Leelushkas Creamy Eggplant Spread
From divaliscious 17 years ago
- 20 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Creamy and garlicky eggplant spread - this is #2 of my eggplant spreads in three-ways recipe. Serve with warm grilled pita bread and let people dip into the spread and say ahhh and how delicious!
Ingredients
- 1 Cooked large eggplant (yield 1-1/2 cups) Chopped up into small bits – it will be mushy looking – so hang in there. See how to's below. shopping list
- 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt shopping list
- 1/4 teaspoon fresh cracked pepper shopping list
- 3 cloves fresh garlic – minced shopping list
- 1 stalk of minced scallion or several chived minced shopping list
- 1/3 cup of mayonnaise – we used “light” mayonnaise shopping list
- 1/4 cup chopped fresh parsley shopping list
- 1 tablespoon good olive oil drizzled over final product 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 20-30 minutes say at 350 degrees.
- 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.
- Grab bowl and place all other minced ingredients and seasonings into bowl.
- Stir and taste-test to see if you would like to add more salt or pepper.
- Drizzle a little amount of good olive oil on top just before serving.
- Chill in fridge till ready to serve.
Eggpolant grilling and being cooked on inside grill pan
Close
What your finished cooked eggplant should look like
Close
All ingredients in bowl prior to stirring
Close
Eggplant Spreads in Three ways...
Close
People Who Like This Dish 5
- jo_jo_ba Oshawa, CA
- misslizzi Philadelphia, PA
- semini16 Mooresville, IN
- mystic_river1 Bradenton, Florida
- marriage Apalachin
- divaliscious Dutchess County, NY
- Show up here?Review or Bookmark it! ✔
The Rating
Reviewed by 3 people-
Aubergines~ Have to write a song about them..love 'em to death! Thanks, my friend!Joymarie
mystic_river1
in Bradenton loved it
Reviews & Comments 4
-
All Comments
-
Your Comments
" It was excellent "