Khoresh bademjan is served with white rice (Kateh style or Traditional style). The rice is cooked alongside the stew.

A popular variant of this recipe called: Gheimeh bademjian which is with the split chickpeas . It gives a richer structure to the stew, I put that optional because it’s not the main ingredient.

Ingredients | 4 servings

• 2 kilos/4.4oz Eggplants
• 400g/14oz Lamb or Veal
• 2 Onions
• 2-3 limu amani or 2tbsp ghooreh or half cup of lemon juice
• 1 teaspoon Turmeric
• 2tbsp Tomato paste
• 4 big Fresh Tomatoes
• Clarified butter
• Salt and Black pepper
• 2-3 tbsp Split Chickpeas (optional)

Preparation

– Peel the eggplants and cut them in half.

– Add a generous amount of salt and leave them in a sieve for ⏳ 2 hours so they lose water.

Then you can cook the eggplants either:

• Frying (Traditional way): the eggplant in a big pan.
• In the Oven (None traditional): Coat them with oil and put them in the oven for ⏳ 1 hour at 180C°/350F°.

– In both cases: The eggplant cooks and gain a dark brown color.

Cooking the meat

– In a pot place the meat and add one onion, turmeric, 2 cups of water, salt, and pepper.

– Cook for⏳ 2 hours.

No need to chop the meat in smaller size, because in the end, it will be so tender that it divides with a spoon.

➡️ Meanwhile cook the rice so it will be ready when the stew is cooked.

➡️Prepare the sour ingredient: Place the limoo amani in a glass and pour hot boiling water on it after 1 hour they become soft. Create wholes on its skin and add them later to the final pot. If you have ghooreh (sour grapes) or you have lemon juice, you can add it directly to the final pot.

The final pot

– In a big pot, stir fry chopped onion.

– When it turns golden brown add turmeric, salt, pepper, tomatoes paste, and 2 fresh tomatoes cut in half. Stir fry for some minutes.

– Add the cooked meat & its juice (remove the onion, it helps to absorb the smell of the meat).

– Add the split chickpeas (optional).

– On top of them place fried eggplants so they soak in the meats juice.

– On the eggplants goes: the other pieces of fresh tomatoes.

– On low heat, Cook for at least ⏳ 1 hour without stirring!

Be careful with the shape of eggplants: This is challenging, especially when you want to adjust the salt but if you stir gently without mashing the eggplants it will be ok.

The main characteristic of the Khoresh Bademjan stew, visually is, the form and shape of eggplants. They should be maintained intact until you serve them. This is how you show your guest a flawless eggplant stew! This will be very challenging because they become very soft at the end of cooking.

When the stew is dense, and the flavors are well combined, the eggplant stew is ready!

Serve the stew with rice.

Notes

• To cook the meat, if you use a pressure cooker the cooking process will be much quicker.
• This dish is usually served with raw onions (not very socially accepted), fresh herbs, pickles, plain yogurt, and salad. The usual Persian mazzes مزه / چاشنی on the table

Noosh-e-jan ☺️ (in persian: Buon appetite)

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

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°.

– 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.

– This thermic shock will help us to Peel them.

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

– 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.

– Add the mashed eggplants.

– 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.

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)

Noosh-e-jan ☺️

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