What to do with preserved grilled eggplant?!
What to do with preserved grilled eggplant?
I recently bought a jar of grilled eggplant. I love eggplant, I love grilled eggplant, so was curious to know what the preserved tasted like and what to do with it.
I tasted a bit out of the jar and it was YUCKY!! It tastes like something burned, that's all! No taste of anything else at all.
What sort of recipes are there for using preserved grilled eggplant? I tried a websearch and it only gives me instructions for HOW to preserve.
Thanks,
Linda
Answers:
You could use it in this baba ganoush recipe:
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Title: Baba Ganoush
Categories: Appetizers, Dips, Vegetarian, Vegan
Yield: 1 batch
1 1/2 lb Eggplant
3 tb Lemon juice
1 ts Salt
2 ts Minced fresh garlic
3 tb Sesame tahini
-- (optional: substitute
-- yogurt or sour cream)
1/4 c Chopped parsley
1/2 c Toasted pine nuts
2 tb Olive oil
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Prick eggplant all over with a fork.
Bake whole until tender (about 30 minutes). Remove from oven, halve
and scoop out the flesh. Blend in a food processor with the lemon
juice until smooth. Mash the salt and garlic together and combine
with the eggplant, along with the tahini. Cool and stir in the
parsley and pine nuts. Before serving, drizzle with the olive oil.
Serve as a dip with tortilla chips or triangles of flat (pita) bread.
(Adapted from The Victory Garden Cookbook)
From: The Cook's Garden catalog, Spring/Summer 1993 (page 20)
You could put some of it on a grilled vegetable panini with roasted peppers and mushrooms, etc. Do you like those?
It also might be good mixed with some things on bruschetta.
But feel free to add other flavors to "doctor it up" since eggplant takes on the flavors of whatever it is mixed with.
Source(s):
Recipesource
You can putting them into pizzas or in your pasta sauces to help mask the burnt taste.