Tag: aubergine

Baba Ganoush

Otherwise known as Aubergine dip or if you don’t even use the word Aubergine, eggplant dip.

A delicious middle eastern recipe that is also simple to make, very nutritious as well as delicious.

It is also possible to play with the flavour profile by adding spices and herbs or even other vegetables.

The recipe.

2 Aubergines
2 cloves of garlic
40ml of olive oil, or 2 tbsp
1/4 tsp coriander
1/4 tsp cumin
40ml Tahini or 2 tbsp
juice of a lemon
salt to taste
finely chopped parsley to finnish.

Grill or roast the Aubergines whole for 35 – 40 minutes, or until blackened and soft.
Allow to cool completely.
Peel or scoop out the flesh.

put all the ingredients into the blender except the parsley,
and mix till it’s a smooth luscious paste.
season to taste, and serve with the chopped parsley sprinkled on top.

super easy and greet as a snack with crackers.

Enjoy.

Glorious food shopping

groceries

I love shopping.
Specially shopping for food.

Today I ran around happily in three different supermarkets and the greengrocers looking at all the delicious wares on display.

Scouring the shelves for exotic fruit and heirloom vegetables, I also find unusual grains and nuts. For a moment I thought the supermarket was all out of tofu! That would have been a disaster!

I feel like a hunter gatherer, foraging for all that is good and healthy, fresh and interesting. Recipes shunt through my head in quick succession as I pick up prickly pears and orange blossom honey. Minneola oranges are carefully bagged up. I find beetroot so fresh the green stalks are still crisp and leafy, such freshness I simply could not resist. Passionfruit and limes fall into my basket along with little gem lettuces to turn over on the BBQ. Glorious aubergines, a rich, dark purple, are absolutely at their best now and so versatile.

I sort carefully through the Spanish garlic and fill a bag with shallots. My mouth starts to water. I can hear it frying gently in the pan.

I leave the supermarket clutching my swag closely to me. Smug at the huge haul and sporting a wide grin on my face. I know I have gone a bit mad, I have so much I can barely lift it all. I make a quick getaway to the next shop.

Saving the best for last I head for the greengrocers, it is my favourite shop. Here I spy out fresh coconut and black grapes. Thai basil, fresh ginger, turmeric, lemon grass, and a pineapple. The smoothies are going to be so delicious I just know I’ll make one the minute I get home.

Happy shopping everyone.