How to make Turli

Instructions

1. Peel and blend the tomatoes

   • As the first step, we need to peel the tomatoes.
   • Peeling them is very difficult if you are not using this trick.
   • After peeling the tomatoes, use a blender to blend all of them.
   • For faster and better results, add ½ cup water.
   • This will make the blending more efficient, and the paste smoother.

   • You need
   • 6 tomatoes
   • ½ cup water

2. Chop the onion

   • Secondly chop the onion finely, just like my friend Gordon Ramsay does.

   • You need
   • ½ onion

   New to this? How To Finely Chop An Onion by Gordon Ramsay

3. Cut the vegetables, beef and cheese

   • Thirdly, julienne the eggplant, the red pepper, the green pepper and the zucchini.
   • It is important not to mix them together because they require different times to cook.
   • Lastly, take the beef and mozzarella and cut them into small dice.

   • You need
   • 1 eggplant
   • 1 red pepper
   • 1 green pepper
   • 1 zucchini
   • 200 g beef
   • 150 g mozzarella

   Keep the vegetables in separate piles.

4. Fry the beef, onion and peppers

   • In a hot pan, add some olive oil, enough to fry all the vegetables.
   • I would suggest around 3 tbsp.
   • Put the meat first and start to stir it so that it doesn’t stick to the pan.
   • In a minute or two, add the chopped onion and continue to stir it.
   • After we mix the onion with the meat, add the peppers.

   • You need
   • 3 tbsp olive oil

   Start a 5 min timer

5. Add the eggplant and zucchini

   • When the peppers start softening (around 4-5 minutes cooking), add the eggplant and the zucchini.
   • Cook the dish until all the vegetables are properly cooked on low heat.
   • If the heat is too high, there is a good chance that half of the vegetables will be either under-cooked or burned.
   • Low heat is very important.

   The best way to make turli is to fry every ingredient separately and mix them together at this step, but this way is more time consuming.

   Low heat.

6. Simmer in the tomatoes

   • When you notice that all the vegetables are done, add the blended tomatoes.
   • Cover the pan, and leave turli to simmer until the water from the tomatoes is almost gone.
   • You will notice that the color of the tomato sauce transforms from pink to a dark red, just like in the photo up top.

7. Melt the mozzarella

   • 5 minutes from the end, add salt, thyme and mozzarella.
   • Cover the pan to melt the cheese.

   • You need
   • salt
   • 1 sprig thyme

   Start a 5 min timer