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Grilled eggplant and cheese dip recipe (kashk-e bademjan)

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  • Cuisine: Persian
  • Prep Time: 15 min(s)
  • Cook Time: 15 min(s)

In Persian households this is made every morning ready for lunch – the sound of the chopping of walnuts and parsley for the topping echoes throughout Persian neighbourhoods. The salty kashk cheese is a fermented by-product from cheese making and is available from Middle Eastern grocery stores. With its strong flavour it resembles a liquid fetta cheese and is lovely mixed with the golden eggplant and dried mint.

Ingredients

olive oil
4 eggplants, peeled and finely sliced
1 onion, finely chopped
1 heaped tsp turmeric
3 ~garlic cloves, finely chopped
2 tbsp dried mint
2 tbsp kashk
salt and pepper
chopped walnuts
chopped flat-leaf parsley

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Preparation

Level of difficulty: easy

Heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a non-stick frying pan until really hot, then fry the eggplant until soft and golden. Drain on paper towel. Add the onion with a little more oil to the pan and fry until translucent, then stir in the turmeric. Push the onion to one side and add the garlic. Fry until fragrant then push to another side of the pan. Remove the pan from the heat, add the mint and fry briefly in the remaining heat.

Put the eggplant in a bowl and mash.

Heat a little more oil in a saucepan and add the eggplant, kashk, most of the onion, garlic and mint (reserve some of each for garnish), and salt and pepper. Warm the ingredients through and combine. Spoon into a serving bowl and top with the remaining onion, garlic and mint. Sprinkle with walnuts and parsley and serve warm.

Makes 3–4 cups

SBS cook’s notes
Oven temperatures are for conventional; if using fan-forced (convection), reduce the temperature by 20˚C. | We use Australian tablespoons and cups: 1 teaspoon equals 5 ml; 1 tablespoon equals 20 ml; 1 cup equals 250 ml. | All herbs are fresh (unless specified) and cups are lightly packed. | All vegetables are medium size and peeled, unless specified. | All eggs are 55–60 g, unless specified.

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Comments (12)

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10 Apr 2013 05:20 AEST
Sohila Zanjani
Mt Eliza
Thank you very much for the Kashk e Bademjoon
I always wanted to cook Kashk e Bademjoon and did not know how. I learned from your recipe and I would like to thank you for sharing your knowledge with me.
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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.
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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) :)
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20 Aug 2010 08:12 AEST
maryam
. . .
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wow! I love it . . . It is great!
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12 Jul 2010 09:58 AEST
momy
dear
fantastic
i love it
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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
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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.
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10 Jan 2009 03:57 AEST
yashar
bondi junction
clip
put the movie for kashk bamjann
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