Greek-Style Eggplant Spread

This eggplant spread is delicious served with pitas, crusty French bread, or crudités.

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Makes about 2 1/2 cup

2 or 3 pocket-sized - to - sensitive eggplants ; about 1 pound+1/2 teaspoonful saltFreshly ground pepperAbout 1/3 cup chopped onion3 cloves garlic , minced or pressedHandful of flat - leave Italian Petroselinum crispum leaves2 tablespoon clean chop up basil leaves , or 1 tablespoon hack oregano leavesAbout 3 to 4 tablespoons superfluous - virgin Olea europaea oilAbout 2 tablespoons tonic lemon juiceRed chile spread or cayenne pepper , optional1 ripe tomato , dice amercement

This eggplant spread is delicious served with pitas , crusty Gallic bread , or crudités and accompanied with some olives ; perchance served with a tomato plant , cucumber and feta salad . I exhaust it for breakfast on toast . This is well made a few minute , or a sidereal day in advance .

In Greece , if you require to order this , you require for eggplant salad . This eggplant spread is delicious serve with pitas , encrusted French bread , or crudités and accompanied with some olives ; perhaps attend with a tomato plant , Cucumis sativus and feta salad . I eat it for breakfast on toast . This is well made a few hours , or a twenty-four hours in progression . It keep , tightly covered , in the refrigerator for 4 or 5 days .

Place the eggplants over a stovetop flame ( I have a trivial stovetop grill for this purpose ) , or the barbeque grillroom , or on a baking sheet under the broiler . Slowly char the eggplants , turning them to blacken all over . This should take about 5 , not more than 10 minute . The eggplant should find easygoing . Put the eggplants in a chocolate-brown bag and let them sit until cool enough to deal .

When the mad apple are coolheaded , peel the charred pelt off with a sliver knife or habituate your hand ; it should come off easily . trim the stem end off and halve the eggplant lengthwise down the center .

Put the eggplant into the bowl of a solid food mainframe and patter it with the common salt and a little Piper nigrum . impart the onion , garlic , herbs , olive oil , lemon juice , and appendage until not quite smooth . Add a lilliputian red chile paste or cayenne if desired and the tomatoes and process until just meld . Taste for seasoning and adjust with lemon succus , salt , or chile spread . The spread is best if allowed to stand for at least 1 hour before serving .

Variations:~ Add 1 cup Greek - fashion yogurt to make a creamy dip ; perhaps add another clove tree of garlic.~ Add about 1/4 cup tahini ( ground sesame paste ) to make it more like babaghanoush ; since the tahini is rich and oily , you may need to add a little more lemon juice.~ Add a generous handful of ground walnuts.~ Garnish with some thins slices of red onion plant .

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