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なすのひく肉詰めもの
トルコ語  Karnıyarık    英語  Stuffed Eggplant

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Karniyarik is the most delicious Turkish Eggplant dish

In my opinion, Karniyarik is the most delicious Eggplant dish of the Turkish cuisine. Turkish cuisine is divided into hot and cold dishes, and on the hot side, this is the best eggplant dish. The eggplant and the mince meat both are treated with the best methods to give them their best tastes. The mince meat in Karniyarik is cooked so delicious that you can eat it by itself with bread or rice.

Parsley is a must

As you can see, there is some parsley in the stuffing. Even though it seems like a little bit only, is a must. The taste difference is big. In Japan, they call our parsley as Italian parsley. You can use that. But Japanese parsley is also ok.

A note on frying

The oil used for frying the eggplants should be really hot. Otherwise they can absorb some oil and so they may taste slightly oily.

With bread or rice

I strongly suggest that you eat Karniyarik with rice or best quality bread. In Turkey we almost always eat either bread or plain white pilaf with Karniyarik. Bread for Turkey is what rice is for Japan. But that is Turkish bread, and is a different story. For example we like to eat bread in a few hours after it was baked, if we can in half an hour. You can say 70million people in Turkey eat one bread everyday, and all those breads are always the same because they found the right way to bake it and everybody wants it that way.