Hey everyone, I hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, eggplant and yogurt salad. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I will make it a little bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Eggplant and yogurt salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods on earth. It’s appreciated by millions daily. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. Eggplant and yogurt salad is something which I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
This tart Turkish-style salad is meant to be served with triangles of warm pita or other flatbread for dipping. Warm Lentil Salad with Eggs- Healthy Appetite with Shira Bocar. This Mediterranean grilled eggplant salad with yogurt immediately caught our eye.
To begin with this recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have eggplant and yogurt salad using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant and yogurt salad:
- Take 500 g eggplants, preferably big and round eggplant
- Make ready 2 cups yogurt
- Take 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Prepare 1 teaspoon salt
- Prepare 1 teaspoon dried mint, finely ground
- Make ready 5/16 cup Vegetable oil for frying
The smokiness of the eggplant balances well with the peanut oil in this salad. Use for dipping with toasted pita and vegetables, or spread it on a sandwich. Fold in the cilantro and half of the cumin. When cool, add it to the yogurt mixture and stir to combine.
Instructions to make Eggplant and yogurt salad:
- Wash and peel the eggplants and cut into relatively thick slices, widthwise.
- Fry the eggplant slices in vegetable oil until they become light brown in color; making sure not to burn them. Drain on a kitchen absorbent paper.
- Mix the yogurt, garlic and salt in a bowl.
- In a serving plate, pour half the quantity of the yogurt mixture, lay the eggplant slices on the yogurt, then add the remaining yogurt over the eggplants.
- Sprinkle with dried mint and serve cold.
Serve sprinkled with the remaining cumin. I cook with it often, as my ever eggplant craving palate tends to throw frequent fits demanding something made with the vegetable. I had another one of such fits yesterday and to suppress it, I set out to make my favorite eggplant salad with yogurt and mint. Turkish eggplant with yogurt is one of the most popular meze. Thick Greek yogurt is a very common ingredient in Turkish cuisine and is often mixed with lemon juice, garlic, pepper and salt.
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