Etsiz Patlıcan Yemeği ( meatless eggplant )

Good day everyone!! To my recent visitors from Adana, HOŞ GELDINIZ....

Welcome to Turgutreis, Bodrum, Mugla... Hope your stay with us will be enjoyable!!! We are still expecting some other guests on next week...Anyway, here's one turkish food that Ayşe Hala has made for us..Ayşe Hala is the sister of my father-inlaw..

PATLİCAN YEMEĞI

The easiest way of cooking this vegetable, served with fresh green peppers, cacik, and bulgur rice. In this recipe

Ingredients:

1 kg.Eggplants ( any kind of eggplant will do)

 2 medium onions

5 Tomatoes

4 Green peppers

1 head garlic

1 tsp.Tomato paste

1 tsp.Red pepper paste

Salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes to taste

olive oil

1 tbsp. margarine

Methods:

Step 1. In a clean bowl, wash and cut the eggplants into cubes. Soak cubed eggplants in water with salt, to remove the bitterness of eggplants and to prevent discoloration.

This is how Turkish women actually make their foods..without using any chopping board at all..

Step 2. In a clean casserole, chop onions, then green peppers.

This is Ayşe halam....

Step 3.  Add in  garlic cloves....

Step 4. Peel the tomatoes.

Step 5. Chop tomatoes.

Step 6. Add in seasonings.. salt, black pepper, red pepper flakes, tomato paste and red pepper paste.

Step 7.  Mix all the vegetables with the seasonings and pastes.

Step 8. Drain the soaked eggplants and add in to the rest of the mixed vegetables..

Step 9. Due to my casserole was not so wide to mix all the vegetables, so we used available big wide pan to mix all the vegetables.

Step 10.  Put back the mixed vegetables now to the casserole, and try to compress them all..

Ready for cooking now...add in the margarine and cover..turn on high heat first and wait for the vegetables to boil then lower down the heat and simmer till eggplants are soft and cook...best serve with cacik, bulgur rice and fresh green peppers.... Enjoy!! :)