A fantastic blue-violet color, dark to black, and thick as a southern night - that's what attracts in the first place in aubergines. How to pass by glamorous flanks of vegetables? And how many it is possible to cook delicious dishes from this wonderful vegetable and it is difficult to re-read.
We will tell you about the preparation of two delicious light snacks: babaganush and mutabal.
Some gourmets who have repeatedly cooked babaganush, the mutabal have not cooked once, and are wondering if there is a difference between the two dishes.
Is, but very insignificant. If Babaganush is a light snack, more like aubergine salad or caviar, the mutabal is an eggplant puree, with the addition of yogurt, or mayonnaise. In different places they prefer their additives. But babaganush and mutabal are delicious snacks, which are mainly used as pate. Smear on soft white bread or pita bread.
- for the preparation of mutabal or babaganusha from eggplants only young, not overripe vegetables are suitable;
- if the leg of aubergine is dark, the vegetable can be bitter;
- for cooking snacks from eggplant, it is better to bake on charcoal;
- If there is no possibility to use the grill, then the eggplant can be baked in a foil on the gas grill.
Salad Babaganush
Ingredients:
- eggplants are young - 3 pcs .;
- sesame paste - 2 tbsp. spoons;
- olive oil - 3 tbsp. spoons;
- lemon - 1 piece;
- garlic - 1 clove;
- cumin (powder) - 1 teaspoon;
- salt, pepper - to taste.
Preparation
First, let's clarify what sesame paste is and how it can be replaced. Sesame paste or tahini , is prepared from sesame seed. If there is no such paste in your stores, then you can cook it yourself by roasting sesame seeds, grinding them into powder and diluting with olive oil until the paste is thick.
Eggplants are mine, and bake, based on the possibilities, on the coals, or on the grill of the gas stove. Cooled eggplants are cleaned and
We mix with the other ingredients. If a very thick mass is obtained, it can be diluted with hot boiled water.
Babaganush of eggplant is simply a delicacy with hot fresh lavash . It's not for nothing that this dish is often prepared in the summer at the dacha. At the cottage and the grill is always at hand, and a snack on a quick appetizing salad is more preferable.
Very often the name of this snack is written as a woman ganush, which in translation means - the father is capricious. Perhaps, for the first time this dish was prepared according to the whim of someone's father, but it was not so tasty from it.