Meatless Friday Meal Recipe Linkup: Baba Ganoush

By on March 23, 2012 in Meatless Friday, Recipes

Every week during lent on Friday I will be sharing a meatless meal with you all and I am inviting everyone to link up to a meatless recipe on their own blog.

The only rules are:

1. You must post a link to the actual recipe on your blog and not to your front page.
2. Please place a link in your blog post back here so everyone can find all of our recipes.
3. Only post one recipe per week.

Thats it!

Here is my recipe for this week.

There are two things I would not eat until I was into my 30’s, okra (I like it raw and fried) and eggplant!  In my house eggplant was slimy and yucky and no way was I going to eat it!  As an adult, I would not even consider it even though Poppa loves it.  Then one day I saw a humus recipe that looked amazing.  After reading it I realized that this hummus, baba ganoush, was made from eggplant.  I love hummus, it is something I can eat all the time so I decided to be a big girl and try it.

This is not my recipe, I got it from Saveur.com but I can tell you that it is easy and paired with some flat bread of naan, it is really good.

I also found this awesome youtube from Grow. Cook. Eat that shows you step by step.

so there you have it.  I hope you try it.

Baba Ganoush

SERVES 4
8 cloves garlic, unpeeled
2 medium eggplants
⅓ cup fresh lemon juice
¼ cup plus 2 tbsp. Tahini
2 tbsp. mayonnaise
1 tbsp. finely chopped parsley
1 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. paprika
Salt and freshly ground black pepper, to taste

Place garlic and eggplants on a foil-lined baking sheet, and broil until tender and charred all over, about 10 minutes for garlic, and about 40 minutes for eggplant. Peel and seed eggplants, and mash flesh with peeled garlic, juice, tahini, mayonnaise, 2 tsp. parsley, the cumin, paprika, and salt and pepper in a bowl; sprinkle with remaining parsley.

If you have a meatless meal that you would like to share, just include the link at the bottom.  

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