Arabic Food 102 - Beethnjaan - Middle Eastern Eggplant Dish Recipe

A few weeks ago when Instructacon was in full swing Eric and Christy invited us over their house and gave us all knives and a kitchen full of ingredients to work with. We were each assigned to create a dish and instructablize it. This is my instructable.

Msaka'at Beethnjaan is another one of those really tasty dishes that doesn't take much in the way of preperation but winds up being a large and filling dinner dish. I hope you enjoy cooking this... and as always, remember to invite some friends!

Step 1 Gather Your Supplies

We bought all our ingredients from a massive trip to Berkeley Bowl which I would recommend, but you can get your ingredients from anywhere, here is what you will need:

• Large Eggplant
• Greek Yogurt
• Onion
• Tomatoes
• Ground Beef
• Cheddar Cheese
• Allspyce and other spices

Comments

[Robbie Wilson]

Yummy, it looks soooo good! I just may have to attempt this one.

[banlanji]

wowso bigi thought that is 

[talwaked]

Having this tonight for ifthar, shokran Bilal!

[ahappysoul]

I am a huge eggplant fan, the concept of the recipe sounds very tempting.  I think I will make this but substitute lamb for the beef and feta for the cheddar.

[Murphys_Lawyer]

It looks very interesting, BUT, there are no quantities or measurements listed for most of the ingredients. I would not try to make this until I had at least a rough approximation of how much I needed to buy and prepare. If you could fix that, I am ready to cook.

[golden snake]

arent eggplant dishes called baba-ganoog

[symeon]

Babaganoosh is a middle Eastern eggplant "salad" or rather dip, similar to the Greek "Melitzanosalata".

[canida]

This tasted fantastic.
Come back and make more!

[Lithium Rain]

_{If I came, would you invite me to cook? :)}

[canida]

Of course!
We want everyone to cook. ;)

[Lithium Rain]

Sweetness!

[Phill]

Fage is the best stuff in the FREAKING WORLD. I can't believe you actually bought that heavenly item - it's soo freggin' good and expensive.