Leelushkas Spicy Eggplant Tomato Spread
From divaliscious 17 years agoIngredients
- 1 large cooked grilled eggplant (yield 1-1/2 cups) Chopped up into small bits with skin removed – it will be mushy looking – so hang in there. (You will want a 50-50 ratio of tomatoes and cooked eggplant) shopping list
- 1-1/2 cups of fresh really red tomatoes - cut up and diced into small cubes shopping list
- 1 large pickle or 3 small pickles all diced shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper shopping list
- 1/3 cup apple cider vinegar or more to taste shopping list
- 2 or 3 cloves fresh garlic – minced shopping list
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley shopping list
- 1 Jalapeño pepper minced for heat – keep seeds in for an even hotter flavor (totally optional) shopping list
How to make it
- Take rinsed eggplant and either grill (like when you are roasting green peppers) on your outside grill or inside grill pan (like I did - see photos) turning it over every so often, till it seems very mushy inside.
- No grill pan or outside grill? Place eggplant in tinfoil loosely wrapped onto a cookie sheet and bake in oven for 20 minutes.
- Let eggplant cool, you can also put plastic over it (see photo the way I did) to help skin loosen from the "fruit" inside. That was the hardest part of this dish!
- Gently remove skin from eggplant, and chop into small bits, it will be very mushy but keep seeds in and place in bowl.
- Mince all other ingredients and place in bowl.
- Add salt, pepper(s) and vinegar and stir all together.
- Taste-test and add more salt or vinegar if you would like.
- Cover and chill till ready to serve with warm pita bread cut into triangles (I preferred grilled pita bread - and in fact we used garlic-flavored pita just last night and it was delicious!)




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