Turkish Eggplant

Ingredients

• Two eggplants
• Two pounds of cold beef, mutton or veal
• One onion
• Six whole peppers
• Half teaspoon cloves
• Ditto allspice
• celery seed
• One tablespoon of salt
• One tablespoon of white pepper
• Cold gravy or water

Directions

1. Slice the eggplant and fry it until the eggplant turns light brown. 
2. Chop the meat into fine pieces and season it with fine chopped onion, pepper cloves, ditto allspice, celery seed, white pepper and salt.
3. Add the marinated meat in a baking disk and cover the dish with eggplant on top.
4. Cover with another dish and set in oven 
5. Remove it in time to let the top brown a little before fully cooked

Source — Creole Cookery Book
Prepared by Prabin Bhattarai
Louisiana Anthology
March 17, 2020