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Hünkar Beğendi (Sultan's Delight)

Asia › Turkey
serves 4 40 min Easy 8 versions
Gluten-free Under 45 Minutes Dinner
Meat Dishes

Beğendi with Minced Meat

One of 8 versions of Hünkar Beğendi (Sultan's Delight). The table below shows how their ingredients differ.

Ingredients

Servings 4 people
  • 3 piece aubergine
  • 200 gram minced meat
  • 1 piece red onion
  • 100 gram processed cheese
  • half tea glass (100 ml) olive oil
  • 1 dessert spoon salt
  • 1 teaspoon black pepper
  • To decorate
  • 1 piece tomato
  • 4 leaf lettuce

How to make it

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  1. Char the aubergines and peel them.
  2. Mash them with a fork into a puree.
  3. Chop the onion small and soften it in the fat until pink.
  4. Add the minced meat and fry it.
  5. Add the salt and the black pepper.
  6. Add the grated processed cheese, stir it in well and take the pan off the heat.
  7. Add the aubergine puree to the cheesy minced meat and stir.
  8. Decorate with slices of tomato and lettuce leaves and serve hot.
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Hünkar Beğendi (Sultan's Delight) versions

They are all the same dish; the table below lists only the ingredients that set them apart. Ingredients common to every version (flour, salt, oil) are left out — they make no difference.

Classic base Baked Beğendi only Marinated meat With lamb chops With minced meat With spice bag With tomato
Ingredient Classic Baked Beğendi only Marinated meat With lamb chops With minced meat With spice bag With tomato
flour ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
kaşar cheese ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
milk ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓
lemon ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — — ✓ ✓
onion ✓ ✓ — ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓
tomato ✓ ✓ — ✓ ✓ ✓ — ✓
butter — ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ — — ✓
lamb ✓ ✓ — ✓ — — — —
margarine ✓ ✓ — — — — ✓ —
paste — ✓ — ✓ — — — ✓
pepper — — — ✓ ✓ — — ✓
water — ✓ — — — — ✓ ✓
black pepper — ✓ — — — ✓ — —
diced lamb — — — — — — ✓ ✓
parsley — ✓ — — ✓ — — —
basil — ✓ — — — — — —
bay leaf — ✓ — — — — — —
coconut — — ✓ — — — — —
garlic sauce — ✓ — — — — — —
lamb chops — — — — ✓ — — —
lettuce — — — — — ✓ — —
minced meat — — — — — ✓ — —
oil — ✓ — — — — — —
olive oil — — — — — ✓ — —
oregano — ✓ — — — — — —
processed cheese — — — — — ✓ — —
spice bag — — — — — — ✓ —
spices — — — — — — — ✓
tomato paste — — — — — — ✓ —

Classic

serves 6 1 hr 25 min

The classic recipe, in which meat cooked with tomatoes is served with a hot beğendi puree made at the moment of serving.

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Baked

serves 6 1 hr 40 min

A palace-style kebab in which the meat goes into an earthenware dish, is layered with kaşar cheese and beğendi, and then rests in the oven.

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Beğendi only

serves 4 35 min

No meat, just the beğendi: a puree in which charred aubergine is worked into a bechamel made with milk.

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Marinated meat

serves 4 6 hr 10 min

A kebab in which meat marinated for 5-6 hours in onion juice is served with a puree of charred aubergines.

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With lamb chops

serves 2 35 min

A single serving: grilled lamb chops on a bed of beğendi.

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With spice bag

serves 6 1 hr 40 min

Diced lamb cooked slowly with a bag of spices; the classic method, in which the beğendi is built on a roux.

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With tomato

serves 6 1 hr 20 min

Diced lamb cooked with tomatoes and tomato paste, on a beğendi built with cold milk.

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