Persian Cuisine

Kashk-e bademjan

Cuisine: Persian Created by Afsaneh Charani

A fermented by product from cheese-making, kashk has a strong flavour, like a liquid fetta cheese and is used extensively in Persian cuisine, mainly in dips like kashk-e bademjan (grilled eggplant and whey dip).

Ingredients

2 tbsp olive oil
4 eggplants, peeled and thinly sliced
1 onion finely chopped
3 cloves garlic finely chopped
2 tbsp dried mint leaves
2 tbsp kashk
1 heaped tsp turmeric
Salt and pepper to taste
Walnuts chopped (as a garnish)
Parsley chopped (as a garnish)

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Preparation

Add oil to a non-stick pan – let it get really hot and then fry the eggplant. Leave on absorbent kitchen paper to rest.

Fry onion. Once the onion has become translucent add the turmeric. Put to one side.
Fry garlic and put to one side.
Fry dry mint (not straight on the heat) and put to one side.

In a bowl, mash the eggplant by hand (not in a food processor).
Heat a small amount of oil In a saucepan and add mashed eggplant, salt and pepper.
Then add 2 tablespoon of kashk the fried onion, garlic and mint (reserving a small amount of each for garnish). Combine ingredients together to form a smooth consistency.

To Serve:
Spoon into a shallow dish and on the top add a little more kashk, a bit more fried onion, garlic and mint. Finally sprinkle with chopped walnuts and parsley.

31 May 2011 05:27 AEST

shohreh

shelley

fine tunes

Hi, I'm iranian and I cansay this recipe is closest to authentic one, however as I learned from my mom she always cook eggplants with kashk and fried onion and walnut and fried mint for about half an 45 min ( with a little water) then mashes it and use the rest of fried onion ,mintand kashk for garnish. In this way u dont need to fry eggplants completely , u just need them to become a little brown so it is healthier. By cooking it u also give time to kashk to be absorbed by eggplants.

10 Sep 2010 02:50 AEST

Milad

zzz

download

Hello there I'm an Iranian English student it's good to watch movie like this if it's possible create a link to download your FOOD SAFARI .(please) :)

20 Aug 2010 08:12 AEST

maryam

. . .

wow! I love it . . . It is great!

12 Jul 2010 09:58 AEST

momy

dear

fantastic

i love it

06 Nov 2009 07:34 AEST

Sue

Auckland CBD

Yum food

Please explain Kahsk, very fancy about the persian food, so can't let go. Is there good Persian grocery store in Central or any part of Auckland, videos upload would be gr8 Thanks

24 Oct 2009 04:50 AEST

Bijan

Caulfild Vic

Cruelty

Bringing us to the water and not letting us to drink !? We would expect more respect to this water mouthing and traditional dish.

10 Jan 2009 03:57 AEST

yashar

bondi junction

clip

put the movie for kashk bamjann

08 Jan 2009 11:16 AEST

fezzel

wooloomooloo

guys where the clip for this then ,i wanna see the clip of kaksh bamjan too plz upload it

07 Jan 2009 08:13 AEST

yassamin

rydelmer

movie

where is the vedio then for this?

07 Jan 2009 08:10 AEST

nazi

burwood

clip

can u launch the movie of that please ,i have no idea how that been made ,if i can see the clip it would be briliient,tnx

07 Jan 2009 08:07 AEST

massoud

parramatta

where is the vedieo

can you please put the vedio on for us to see the show for kashk va bademjon? we don know how it made?

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