Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to prepare a special dish, eggplant and yogurt salad. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.
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.
Eggplant and yogurt salad is one of the most well liked of recent trending foods in the world. It is simple, it is quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. Eggplant and yogurt salad is something which I have loved my whole life. They’re fine and they look fantastic.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have eggplant and yogurt salad using 6 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Eggplant and yogurt salad:
- Prepare 500 g eggplants, preferably big and round eggplant
- Take 2 cups yogurt
- Prepare 2 cloves garlic, crushed
- Make ready 1 teaspoon salt
- Get 1 teaspoon dried mint, finely ground
- Prepare 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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