HüNKAR BEğENDI RECIPE - SULTAN'S DELIGHT
Hünkar Beğendi, or Sultan's Delight, is a rich, creamy dish - and if it was good enough for the sultan, it's good enough for us.
Provided by Turkey's For Life
Categories Ottoman
Time 1h50m
Number Of Ingredients 14
Steps:
- Melt your butter over a medium heat in large saucepan.
- Now add your lamb and stir it round until it starts to brown.
- Once your lamb is browned all over, add your onion and garlic and stir.
- Cook for 5 minutes or so, until your onion starts to sweat.
- Now add your chopped tomatoes, tomato paste (salça) and one cup of hot water.
- Stir everything together.
- Add your thyme/oregano (kekik), salt & pepper and stir.
- Once your stew is simmering, put a lid on the pan and turn the heat to low.
- Simmer your stew for around 1 hour, until the lamb has softened and your sauce has thickened.
- Remove from the heat and make your 'beğendi' puree...
- Preheat your oven to 240 degrees.
- Prick your aubergines with a sharp knife and place on a baking tray in the centre of the oven.
- Bake the aubergines until they are soft to touch (around 15-20 minutes).
- Remove from the oven and leave them to cool.
- Once cooled, make a slit along the length of each aubergine.
- Scrape out the pulp with a teaspoon.
- Discard the skins and as many of the seeds as possible.
- Chop up the pulp.
- Now melt your butter in a saucepan over a medium heat.
- Once melted, gradually add your flour, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon.
- After you've added all your flour, your mixture will be relatively solid and now you can start to add your milk.
- Add your milk a little at a time, again, stirring continuously so that the mixture remains smooth.
- Keep going until you have used up all of your milk and you have a smooth, milky mixture.
- Keep stirring and after a couple of minutes, you will notice the sauce start to thicken.
- Once the sauce has started to thicken, add your aubergine. Keep stirring, gently.
- Now add your grated cheese and keep stirring until your 'beğendi' sauce has thickened enough to make a suitable nest for your lamb.
- To serve, share the beğendi sauce between your plates, making a little nest in the centre of each.
- Now spoon the lamb stew into the nest and allow the sauces to run over the aubergine puree.
- Sprinkle the parsley over the lamb and serve up your Sultan's Delight.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 600 kcal, ServingSize 1 serving
HUNKAR BEGENDI - SULTAN'S DELIGHT (TURKISH LAMB STEW)
Sultan's delight, hunkar begendi, layers a tender lamb stew in a gently herby tomato sauce with the smooth, rich eggplant-bechamel sauce for a satisfying dish fit for royalty.
Provided by Caroline Williams
Categories Dinner Recipes
Time 1h45m
Number Of Ingredients 17
Steps:
- Season the pieces of lamb with salt and pepper. Dice the onion relatively finely and dice the pepper. Finely chop the garlic.
- Warm the oil in a Dutch oven or large pot over a medium-high heat. Add the onions and cook for around 5 minutes until softened and translucent. Add the lamb chunks and brown on all sides. Then add the green pepper and garlic. Stir and cook for a couple more minutes.
- Add the tomatoes, thyme, oregano and tomato paste to the pot. Stir to mix through and cook a minute. Then add the stock/water. Bring the mixture to a boil, cover with a lid, then reduce the heat so that the sauce is gently simmering. Leave to cook for around 1 hour, so that the lamb is tender. (You may want to have the lid only half-on for part of this time to help the liquid reduce a little.)
- Meanwhile, cook the eggplant. If possible, cook the eggplant on a grill/BBQ or over a gas burner. (You may want to cover around the burner with foil to catch any drips.) Alternatively, preheat the oven to 430F, prick the eggplant all over with a knife, and place it on a baking sheet or in a baking dish. Roast for around 40 minutes. In all cases, you are looking for the inside of the eggplant to become very soft, and if over grill/flame, the skin should be well-charred. Once cooked, leave the eggplant to cool so it is safe to handle and open.
- Once cooled, cut open the eggplant skin and scoop out the flesh. Either roughly chop and mash the flesh for a coarser texture, or blend it up for a smoother paste. In both cases, once chopped, try to drain off as much liquid as you can from the flesh as this can make it sour. If you want a really smooth puree, you can press the mixture through a fine strainer to remove the seeds.
- Make the bechamel: Melt the butter in a medium-small saucepan over a medium heat. Once melted, add the flour. Stir as it cooks for a couple minutes and becomes gently nutty smelling.
- Gradually add the milk and stir or whisk after each addition to make a smooth paste. Cook a minute or two more, as needed, to thicken slightly.
- Remove the sauce from the heat, then add the cheese and stir through so that the cheese mixes in and melts. Add the eggplant puree and stir to mix evenly through. Season with a little salt and pepper to taste.
- To serve, either spread some of the eggplant sauce over the bottom of individual plates or all of it on the bottom of a serving platter. In both cases, spread it out so it creates a bit of a bowl in the middle to hold the stew. Add the lamb stew in the middle of the eggplant sauce and serve with bread on the side.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 635 calories, ServingSize 1/6 of recipe
TURKISH EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) LENTIL STEW
Thanks to friedel for sending me some pomegranate molasses! I am having so much fun with it, and this is a great vegetarian recipe. This really tastes better if you make it a day in advance and let the flavors blend. It can be served hot, warm, or at room temp.
Provided by chia2160
Categories Stew
Time 3h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Peel eggplant in strips, then cut lengthwise into strips.
- Cut each strip into 3 pieces, salt heavily with kosher salt and let it sit in a colander for 1 hour.
- Meanwhile, cover lentils with 2 inches of water and bring to a boil.
- Lower to simmer and cook 15 minutes, drain.
- In a bowl add 1 tbsp olive oil and onion, garlic, peppers, tomatoes, mint, tomato paste, and red pepper.
- Rinse the eggplant and dry.
- In a dutch oven layer half of the onion mixture.
- Top with a layer of eggplant, and a layer of lentils.
- Repeat.
- Pour remaining olive oil around sides and over the top.
- Drizzle with the pomegranate molasses.
- Bring to a boil, lower heat to simmer and cook 1 1/2 hours.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 279.6, Fat 24.4, SaturatedFat 3.4, Sodium 9459.2, Carbohydrate 14.5, Fiber 5.6, Sugar 5.4, Protein 3.5
TURKISH EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) PILAF (PATLICANLI PILAV)
Really good. From The Complete Middle East Cookbook By Tess Mallos. This is really nice served with Recipe #322921.
Provided by UmmBinat
Categories One Dish Meal
Time 50m
Yield 6 , 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Cut eggplants into large cubes with skin on. Place in a colander and sprinkle liberally with salt. Leave for 30 minutes.
- Rince and dry eggplant with paper towels.
- Half onion lengthwise and slice.
- Heat 1/4 cup olive oil in a heavy pan and fry eggplant cubes until lightly browned. Remove and set aside.
- Add the remaining oil and gently fry the onion until transparent. Add tomatoes, seasoning, herbs and fried eggplant. Bring to a boil.
- Wash rice until the water runs clear. Drain and place on top of the eggplant mixture. Add chicken stock.
- Bring to a boil without stirring. Reduce heat, cover pan and leave to simmer gently for 30 minutes.
- Turn off heat, place a few paper towels over the rim of the pan and replace the lid (This is important don't ignore this part or your pilav won't be as fluffy!).
- Stir gently and turn into a heated serving dish.
- Serve with yogurt and then enjoy the delicious taste.
HUNKAR BEGENDI
Turkish lamb stew with creamy eggplant sauce, from Claudia Roden. Cheddar or parmesan may be substituted for the kasseri cheese.
Provided by Sass Smith
Categories Lamb/Sheep
Time 2h
Yield 6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 13
Steps:
- Stew: Fry the onion in the oil till soft. Add meat and brown. Add garlic and cook for a few seconds longer.
- Add tomatoes, sugar, and salt and pepper to taste.
- Add water to cover and simmer with the lid on for about 1 or 1 1/2 hours, till meat is very tender.
- If necessary, add more water or let the sauce reduce a bit to get a good saucy consistency.
- Eggplant Sauce: Prick eggplants all over and roast in a very hot oven (500 degrees or as hot as your oven goes) for 30 minutes, until eggplants soften and skin chars. Cool and peel carefully.
- Put lemon juice in a bowl of water and put peelec eggplants in acidified water to keep them white.
- Melt butter in saucepan, add flour and stiur over very low heat for 2 minutes or until well-blended. Remove from the heat and add milk gradually, beating vigorously. Season with nutmeg, salt and pepper to taste. Cook ove rlow heat for 15 minutes, until sauce thickens.
- Drain the eggplants in a colander and squeeze out as much water and juice as possible. Chop in the colander and mash with a fork (I think this step is meant to allow additional drainage).
- Mix with the milk sauce until well blended. Return to the heat, add grated cheese, stir until melted and add more salt and pepper if necessary.
- Serve the stew with the eggplant cream in a ring around it. Serve with rice.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 366.7, Fat 24.6, SaturatedFat 11.8, Cholesterol 91.7, Sodium 145.7, Carbohydrate 17, Fiber 4, Sugar 5.7, Protein 20.7
HUNKAR BEGENDI (TURKISH EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) CREAM)
This literally translates as 'the Sultan's Delight', and it is that! The first time I had it, I fell in love. Mild, rich, buttery - it perfectly complemented the braised beef (in tomato sauce) that it was meant to accompany. This is a very subtle dish. If you want FLAVOUR, look elsewhere. This is flavourful in a more refined way, and also a lesson to our overly-spiced palates.
Provided by evelynathens
Categories Vegetable
Time 50m
Yield 4-6 serving(s)
Number Of Ingredients 8
Steps:
- Grill eggplants whole without peeling them by holding over a flame and turning slowly, or prick skin in several places and set in hot oven.
- When the skin begins to break and the inside pulp feels soft, slip off the skin; discard sacs containing seeds and chop up pulp; put pulp in a saucepan.
- Mix lemon juice with pulp and simmer until very soft, stirring often (10-15 minutes).
- Meanwhile, melt butter, add flour to it and allow flour to brown.
- Beat the butter and flour mixture into the eggplant.
- Slowly add several tablespoons of hot milk and the nutmeg and continue beating until mixture resembles mashed potatoes.
- Lastly add several tablespoons of grated cheese and cook several minutes more.
- Serve immediately.
Nutrition Facts : Calories 264, Fat 13.6, SaturatedFat 8.2, Cholesterol 34.8, Sodium 105.2, Carbohydrate 34.2, Fiber 14.3, Sugar 9.8, Protein 6.5
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