Hello everybody, it is me again, Dan, welcome to our recipe site. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, roasted garlic baba ganoush. It is one of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Roasted Garlic Baba Ganoush is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Roasted Garlic Baba Ganoush is something which I have loved my whole life. They are nice and they look fantastic.
It's perfect for snacking or as an appetizer. This easy baba ganoush is one of my favorite dips—it's like hummus but made with roasted eggplant instead of chickpeas. I swap out the traditional pita bread and serve it with sliced cucumber rounds and red pepper slices as dippers. Baba ganoush is made from roasted eggplant that has been puréed with garlic and tahini until it's smooth and full of delicious flavor.
To begin with this particular recipe, we must prepare a few components. You can have roasted garlic baba ganoush using 9 ingredients and 8 steps. Here is how you cook it.
The ingredients needed to make Roasted Garlic Baba Ganoush:
- Take 1 large or 3 small eggplants
- Take 3-4 cloves garlic
- Take 1 Tbsp olive oil
- Take 2-4 Tbsp Tahini to taste
- Prepare 1 small lemon or 1 lime
- Make ready 1/4 tsp ground cumin
- Take to taste salt
- Get Cayenne pepper or paprika to garnish
- Make ready Optional- fresh parsley, cilantro, or basil to garnish
Is Baba Ganoush good for you? Baba Ganoush is considered a healthy dish. It is high in both dietary fiber and protein. Do you eat Baba Ganoush hot or cold?
Steps to make Roasted Garlic Baba Ganoush:
- If you have a big eggplant, cut it in half lengthwise. Leave thinner/smaller eggplants whole. Poke with a knife or fork in several places.
- Put 3-4 garlic cloves, unpeeled, inside of a small pieces of aluminum foil and pour in a glug (1 Tbsp-ish) of olive oil along with it. Close foil around garlic (make sure oil won't leak out).
- Lay eggplant(s) on a pan (skin-side up if you cut them) along with garlic. I brushed it with just a little olive oil to keep it from drying out. Broil, grill, or roast for about 40-50 minutes (My oven was set to broil at 500°F/260°C.) If baking in oven, bake 40-60 min. at 400°F/200°C, skin side up.
- Remove garlic after 20-25 minutes so it doesn't burn. The cloves should be soft inside their skins. Cook the eggplants for the remaining time until skin is starting to blacken and flesh is very soft.
- When they're soft enough, remove eggplants and let cool until you can touch them. Scoop out flesh away from skin and put into a large bowl. Mash with fork.
- Squeeze or scoop out roasted garlic cloves from their skins and mash into eggplant. If you end up burning one or two like me, you can finely chop a fresh garlic clove to replaces it ;) It'll look a little gross at first, but once everything is mixed, it'll be okay, hehe.
- Add 2-4 Tbsp of tahini (depending how much sesame taste you like) and 1/4 tsp ground cumin. Mix well. Squeeze lemon or lime and add 2-3 Tablespoons, mix and taste. Add more for more tartness. (I used a whole lime, about 4 Tbsp). Last, mix in salt until it tastes good too you :)
- Garnish with a dash of cayenne or paprika for color or spice, and some chopped herbs like parsley, basil, cilantro, etc. Enjoy as a dip or sandwich spread!
It is high in both dietary fiber and protein. Do you eat Baba Ganoush hot or cold? Baba Ganoush is generally eaten as a. Making baba ganoush is a very similar process to making hummus. We are basically swapping the chickpeas called for in hummus for delicious roasted eggplant.
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