - 45   kcal/100g
  • Granulated sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Sugar - 398   kcal/100g
  • Salt - 0   kcal/100g
  • Lemon juice - 16   kcal/100g
  • Olive oil - 913   kcal/100g
  • Sunflower oil - 898   kcal/100g
  • Refined sunflower oil - 899   kcal/100g
  • Nutmeg - 556   kcal/100g

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