Eggplant Mash with Garlic and Tomato
From notyourmomma 17 years ago
- 35 minutes to make
- Serves 6
Wonderful fragrant warm eggplant mash, great with torn pita, crumbled feta and spiced olives.
Ingredients
- 2 large purple eggplants shopping list
- coarse sea salt shopping list
- 3 large tomatoes shopping list
- 6 cloves of garlic, peeled crushed shopping list
- 1 bunch of cilantro, stems removed, chopped shopping list
- 2 teaspoons of cumin shopping list
- 1/2 tsp of crushed red pepper flakes shopping list
- 2 tsps of sweet paprika shopping list
- 1 lemon, juiced shopping list
- 1/3 cup of crumbled feta cheese shopping list
- extra virgin olive oil, enough to drizzle over top shopping list
- warmed pita bread shopping list
- green and black cured olives shopping list
How to make it
- Trim the ends off the eggplants.
- Using a sharp vegetable peeler, remove strips of peel, alternating to give the eggplant a vertical striped effect, it looks cool. If you leave all the peel on, it is too tough to mash nicely.
- Cut in cubes and put in a colander, put over a bowl or in a sink and generously salt.
- Allow to sit for 30 minutes.
- Dry eggplant with paper towels.
- Put eggplant in a veggie steamer over boiling water and steam for 15 minutes until easily pierced by a fork.
- Transfer back to the colander and with your potato masher, break up the big chunks, allowing extra liquid to drain away.
- Meanwhile in a skillet, with touch of olive oil, heat the tomatoes
- Cut each tomato in half and using the coarse side of a grater, grate the tomato into the skillet.
- Discard the tomato skins.
- Add the minced garlic, half the cilantro, cumin, pepper and paprika.
- Heat over low heat for 15 minutes
- Stir in eggplant.
- Sprinkle with remaining cilantro.
- Put in serving bowl, top with feta, drizzle with olive oil.
- Serve with warmed pita bread..
The Rating
Reviewed by 4 people-
That is so good..eggplant is scrumptious!Thanks for post. Joymarie
mystic_river1
in Bradenton loved it
-
I love eggplant and I'm always trying new recipes with it lately. This looks awesome!
jencathen
in loved it
The Groups
- Not added to any groups yet!
Reviews & Comments 6
-
All Comments
-
Your Comments
" It was excellent "
" It was excellent "