Ali Nazik
2 medium eggplants or roasted eggplant in a jar
1 large cubanelle pepper or regular green pepper
150 gr medium or regular ground beef, cooked with salt and pepper
1/2 cup yogurt with salt and smashed garlic, at room temperate
Garnish:
1 tbsp butter
1 tsp red pepper, powdered
1/2 tsp Cayenne pepper, powdered
Set the oven to broil (grill), and heat it up. Make holes in the eggplants with a fork so that it will roast better. Place the eggplants and green pepper on an oven tray and place in the oven. Roast the green pepper for about 15 minutes and the eggplant for about 35-40 minutes. Turn them over occasionally during roasting.
Peel off the skins from both the eggplant and green pepper (discard seeds), and cut in small pieces. Put them in a pyrex dish (I used 10 inch / 25 cm round pyrex). Put back in the warm oven. Note that at this point the oven's turned off, and you just want to keep the food warm.
Also if you used roasted eggplant in a jar, you should just roast the green pepper.
When the rest of the ingredients are prepared, take the pyrex out of the oven and pour the yogurt on top. Then put the cooked ground beef on top of the yogurt.
Lastly, melt the butter in a small pan and add the peppers. When it starts bubbling, pour over the ground beef.
Serve Ali Nazik immediately while still warm.
Ali Nazik originates from the Gaziantep Region of Turkey.
4 Comments:
How are you supposed to cook the beef?
Yum! This was great... just made it for my persian girlfriend and her family, and it was a hit. I used a higher ratio of peppers to eggplant, and i also added some spices and tomato paste to the beef.
My only question is whether the eggplant/peppers are supposed to be kind of watery... do you do anything to dry them out a bit, if theyre too moist?
Anyway, your recipe was great ... im looking forward to trying some more.. Tesekkur ederim! ; )
Hi Jordan,
I'm glad you guys liked it:) I would suggest that before cutting up the eggplant and the pepper (after peeling)put them in the strainer to drain the extra water.
Sevgilerimle:)
To Anonymous,
Put the ground beef, salt and pepper in a pot and cook over medium heat. While it's cooking, stir and break the large pieces with a wooden spoon. Cook until all the water evaporates.
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