Karnıyarık is one of those classic Turkish home-cooking dishes that always feels like a proper meal. Soft eggplants, a simple minced meat filling, and a light tomato sauce that keeps everything juicy in the oven. It’s familiar, comforting, and very doable at home, even if you don’t make Turkish food often. The eggplants are peeled in stripes, softened, then filled generously. The filling is straightforward: onion, garlic, ground meat, and tomato. Nothing complicated, just the