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Roasted White Eggplant/Beyaz Patlıcan, Sliced, Stuffed with Cheese, Tomato & Fresh Herbs!

12th August 2014 By Claudia Turgut Leave a Comment

I was at the mini pazar in Ayvacık last week when I spied these:

White aubergines

white eggplants/aubergines

I don’t know about you but I have never seen white eggplants before – have you?  Big and bulbous, the veritable Moby Dicks of the patlıcan family!

purple aubergines

Purple I know…

Stripy aubergines

Stripy too ….

But these?

I looked at them curiously and the stallholder, a woman I vaguely know from previous market forays, said ‘Do you know what to do with them?’

No, I said.

And here is what she told me, kindly slicing a normal purple eggplant to illustrate what she was describing.

Cut finely from one end towards the stem end without cutting all the way through; then slice through again below that cut. This time, cut through so you have what looks like a sort of folder, a sandwich idea but joined at one end.

In it, she said, put cheese, parsley and mint, brush with olive oil and bake in the oven. This sounded enticing so I bought two to experiment with.

The next day, I cut through my two white eggplants so I had 8 pockets. I brushed inside each with olive oil and seasoned well. Then I  put a slice of cheddar cheese, some fresh parsley, dried mint – I didn’t have fresh – and dried thyme in each. I thought a dab of colour would be appetising so added a slice of bright red tomato. I closed each pocket as much as I could, brushed the outside with olive oil and put them in an oiled pyrex dish in a preheated oven (180C/350F).

I think they took 40  minutes – they didn’t need any further attention, just a little look to see how they were progressing.

Stuffed aubergine

This is how they looked out of the oven stuffed with cheese, tomato and fresh herbs

We had our friends from the UK with us so this was lunch: I would definitely do this again as they were extremely tasty, just as you would imagine!

Next time however, I’ll add some garlic – can’t think how I overlooked it!

So this is yet another way with eggplant. Or aubergine. Or whatever you want to call it. Try it and see how you get on.

Afiyet olsun!
Roasted eggplant

Roasted eggplant sliced, stuffed with cheese, tomato & fresh herbs

PS as far as I can see, whatever the colour, they all taste the same!

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