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Imam Bayildi
Sevim Aksoy
Chef, Zeytinyagli Ev Sofrasi, Istanbul, TR
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Imam Bayildi

2 h 30 min total50 min hands-onServes 4Easy

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Served at room temperature in a lot of olive oil, which is not a mistake in the recipe.

WHAT YOU GET

  • The chef's hidden note — the technique no cookbook prints
  • Every component built from scratch, each with its own spec
  • Films on choosing and judging the produce before you buy it
  • Gross and net gram weights for every ingredient, per portion
  • Time and temperature at each stage, as run in the restaurant
  • A photo at every step that can go wrong
  • Substitutions for anything hard to find where you live
  • What usually goes wrong, and what to do about it

Yours for good once bought. Updates from the chef included.

BEFORE YOU BUY

Equipment
Wide lidded pan, Roasting tray, Peeler
Allergens
None declared
Method
17 steps · 14 photographed · 4 filmed
Components
2 made from scratch
Films
3, 13 min

2 RECIPES INSIDE THIS RECIPE

Each with its own weights, steps and timings

The sauce, the cure, the dough, the dressing — a restaurant makes these itself, and so will you. Every one below is a full sub-recipe: its own ingredient list, its own method, its own yield and shelf life. Nothing says «use shop-bought».

Striped aubergines

Film

Aubergines peeled in alternating stripes, salted, drained and fried whole until they give.

Fully peeled they fall apart, fully skinned-on they stay tough. The stripes are structural, not decorative.

  • Long aubergines000 g
  • Coarse salt000 g
Steps
5
Time
55 min
Hands-on
25 min

Makes 4 shells

Up to 1 day ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase

Onion filling

Onions cooked very slowly in olive oil with garlic and tomato until sweet and almost jammy.

The dish has four ingredients and no meat, so the onions have to be cooked far enough to carry it alone.

  • Onions000 g
  • Garlic000 g
Steps
6
Time
1 h
Hands-on
25 min

Makes 600 g

Up to 2 days ahead

Weights and method unlock on purchase
WEIGHED

INGREDIENTS

A taste of the list · the rest locked

A few ingredients to show you what the dish is built on. Every one on the full list carries a gross and a net weight per portion, and a note on what you can swap it for where you live.

  • Long aubergines000 g
  • Onions000 g
  • Tomatoes000 g
  • Garlic000 g
  • Parsley000 g
The full list, weighed, unlocks on purchase

WATCH BEFORE YOU SHOP

3 films · 13 min

Most of what goes wrong is decided at the counter, before you cook anything. These are filmed by the chef: what to buy, how to tell it is good, and how to set your own kitchen up for it.

CHOOSING4:00

Which aubergines, and why long and thin

TECHNIQUE4:00

Striped peeling and salting

KIT5:00

Braising in oil rather than water

METHOD

STEP BY STEP — 17 STEPS

14 photographed · 4 filmed

Written the way a restaurant writes a technical card: one operation per step, each with its own time and temperature. 14 of the 17 carry a photo of what it should look like at that moment, and 4 carry a short clip for the parts a still cannot show.

Hardest step: frying the shells without splitting them — step 10 of 17.

  1. 01

    Read the whole method before you start, then weigh everything out. Every timing below assumes the next ingredient is already within reach.

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  2. 02
  3. 03
  4. 04
  5. 05
  6. 06
  7. + 11 more steps, timed and photographed

WHERE IT USUALLY GOES WRONG

3 things Sevim Aksoy watches for every service. You can read what they are right now — the answer to each one comes with the recipe.

  1. 01

    Frying whole before splitting

    What to do about it
  2. 02

    Cooking the onions twice as long as feels needed

    What to do about it
  3. 03

    Always serving it the next day

    What to do about it
The chef's hidden note

The striped peeling that keeps the shell intact, and the oil quantity that this dish genuinely requires.

Written by Sevim Aksoy. Visible only to people who bought this recipe.

Read it — $6.99

NOTES FROM THE KITCHENS

298 verified cooks · 95% said it worked

Only people who bought the recipe and showed the dish they made can leave a note. Nobody is paid for it.

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