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Name: Patlıcan Salatası
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 15 min
Total time: 25 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: Turkish
Ingredients: 2 eggplant, unpeeled (approx - lb) Eggplant, raw; 1 cup Yogurt, NFS; 3 cloves Garlic, raw; 0.5 fruit Lemon, raw; 2 tablespoon Olive oil; 0.25 cup Parsley, raw; 1 tsp Salt, table; 0.25 g Spices, pepper, red or cayenne

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Patlıcan Salatası

This is the dish I make first when the coals are hot and the evening is just beginning — the eggplant goes straight into the flame, black and blistered, and what comes out of that char is something smoky and cool and a little wild at the same time. It is meyhane food in its soul: honest, bright with lemon, sharp with raw garlic, meant to be pushed around a plate with bread while the raki is still cold. I have made this a thousand times and I still lean over the bowl to smell it when the yogurt meets the warm flesh. #turkish #eggplant #meze #vegetarian #grilled #meyhane

25 min total Prep 10 Cook 15 4 servings

Recipe by

Nikos Galerakis

203 kcal

Energy

7 g

Protein

26 g

Carbs

9 g

Fat

Per serving.

Nutrient profile

Claims & reference intakes

per serving · % of adult NRV

15% — source of 30% — high in

Folate (Vitamin B9)

High · 108%

Vitamin K

High · 98%

Potassium

High · 40%

Manganese

High · 38%

Copper

Source · 26%

Vitamin B6

Source · 25%

Nutrients computed from matched USDA ingredients; claims assessed against EU Reg. 1169/2011 & 1924/2006 (≥15% NRV “source of”, ≥30% “high in”, per serving).

Ingredients

For 4 servings

2.0 eggplant, unpeeled (approx - lb) Eggplant, raw

1.0 cup Yogurt, NFS

3.0 cloves Garlic, raw

0.5 fruit Lemon, raw

2.0 tablespoon Olive oil

0.25 cup Parsley, raw

1.0 tsp Salt, table

0.25 g Spices, pepper, red or cayenne

Method

4 steps

Your eggplant needs fire — gas flame, grill grate, screaming hot broiler, all of these work. Set it directly on the heat and let it burn, turning every few minutes, until the skin is truly black and blistered on every side and the kitchen smells like a wood fire. Twelve to fifteen minutes. You will know it is ready when a knife slides through with no resistance at all, like cutting through butter. If all you have is a cast-iron skillet, get it ripping hot and turn the eggplant often — it will get there.

Pull the eggplants onto a board and give them two or three minutes, just enough so you can handle them without burning your fingers. Slit the skin open and scoop the pale, creamy flesh into a bowl, leaving every bit of blackened skin behind. Do not rinse it — not for a second — or you will wash that smoke right down the drain, and the smoke is the whole point.

While the flesh is still warm and steaming, spoon in the yogurt and crush the raw garlic straight into the bowl — no cooking, no roasting, raw garlic is the move here and there is no substitute. Fold it together gently with a spoon, keeping the eggplant in soft loose pieces, not a paste, never a paste. Season with salt and a pinch of red pepper, then squeeze in lemon — about half a lemon for four people — and taste it. You want it bright and a little sharp, alive on the tongue.

Pour it into a shallow bowl, not piled high but spread out so there is surface to dress. Drizzle a thin ribbon of good olive oil across the top — this is not decoration, it is flavor — and scatter torn parsley leaves generously over everything. Taste one more time for salt and lemon. Then let it sit for five minutes before it goes to the table. It gets better as it cools and the flavors find each other.

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Nutrition Facts

Energy

812.8 kilocalorie

Protein

29.7 gram

Total Fat

37.4 gram

Monounsaturated Fat

21.0 gram

Palmitoleic acid (C16:1, Omega-7)

0.4 gram

Oleic acid (C18:1, Omega-9)

20.4 gram

Gondoic acid (C20:1, Omega-9)

0.1 gram

Erucic acid (C22:1, Omega-9)

0.0 gram

Polyunsaturated Fat

4.3 gram

Linoleic acid (C18:2, Omega-6)

3.5 gram

Alpha-Linolenic acid (ALA) (C18:3, Omega-3)

0.4 gram

Stearidonic acid (SDA) (C18:4, Omega-3)

0.0 gram

Arachidonic acid (ARA) (C20:4, Omega-6)

0.0 gram

Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) (C20:5, Omega-3)

0.0 gram

Docosapentaenoic acid (DPA) (C22:5, Omega-3)

0.0 gram

Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) (C22:6, Omega-3)

0.0 gram

Pufa 2:5 N-3 (epa)

0.0 gram

Saturated Fat

8.8 gram

Capric acid (C10:0)

0.4 gram

Lauric acid (C12:0)

0.2 gram

Myristic acid (C14:0)

0.7 gram

Palmitic acid (C16:0)

5.5 gram

Stearic acid (C18:0)

1.4 gram

Butyric acid (C4:0)

0.0 gram

Caproic acid (C6:0)

0.1 gram

Caprylic acid (C8:0)

0.1 gram

Trans Fat

0.0 gram

Carbohydrates

102.6 gram

Complex Carbohydrates

35.2 g

Dietary Fiber

35.2 gram

Total Sugars

59.7 gram

Disaccharides

2.8 g

Sucrose

2.8 gram

Monosaccharides

34.2 g

Fructose

16.9 gram

Glucose

17.3 gram

Vitamins

3041.5 mg

Carotene, Alpha

0.3 microgram

Carotene, Beta

1014.0 microgram

Choline

122.0 milligram

Folate (Vitamin B9)

865.1 microgram

Retinol

61.3 microgram

Vitamin A

586.8 microgram

Vitamin B1 (Thiamin)

0.6 milligram

Vitamin B12

1.5 microgram

Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin)

1.0 milligram

Vitamin B3 (Niacin)

8.0 milligram

Vitamin B5 (Pantothenic Acid)

3.2 milligram

Vitamin B6

1.4 milligram

Vitamin C

72.5 milligram

Vitamin D

1.5 International Unit

Vitamin E

9.5 milligram

Vitamin K

292.7 microgram

Vitamins And Other Components

0.0 gram

Minerals

7057.5 mg

Calcium

512.2 milligram

Copper

1.1 milligram

Iron

4.5 milligram

Magnesium

202.9 milligram

Manganese

3.0 milligram

Phosphorus

628.3 milligram

Potassium

3194.4 milligram

Selenium

23.0 microgram

Sodium

2484.3 milligram

Zinc

3.8 milligram

ALA (Alpha-Linolenic Acid, Omega-3)

1.1 gram

Alcohol, Ethyl

0.0 gram

Amino Acids

0.0 gram

Arginine

0.8 gram

Ash

13.7 gram

Aspartic Acid

1.9 gram

Caffeine

0.0 milligram

Cholesterol

27.0 milligram

Cryptoxanthin, Beta

34.6 microgram

Cystine

0.1 gram

Fluoride, F

0.1 microgram

Folic Acid

0.0 microgram

Glutamic Acid

2.3 gram

Glycine

0.5 gram

Histidine

0.3 gram

Isoleucine

0.6 gram

Leucine

0.8 gram

Lipids

0.0 gram

Lutein + Zeaxanthin

1295.7 microgram

Lycopene

0.0 microgram

Lysine

0.6 gram

Methionine

0.1 gram

Phytosterols

77.1 milligram

Proline

0.5 gram

Proximates

0.0 gram

Serine

0.5 gram

Theobromine

0.0 milligram

Threonine

0.4 gram

Tryptophan

0.1 gram

Tyrosine

0.3 gram

Valine

0.7 gram

Water

1264.1 gram

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