Mirza Ghasemi Recipe (Smoked Eggplant with Garlic and Tomato)

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Mirza Ghasemi is a food you must eat when you travel to the north of Iran. This delicious Persian appetizer has a taste of smoky eggplant (aubergine) and garlic. For making Mirza Ghasemi, you just need eggplant, tomato, egg, tomato paste, and general spices like salt, black pepper, and turmeric. You can find its ingredients in every house, and this makes it an easy and fast vegetarian appetizer to cook.

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Mirza Ghasemi Ingredients

4 eggplants
2 tomatoes
2 eggs
1/2 chop garlic
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

For cooking a fantastic food, you should have high-quality ingredients. Also, finding a good eggplant is sometimes hard, and eggplant of poor quality is bitter. So first, I want to show you how to find a good eggplant.

How to Choose a Good Eggplant for Mirza Ghasemi?

what is a high quality eggplant for mirza ghasemi

Eggplant is one of the main ingredients of Mirza Ghasemi, and finding a good eggplant can make our food more delicious. There are some tips for choosing a good eggplant:

A good eggplant has shiny and smooth skin.
Try to choose a slightly firm eggplant, and when you press the eggplant, it should bounce back into its shape.
Its stem should be green.

Now we have found our suitable eggplants. Let’s dive into our lovely food and find out how to cook Mirza Ghasemi.

Best Mirza Ghasemi Recipe

The first step for cooking Mirza Ghasemi is grilling four eggplants. Grill them on the barbecue or over the stove until the flesh is soft and its skin is charred.
Then divide the flesh of eggplants. There is an easy way to extract its flesh. Cut the eggplant vertically from its stem to the bottom. Then open it, and take out the flesh with a spoon.
Chop 1/2 bulb of garlic into small pieces. Prepare a pan and add five tablespoons of vegetable oil to it. sauté garlic pieces on medium heat.
When the garlic pieces become golden, chop and mash eggplants’ flesh completely, and add them to the garlic pieces with 1/2 teaspoon turmeric, 1/2 teaspoon black peppers, and 1 teaspoon salt. Cover the pan and let eggplants and garlic cook for 10 minutes.
After 10 minutes, make two tomatoes pure, add them to the pan with 1 tablespoons of tomato paste, and cook them for about 10 minutes with the covered pan. If it is watery, heat them for a while carefully.
Finally, add two eggs and mix them all. After minutes when the eggs are cooked, our Mirza Ghasemi is ready!

How to Serve Mirza Ghasemi?

There are two ways for serving Mirza Ghasemi, serve it with flatbread such as Lavash bread or pitta bread as an appetizer. Also, you can serve it with rice for the main course.

Serve it with side dishes like “Zeytoon Parvardeh,” fresh herbs, olive, or Seer Torshi. Enjoy your dish!

Tips on Making Eggplant Dip

For the greatest smoky char on the eggplants, use a grill, burner, or charcoal barbecue.
If you’re using a stovetop burner, cover it with aluminum foil to make cleaning up the charred skin and eggplant liquid easier.
Watch the eggplants and flip them from time to time to prevent them from burning in the flames.
Make careful to remove all of the browned skin for a smoky, not burned, flavor in the meal.
Avoid overcooking the eggs; you want them to be creamy and tender rather than dry or scrambled.

How to Store Mirza Ghasemi

Remaining food can be kept in the refrigerator for up to three days if it is sealed tightly.
To reheat, place it in a pan over low heat and slowly reheat, adding a little water to make it steam. Moreover, you may reheat in a microwave.
In addition, freezing lasts for three months. It’s best to wait to add the eggs until the day you want to consume it. Just defrost the eggs in the fridge for the entire night, then reheat and fry them when they’re ready.

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FAQs on Mirza Ghasemi Recipe

Is it possible to make Mirza Ghasemi sans eggs?

It is possible to make Mirza Ghasemi without eggs, but the eggs give the dish a fuller flavor and texture. You can easily leave out the eggs and still have a wonderful vegan or egg-free alternative.

What variety of tomatoes suit Mirza Ghasemi the best?

For Mirza Ghasemi, ripe, juicy tomatoes work best. Though any fresh, ripe tomato would do, plum or Roma tomatoes are the most usually utilized varieties. Before adding the tomatoes to the recipe, they should be pureed or finely diced.

Is it possible to substitute canned tomatoes with fresh ones?

Absolutely, fresh tomatoes may be replaced with tinned tomatoes. For optimal texture, use whole or crushed tomatoes when using canned tomatoes. Because canned tomatoes might occasionally have a more intense flavor, be sure to adjust the spice.

Mirza Ghasemi Recipe (smoked eggplant with garlic and tomato)

Recipe by FerdosCourse: AppetizersCuisine: Persian foodDifficulty: Easy

Servings

servings

Prep time

minutes

Cooking time

minutes

Calories

335

kcal

Mirza Ghasemi is a dish from the north of Iran, made of smoked eggplant, tomato, garlic and egg. Don’t lose this vegetarian appetizer!

Ingredients

4 eggplants
2 tomatoes
2 eggs
1/2 chop garlic
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon turmeric
1/2 teaspoon black pepper

Directions

The first step for cooking Mirza Ghasemi is grilling four eggplants. Grill them on the barbecue or over the stove until the flesh is soft and its skin is charred.
Divide the flesh of eggplants. There is an easy way to extract its flesh. Cut the eggplant vertically from its stem to the bottom. Then open it and take out the flesh with a spoon.
Chop 1/2 bulb of garlic into small pieces.
Prepare a pan and add five tablespoons of vegetable oil to it. sauté garlic pieces on medium heat.
When the garlic pieces become golden, chop and mash eggplants’ flesh completely and add them to the garlic pieces with 1/2 teaspoon turmeric, 1/2 teaspoon black peppers, and 1 teaspoon salt. .
Cover the pan and let eggplants and garlic cook for 10 minutes.
Make two tomatoes pure, add them to the pan with 1 tablespoons of tomato paste, and cook them for about 10 minutes with the covered pan.
If it is watery, heat them for a while carefully.
Add two eggs and mix them all. After minutes when the eggs are cooked, our Mirza Ghasemi is ready!

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Notes

There are two ways for serving Mirza Ghasemi, serve it with flatbread or pitta bread as an appetizer. Also, you can serve it with rice for the main course.
Serve it with side dishes like “Zeytoon Parvardeh,” fresh herbs, olive, or Pickled garlic. Enjoy your dish!