Turkish Baked Eggplant with Mint

This eggplant dish is one of the most famous dishes of turkish cuisine, most likely because of the legends that surround its name. In fact, it’s so famous that it has crossed borders into iran, Bulgaria, Albania, and greece. It is known everywhere by its turkish name, imam bayaldi, meaning “the imam fainted.” folktales vary as to why the imam fainted. One theory is that he was appalled by the extravagant use of olive oil. Another tells of a newlywed imam who fainted when he was infor