Baba ganoush with coconut
Ingredients
for the grilled eggplant
- 2 medium sized egg plants
to make the dish
- 1/4 cup tahin (sesame paste)
- 1/4 cup fresh lemon juice
- 1/4 cup coconut milk or coconut cream
- flesh of the grilled eggplants, drained from juices
- touch of Thai sriracha sauce can be replaced by some other spicy source
- 1/2 cup olive oil
- 2 garlic cloves
- dash ground cumin seeds
- grind of the pepper mill
- sea salt to taste
- dash smoked paprika powder
- some chopped parsley optional
Instructions
grilling and preparing the egg plant
- rinse the eggplants and either grill or broil them in the top part of your oven at 250 C and or work them through your stove's gas flame for several minutes, until they become charred and soft. Check on them regularly as the eggplant may char and lose all its moisture beyond use.
- If there are juices left, drain these and either discard them or take the time to concentrate them by boiling of water and the add them back to the egg plant meat
- Cut half of the eggplant meat in course pieces and reserve half for the blender
making the dip/salad
- Clean the garlic and heat in olive oil on the lowest heat level, until the garlic becomes yellow to light brown. Then take the garlic and reserve the oil
- Add the sesame paste (tahin), half of the reserved egg plant meat to the blender; give a couple of short pulses of the blender
- Add the lemon juice, the two garlic cloves and pulse.
- Then add the spices and salt and half of the coconut milk and mix
- Take the contents out and mix in with a fork the reserved coarsely shredded egg plant meat. Bring to taste and consistency with more coconut milk and salt
- Before serving, make circular seams in the mixture and sprinkle the garlic- olive oil on to these. Sprinkle whole mixture with smoked paprika powder and parsley flakes
- Serve at room temperature with (warm) crostini or pita bread
- Store left-overs for maximum 3 days sealed-off from air in the fridge.
Notes
Method: grilling
Food allergy & intolerance information: sesame seeds
Food allergy & intolerance information: sesame seeds