Kashk Bademjan

I will share my first persian dish. Kashk -e- Badamjan. Kashk is persian sour cream i can say, while bademjan is eggplant. This dish can be served as an appetizer with naan (bread) and fresh sabzi (vegetables). But for me it is heavy enough to eat as a main course. 

My experience with this dish -

I first ate this at Iranian restaurant in Langkawi. First taste, oh! what is this? I couldn't swallow, You know, my malay tongue always eat spicy, when it comes to sour + eggplant, euwww. Later my bff gave me a bottle of kashk from Iran and i just leave it on shelve until one day i asked him, "what u want me to do with the kashk? Kashk-e-bademjan doros kon (cook kashk-e-bademjan)". Ok i take the challenge. After several videos on youtube and recipe books, i cooked it and miracle! he said khoshmazas (delicious). Since then i cooked it at least 1 time in 2 weeks, depends on the kashk stock because it is hard to find it in my area. I managed to accept the taste. You want to know how? shhh...i put more onions in it. So that it wont taste too sour or too bademjan. haha.

Ok, now i share you the recipe:

Ingredients:

Bademjan (Eggplant)

Kashk (Can be found at persian mart)

Piaz (Onion)

Zardchubeh (Turmeric powder)

Felfel siyah (Black pepper)

Namak (Salt)

Roghan (Oil)

Nane (Dried Mint)

Aab (Water)

Methods:

1. Peel and fry the eggplants until golden brown. Put aside. I found out this way tastier rather than baked the eggplant in oven. But your dish will turn out oily. Normally when the dish is ready, i will spoon out the excess oil.

2. Saute onion until golden brown. Take out half of it for garnish. Put the eggplant on top of the onion, sprinkle with turmeric, black pepper and salt.

3. Pour in water until cover the eggplant, stir once, close lid, leave for 20 minutes until all the ingredients mix well. Then put in some kashk.

4. In other pan, put some oil and fry the dried mint until the aroma arise. Just for seconds.

5. Put in the eggplant mixture in a bowl or plate, decorate with kashk, dried mint and fried onion. Ready to be served with fresh vegetables and flat bread.

Khoda hafez!!