{"id":164,"date":"2018-09-12T03:32:54","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T03:32:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/?p=164"},"modified":"2019-02-17T03:13:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T03:13:11","slug":"afghani-eggplant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/12\/afghani-eggplant\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghani Eggplant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Out of all Afghani dishes, eggplant was my very least favourite dish.\u00a0 As a child growing up I never gave eggplant a fair chance. My mind was made up not to like this dish, for reasons I did not know.<\/p>\n<p>It all changed for me when I was pregnant with my second child almost six\u00a0years ago.\u00a0 My body told me, \u201cI want eggplant and I want it now\u201d! I can never forget that day, when I had an entire plate of eggplants all by myself. That was my very fist time \u201creally my first time\u201d trying eggplants. I am forever in love with this dish, and a little\u00a0upset at myself for not trying\u00a0it earlier.<span id=\"more-63\"><\/span><span id=\"more-333\"><\/span><span id=\"more-59\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>If you are a fan of eggplants you will definitely like this dish.\u00a0 It is very easy to make and takes very little time to prepare.\u00a0 This recipe requires for eggplant to be pan fried first and then cook.\u00a0 Keep in mind eggplants soaks up a lot of oil. It is best to brush the eggplant slices with oil and not directly fry it\u00a0in a pan full of oil.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-229 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/finished-afghani-dish-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"750\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/finished-afghani-dish-1.jpg 750w, https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/finished-afghani-dish-1-300x173.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0 Ingredients:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eggplants (any type of eggplant will work. I personally prefer Japanese eggplants the best)\u00a0<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stats.ziprecipes.net\/piwik.php?idsite=1&amp;rec=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/li>\n<li>green\/yellow\/orange and red pepper one each<\/li>\n<li>Plain yogurt or sour cream (I prefer sour cream and yogurt half\/half)<\/li>\n<li>Pita bread is a must ! (taste really good with bread)<\/li>\n<li>11\/2-tablespoon tomato paste<\/li>\n<li>2 cloves of garlic crushed<\/li>\n<li>Salt and pepper<\/li>\n<li>Dry mint<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steps:<\/p>\n<p>Fist in a small\u00a0bowl prepare yogurt mix. You can use yogurt by it self or mix sour cream and yogurt (half\/half ratio), add a little salt to taste and set aside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"instruction\">In another small bowl add crushed garlics, salt and pepper, tomato paste, and \u00bc cup of water. Mix it and put it aside.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zlrecipe-instruction-2\" class=\"instruction\">Wash peppers and cut in to thin round slices. Wash your and peel eggplants. Cut it in \u00bc an inch thick round slices.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zlrecipe-instruction-3\" class=\"instruction\">Use a big pan with cover.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p id=\"zlrecipe-instruction-4\" class=\"instruction\">Generously grease the pan and arrange eggplant slices side by side to fit. When the bottom part is brown, brush the topside with oil and flip it. Keep in mind that the eggplants do require a little extra oil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"instruction\">When both side of eggplants are brown, arrange the pepper slices on top and pour the tomato garlic sauce evenly over.<\/p>\n<p class=\"instruction\">Cover the pan and let it simmer and cook\u00a0on low medium heat till the water is almost cooked through.\u00a0It should take about 15- 20 minutes to slowly cook. Once the water is cooked through the eggplants are ready. Be gentle as it is very delicate dish.<\/p>\n<p id=\"zlrecipe-instruction-7\" class=\"instruction\">Spread\u00a0some yogurt (sour\/yogurt mix) at the bottom first your desired dish. Delicately place the eggplant on your plate. Garnish it with the remaining of yogurt and sprinkle dry mint on top. Must be served with pita bread.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Out of all Afghani dishes, eggplant was my very least favourite dish.\u00a0 As a child growing up I never gave eggplant a fair chance. My mind was made up not to like this dish, for reasons I did not know. It all changed for me when I was pregnant with my second child almost six\u00a0years<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dinner","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/finished-afghani-dish-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Zgfc-2E","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/royatoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}