Eggplant rolls with feta cheese, yogurt, and dill

Eggplant rolls with feta cheese, yogurt, and dill

Appetizers

A Bulgarian appetizer: eggplant slices, fried in the French style, rolled around a filling of grated feta cheese, drained yogurt, fresh dill, and garlic. …

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This Bulgarian dish is prepared in advance: the eggplants, which have been salted and then fried, are rolled around a fresh filling of salty cheese, drained yogurt, dill, and garlic. Serve them cold, on a bed of lettuce.

Ingredients and directions

  • Prep time25 min
  • Cook time20 min
  • Resting45 min
  • Total1 hr 30 min
  • DifficultyEasy
  • CostModerate
  • Cooking methodfrying
  • Estimated cost$15.85 $3.96 / serving Estimated price; varies by store.
  • Vegetarian

Ingredients

4 people
  • $7.00
  • $3.90
  • $0.91
  • $3.67
  • $0.10
  • $0.14
  • $0.03
  • $0.10

Prices from US supermarkets.

Directions

  1. Grate the cheese. ≈ 8 min
  2. Add the olive oil, drained yogurt, chopped dill, and finely chopped garlic, then add the ground black pepper; mix well. ≈ 4 min
  3. Slice the eggplants, salt them, and let them drain in a slightly inclined dish.
  4. Fry the slices in hot sunflower oil.
  5. Let the eggplants cool, then place some of the filling on each slice and roll it up.
  6. Serve the rolls on lettuce leaves. ≈ 2 min

The bill

Eggplant rolls with feta cheese, yogurt, and dill

  • 1.2 kg of eggplant$7.00
  • 2 heads of lettuce$3.90
  • 200 g of sunflower oil$0.91
  • 380 g of feta cheese (or Bulgarian sirene)$3.67
  • 2 cloves of fresh garlic$0.10
  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil$0.14
  • salt$0.03
  • ground black pepper$0.10

Total$15.85

that's $3.96 per person

Estimated price; varies by store.

Before you start

Ingredients

  • 1.2 kg of eggplant
  • 2 heads of lettuce
  • 200 g of sunflower oil
  • 380 g of feta cheese (or Bulgarian sirene)
  • 500 g of drained yogurt
  • 1 bunch of dill
  • 2 cloves of fresh garlic
  • 1 tablespoon of olive oil
  • salt
  • ground black pepper

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