Afghan Eggplant with Yogurt and Garlic Sauce Recipe
Borani Banyan is a traditional Afghan recipe. Fried eggplant stewed in tomato sauce is served with cold garlic yogurt and sprinkled with a large amount of dried mint on top. Usually such eggplants are served with kabuli pulao (pilaf) with pita bread or naan (wheat tortilla).
Servings 2
Cook Time 30 minutes
Ingredients
For the main course:
- 200 gram Eggplant
- 200 gram Tomato
- 2 cloves Garlic
- 4 tablespoons Vegetable oil
- 0,25 teaspoon Turmeric
- 0,25 teaspoon Cayenne pepper
- 1 tablespoon Mint (dried)
- 50 ml Water
- Salt to taste
Instructions
- We make the sauce. Pour the yogurt into a bowl and squeeze out the garlic there. You can chop it finely.
- Mix the sauce and put it in the refrigerator. It should be cold.
- We prepare food. All products are weighed. To serve, we will need dried mint. My mint just started to dry and I cut it.
- The eggplant was peeled from the skin and cut across ~1 cm thick.
- Pour the oil into a frying pan and heat it, spread the eggplant slices. I have the whole eggplant in a frying pan D-24 cm. Fry on one side.
- Turn over and fry on the other side until golden brown.
- We remove it on a paper towel, blot the excess oil.
- Grate the tomato on a grater.
- Finely chop the garlic.
- We take a saucepan, pour oil and heat it. Spread the garlic. Fry it for a minute so that it gives its flavor to the oil.
- Spread the grated tomato.
- Pour water, spread turmeric, cayenne pepper, salt to taste and bring to a boil. Cook the tomato sauce for 5 minutes.
- The sauce is ready.
- Spread the fried eggplants, turn down the heat, cover with a lid and cook on low heat for 10 minutes. Make sure that the eggplants do not boil. They should remain whole slices. The dish is ready.
- We are serving. Remove the yogurt-garlic sauce from the refrigerator. Pour it on the bottom of the plate.
- We spread the eggplant together with tomato sauce on top of the yogurt-garlic sauce. Pour the yogurt-garlic sauce on top again and sprinkle with dry mint.
- I did it only for myself and that's why it's 2 servings for me. I ate it just with boiled rice. It's very tasty! I just recommend it! Borani banyan is a great snack. Tender, slow-cooked eggplants are seasoned and served in a thick tomato sauce with a small amount of yogurt and mint.