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Baba Ghannouj (Smoked Eggplant (Aubergine) Puree)
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- Ready In:
- 45mins
- Ingredients:
- 7
- Yields:
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1 dip
- Serves:
- 6-12
ingredients
- 2 large fresh firm skin eggplants (2 cups after roasting and squeezing per recipe)
- 1⁄2 teaspoon ground cumin
- 3 garlic cloves, crushed
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 120 ml tahini (sesame paste)
- 40 ml lemon juice
- 100 ml extra virgin olive oil
directions
- Char grill eggplants over a direct flame or roast in the oven until skin has blackened.
- Set aside in a bowl covered with plastic wrap until cool enough to handle, then peel carefully.
- To remove the bitter flavoured juices from the eggplants, squeeze the flesh/pulp until most of the juices have been drained.
- In a food processor, blend warm eggplant, with cumin, garlic, salt, tahini and lemon juice until it is a smooth paste.
- Then while still blending the eggplant mixture slowly drizzle in olive oil.
- Season to taste and serve with your favourite bread.
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Reviews
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This was one of the better baba ghannouj recipes I've had and definitely the best one to come out of my kitchen. The tip of squeezing out the juice from the eggplant was a good one. However, I did use a little less tahini (about 100ml) than indicated and quite a bit less olive oil (about 50ml). Maybe my eggplants were smaller than the ones used in the original recipe, but I just found that the end product was so creamy it didn't need the full amount of either ingredient.
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I made this for the second time today and it turned out really good. This baba ganouj tastes better than the local restaurant makes.The first time I made it, it was awful. The first time, I didn't drain the bitter juice from the ggplant properly and the tahini I used was that cheap stuff from the Asian store. This morning, I bought a jar of very nice organic tahini and I made sure to squeeze the eggplant nearly dry. So I learned that following directions and good ingredients make a big difference. Even if I have been cooking for 60 years, I can still learn something! Thanks for this recipe.
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