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Mirza Ghasemi, smocked eggplants with garlic and tomatoes

This dish is usually served as an appetizer. It’s vegetarian and made of a few ingredients. The main ingredient is long type of eggplants/aubergine which called Japanese variety. But as long as you’ve got eggplants I guess all varieties are ok. The bigger they are, the less work you’ll have! 😉

Mirza Ghasemi is a typical dish of north Iran. It’s eaten either with bread or rice.

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Ingredients | 2-3 servings

  • 5 long Eggplants
  • 5 medium Tomatoes
  • 2 cloves of Garlic
  • 1 teaspoon Turmeric
  • 3-4 Clarified Butter
  • 3 Eggs

Preparation

– Put the eggplants on grilling pan burn their skin.

– Place them in the oven and cook ⏳ 40 mins on 200C°/390F°.

mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants and garlic

– While they are warm, cover them with a foil, wait for 1 hour, so they gain the smoky flavor of burned skin.

Peel and then mash the eggplants.

Preparing tomatoes

– Put them in boiling water for ⏳1 minute then remove them in a bowl with ice-cold water.

mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants Stew

– This thermic shock will help us to Peel them.

Remove also the seeds, they can cause allergic reactions in some people.

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– Cut them into small pieces

Cooking Mirza Ghasemi

– In a pan grate garlic, add turmeric, stir fry for some seconds.

➡️ At first the aroma of garlic may seems to be very intense, but in the end it will taste much milder.

– Add tomatoes, salt & black pepper, continue to cook and stir to have a dense red sauce.

mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants and garlic

– Add the mashed eggplants.

mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants and garlic

Stir fry all together for other 20 mins taste the seasoning it should be slightly salty.

– Add the eggs, cook halfway, then start to stir. You should feel the egg pieces in your mouth.

mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants and garlic

The Mirza Ghasemi is ready!

Notes

  • It is served with bread or simple white rice.
  • As the accompaniments, they are served with fresh herbs (سبزی خوردن), pickled garlic (سیر ترشی), and parvardeh olives which are with walnut & pomegranate paste (زیتون پرورده)

mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants and garlic
mirza ghasemi - mashed & smocked Eggplants and garlic

Noosh-e-jan ☺️

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Bahareh

Welcome to Foodcraftz! I'm Bahareh, a cook who started this food blog as a side project. Hope you find the recipes interesting I try to add more every month. Thanks for visiting!

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