Monday, March 23, 2009

Baba Ganoush is oh so very good!


Recipe Ingredients
  • 1 large eggplant
  • approx 2 T of tahini
  • approx 2 T of good extra virgin olive oil
  • juice of a large lemon
  • salt to taste
  • 2 cloves crushed garlic
  • one drop of liquid smoke (optional)
Instructions
Wash the eggplant and put it whole in a baking dish in a hot oven, turn it a few times and cook until is quite soft and skin is charred

cool eggplant on rack over a bowl, reserve juice that drips out

peel eggplant

process eggplant and juice with rest of ingredients, adjust seasoning to taste

put in nice bowl or plate, drizzle with a little more olive oil and sprinkle with paprika, oh la la looks so pretty!


serve with toasted turkish bread/home made pita chips, celery, carrots, good olives


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2 comments:

  1. SarahMarch 24, 2009 at 6:41 PM

    Oh, I love baba ganoush! You ladies are amazing :-)

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  2. SarahMarch 24, 2009 at 6:44 PM

    And another way of cooking baba is to char the eggplant on the burner. you'll set off the smoke alarm, but you will succeed in your goal of charring the skin and getting to the goodness inside!

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