{"id":141305,"date":"2022-09-21T15:24:25","date_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:24:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/yasmin-khan-s-recipe-for-late-summer-turkish-aubergine-and-red-pepper-salad"},"modified":"2022-09-21T15:24:25","modified_gmt":"2022-09-21T15:24:25","slug":"yasmin-khan-s-recipe-for-late-summer-turkish-aubergine-and-red-pepper-salad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/yasmin-khan-s-recipe-for-late-summer-turkish-aubergine-and-red-pepper-salad","title":{"rendered":"Yasmin Khan&#8217;s recipe for late summer Turkish aubergine and red pepper salad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The last late summer meets early autumn days are the perfect occasion for firing up the barbecue and making the most of the relaxed atmosphere that comes with sitting outdoors to eat. To have the impact, I recommend leaning in to the way we use the mangal (barbecue) in the Middle East &#8211; as a wonderful vehicle for grilling vegetables. Alongside the tender and juicy cuts of lamb I ate at the barbecues we had on my grandparents&#8217; porch in northern Iran, there would almost always be some kind of smoked aubergine dip served as an accompaniment. I don&#8217;t know who first discovered that the humble aubergine and the mighty mangal went so well together, but they inspired innumerable dishes across the region such as this punchy garlic-infused Turkish aubergine salad. It&#8217;s a perfect summer dish to serve as an appetiser or part of a meze, scooped up with toasted flatbreads, and eaten along with some slow-cooked beans, grilled meat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Make the most of the last evenings of alfresco dining with this Middle Eastern meze at the heart of your feast<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,112],"tags":[121,6,223],"class_list":["post-141305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-recipes","tag-food-drinks","tag-lifestyle","tag-recipes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141305\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}