Leelushkas Spicy Eggplant Tomato Spread |
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Prep Time: 0 Minutes Cook Time: 15 Minutes |
Ready In: 15 Minutes Servings: 6 |
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Need a new way to serve eggplants? Love Mediterranean Foods? Perfect spread for bringing to parties since it’s vegetarian but it pleases meat-eaters as well and those who adore garlic. Serve with warm grilled pita bread cut into triangles or good Italian sliced bread. Read more . This is part one of my Eggplant Three-ways Spreads...which I served all together so that people could pick and choose. Ingredients:
1 large cooked grilled eggplant (yield 1-1/2 cups) chopped up into small bits with skin removed – it will be mushy looking – so hang in there. (you will want a 50-50 ratio of tomatoes and cooked eggplant) |
1-1/2 cups of fresh really red tomatoes - cut up and diced into small cubes |
1 large pickle or 3 small pickles all diced |
1/2 teaspoon kosher salt |
1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper |
1/3 cup apple cider vinegar or more to taste |
2 or 3 cloves fresh garlic – minced |
1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley |
1 jalapeño pepper minced for heat – keep seeds in for an even hotter flavor (totally optional) |
Directions:
1. Take rinsed eggplant and either grill (like when you are roasting green peppers) on your outside grill or inside grill pan (like I did - see photos) turning it over every so often, till it seems very mushy inside.
2. No grill pan or outside grill? Place eggplant in tinfoil loosely wrapped onto a cookie sheet and bake in oven for 20 minutes.
3. Let eggplant cool, you can also put plastic over it (see photo the way I did) to help skin loosen from the fruit inside. That was the hardest part of this dish!
4. Gently remove skin from eggplant, and chop into small bits, it will be very mushy but keep seeds in and place in bowl.
5. Mince all other ingredients and place in bowl.
6. Add salt, pepper(s) and vinegar and stir all together.
7. Taste-test and add more salt or vinegar if you would like.
8. Cover and chill till ready to serve with warm pita bread cut into triangles (I preferred grilled pita bread - and in fact we used garlic-flavored pita just last night and it was delicious!)
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