🇹🇷 How to Make Karnıyarık

Craving Karnıyarık? On FoodNeverComes the food never actually comes — so here's how to make real Karnıyarık at home, in about 1 hr, with stuff you probably already have.

🛒 Ingredients

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• 4 small aubergines
• 300g lamb mince
• 1 onion, chopped
• 2 tomatoes, chopped, plus 4 slices for the top
• 2 green peppers, sliced
• 2 tbsp tomato paste
• oil for frying

👩‍🍳 Method

1. Peel the aubergines in stripes, leaving alternating bands of skin, and fry them whole in oil until soft and collapsed. Drain on paper.
2. Fry the onion, add the mince and brown it, then the chopped tomatoes and 1 tbsp of the paste. Cook until dry.
3. Slit each aubergine lengthways without cutting through, and press the middle open into a boat.
4. Stuff generously with the mince, then lay a tomato slice and a strip of pepper on each.
5. Sit them in a dish, add the remaining paste whisked into 150ml hot water around them.
6. Bake at 190°C for 30 min. Karnıyarık means 'split belly', which is exactly what it looks like.