Name: Aubergine Imam Bayildi
Yield: Serves Six
Cuisine: Turkey
Ingredients: Greek yoghurt, to serve; 4 ripe tomatoes, chopped, or 400g (14oz) can chopped tomatoes; 100ml (3½fl oz) olive oil, plus extra for sprinkling; 6 medium aubergines; 6 garlic cloves, peeled and finely chopped; 1 large onion, peeled and finely chopped; 1 teaspoon golden caster sugar; salt and black pepper; ½ bunch of flat-leaf parsley, chopped, plus a few extra sprigs to garnish

Preparation info

Serves
Six

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A Long and Messy Business

By Rowley Leigh

Published 2018

About

I make a very simple, unspiced tomato sauce for this recipe: some cooks prefer to add cumin and coriander. A good deal of olive oil is required for the initial frying of the aubergines: it has been suggested the Imam fainted when he saw the olive oil bill, rather than upon tasting the dish.

Ingredients

6 medium aubergines
100ml (3½fl oz) olive oil, plus extra for sprinkling

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C (350°F, Gas Mark 4).

Peel alternate strips off the aubergines lengthways. Halve or even quarter the aubergines, depending on size, then make incisions into each piece of aubergine without cutting right through: make one incision per quarter, two or thr

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