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so I’m going to show you how to make a mamboldi the way I make it so in a pan olive oil onions and garlic and once again just cook them off we take the oagene remove the tail then dice not too small not too large we have to take in consideration shrinkage we also have to think about texture add the cumin spread across the pan and remove that water content add the currants add the tomatoes and again cook until they release their water and break down a little lemon juice and just mix it through and then we add the fresh pata which is made with the skins and the insides there we are just work that through bring it down from the sides and then cook the sauce little salt not much always correct at the end so now we take the oene slowly submerge them so slowly reduce your sauce down so once again we reduce with speed why to retain freshness as you can see the sauce is reducing down it’s starting to take on texture and when I run my spatula through it I can still see it closes back rather rapidly i need to take it a little bit more so the Oiggins are ready so what we do now season the over there’s our base sauce basically there so there we are so you can now see the sauce is perfect it’s got body it’s got texture it’s fresh and it’s light now we have the oberines just work the oberines through the tomato cumin sauce with the currants and once again we cool down the man like the ratatouille

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  1. 👧🏼 Let’s see it
    🧑‍🍳 There we are.
    👧🏼 That’s it? Lol
    👩‍🍳 You have to take into consideration shrinkage.

  2. Thank you Chef Marco! I love eggplant and look forward to making this. I’ll remember to go slow, and to look at how the sauce is coming together before I add in the eggplant. I don’t think I’ll be a fan of the currants, but I’ll make it as written the first time. Cheers!

  3. In Greece, and i think also in turkey, we dont dice up the aubergines but rather just slice them on one side, fry or bake them until they are soft and then use the sauce to fill them and put them into the oven. This is an interesting variation.
    Fun fact:

    "Imam bayildi" means "the imam fainted" in Turkish. According to legend, an imam (a Muslim religious leader) fainted either from how delicious the dish was, from shock at the cost of the expensive olive oil used, or from how much of it his wife used. I also heard that he fainted because it was so tasty.

  4. As a Turk, this is how imam bayildi is made if it were a tutorial on how imam bayildi is not made. It looks good, but this is not imam bayildi 🤷🏻‍♂️

  5. Imam bayildi is a Turkish dish and it is done with whole eggplants in original. This dish is something else. A kind of meze, a side dish eaten with alcohol. Not imam bayildi at all.

  6. Eerrrmmmm….sorry but that is not Imam Bayildi…that is what we call Pantlıcan Kızartması….omiting the currants that is. Imam Bayildi is a completely different dish with onion filled slit whole aubergenes. That doesn't mean it is a damn good dish, just….no… It is like baking croissants and saying "this is how I make Lasagna"….

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