Side Dish

Baba Ghannouj is for Side Dish.

Baba Ghannouj takes several minutes to prepare.

Baba Ghannouj takes several minutes to cook.

Baba Ghannouj makes 5 servings.

The ingredients for Baba Ghannouj are:

1 large round eggplant (aubergine)
2 or 3 cloves of garlic
60 milliliters (3 oz., 4 Tbs.) tahina
60 milliliters (2 oz., 4 Tbs.) lemon juice
salt, red pepper
olive oil
chopped parsley
slices of red bell pepper to garnish

Here is how you make Baba Ghannouj:

Cook the eggplant in a hot oven or on a fork over the flame of a gas stove. When it is well cooked through and the skin is blackened, douse with cold water, peel and chop into small pieces. Mash two or three cloves of garlic to a paste with about the same volume of salt. Add eggplant, mash to a smooth consistency and blend the tahina and lemon juice to make the Arab version of this dish; omit the tahina for the Turkish version. Serve in a bowl with little olive oil on top and garnish with chopped parsley, red pepper slices and a dusting of red pepper. Serves five.Number of Servings: 5Recipe submitted by SparkPeople user LEEFJL.

The nutritional information for Baba Ghannouj is:

• Servings Per Recipe: 5
• Amount Per Serving
• Calories: 79.9

• Total Fat: 4.4 g
• Cholesterol: 0.0 mg
• Sodium: 11.3 mg
• Total Carbs: 10.0 g
• Dietary Fiber: 3.5 g
• Protein: 2.4 g