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Baba Ghannouj

Baba Ghannouj

Baba Ghannouj has a sweet memory from my childhood. I spent one summer with my uncle in Queensland when I was around 11 years old. He had a homemade business where he prepared traditional Lebanese dips and sold them in wholesale to markets around town. […]

Eggplant Parmesan

Eggplant Parmesan

An Italian dish my husband and I will ALWAYS order at our favorite Italian restaurants. We have only recently gotten into eggplants, and you will see the various recipes we’ve tried and have become so loyal too. The fluffiness of the eggplants sunk into melted […]

Eggplant Fatteh

Eggplant Fatteh

Once again, the “eggplant” makes a debut. This was our first love affair with eggplants. We tried it our friend’s place and just couldn’t get it out of heads! Up until that point my husband and I never ate eggplants (we both had very bad childhood memories of painful ulcers and the what-not). So our dear friend Linda was our lovely inspiration. Sometimes it really is particular people who are such passionate foodies and cook their food with such love that leave the biggest prints in your “food heart”. Linda had made the vegetarian version of this. But being the meat lover that my husband is, we had to add minced meat. Let me tell you something about this dish, I never thought yoghurt and tomato could mix so well. Try it for yourself. Its super easy, super delicious and it will WOW your guests every time. Every time I cook this fatteh, I get to so many compliments and I end up passing out the recipe, spreading the “eggplant love” 🙂

Eggplant Fatteh

2016-06-12
: Up to 10
: 20 min
: 10 min
: Easy

Apart from the frying, nothing too serious about this dish.

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Ingredients
  • 2 cup vegetable oil
  • 3 big eggplants (washed, peeled, cut into cubes)
  • 1 big pita bread (cut into small cubes)
  • 4 TB vegetable oil
  • 250 g minced meat
  • 2 onions, finely chopped
  • 1 tomato, finely chopped
  • 2 tomatos, blended
  • 10 garlic, crushed
  • One pack Pomi
  • 2 TB pomegranate juice
  • 1000 g greek yoghurt
  • 2 TB tahini
  • 1 TB vinegar
  • 2 TB salt
  • 1 TB butter
  • parsley and pine nuts for decoration
  • 1 tp paprika
Directions
  • Step 1 Deep fry eggplants until golden brown. Fry bread in same oil (salt bread when it’s finished). Drain both on paper napkins.
  • Step 2 In 2 TB oil, fry onion until golden add meat. Make sure meat is finely minced.
  • Step 3 In a separate pot, add 2 TB oil and fry onion and then add 8 crushed garlic. When it’s fragrant and just before they change color, add tomato pieces and cover pot to let cook on low heat.
  • Step 4 Add tomato juice and then Pomi. Season with salt and spice. Add meat mix and eggplants. Add pomegranate juice to taste. The whole mixture must remain thick and not watery.
  • Step 5 Prepare yoghurt with 2 crushed garlic, tahini, vinegar, salt, also must remain thick.
  • Step 6 Layer in pyrex, bread, meat mix, yoghurt mix. Fry pine nuts in butter and drizzle on top with a garnish of parsley and paprika./