Dried Eggplant Dolma (Kuru Patlıcan Dolması)

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I accept been receiving complaints from readers, friends, as well as friends of friends close lack of novel recipes on the blog. I know; it's been a while. I've been busy as well as lazy at the same time. But hither nosotros go.

Dried eggplant dolma is a pop wintertime dish mainly inward the southeastern business office of Turkey. Reasonable size eggplant are cutting inward half, carved, lay on strings, as well as dried out inward the Sun to cherish eggplant deliciousness inward the winter. You tin discovery strings of dried eggplants easily at Turkish or Middle Eastern markets. The publish of dried eggplants on a string vary betwixt 30-40. Why am I cooking dried eggplants when nosotros tin discovery tasty fresh ones? We're moving across the the world as well as I am cooking our pantry 1 exceptional at a time!

1 string of dried eggplants ( 30)

for the stuffing
1 lb the world beef
two medium onions, finely chopped
half dozen cloves of garlic, minced
three tbsp Lycopersicon esculentum paste
1 tbsp spicy pepper glue (it's ok non to role it if you lot cannot discovery it)
1 medium tomato, grated or 1/2 loving cup Lycopersicon esculentum sauce
1 loving cup white rice
1/2 loving cup bulgur (if not, substitute alongside rice)
juice of 1 lemon (In the southeast, inward stead of lemon they role a thick sour sauce made from plums, similar to pomegranate sauce) 
1 tbsp dry out sumac (obviously sourness is a must alongside this dish)
1 tsp dark pepper (or more--I unremarkably teach upwardly to 1 tbsp)
1 tbsp dry out mint flakes
1 tsp cumin

1/4 loving cup water
two tbsp olive oil
salt

for the sauce
3-4 tbsp butter
three tomatoes, grated or 1 tin of petite diced tomato
hot water

-Boil a big pot of H2O as well as add together dried eggplants. Cook for xx minutes or until they soften plenty that a fork tin teach through easily. Rinse inward mutual depression temperature H2O as well as educate aside.
-Mix all the stuffing ingredients well.
-With the help of your hands or a modest spoon, materials eggplants. Do non materials all the way; exit room on top to flexure the top. This agency you lot volition secure overflowing. (Look at the commencement picture; produce non materials your dolmas similar the 1 on the left. The 1 on the correct is the practiced model!)
-Place dolmas following inward a broad pot.
-Pour grated tomatoes as well as sprinkle butter pieces. Add hot H2O to encompass dolmas. On top of the pot, house a flat-ish plate upside down. It volition concur dolmas downwardly when you're cooking them.
-Bring to a boil. Cover as well as plough downwardly to depression for 30-35 minutes or until rice is cooked.
-Let it sit down inward the pot for five minutes as well as serve alongside crusty bread.
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