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Eggplants Recipes

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Classic Ajvar with bell pepper, eggplant and garlic — Macedonia recipe

🇲🇰MacedoniaAdvanced

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Classic Ajvar

Ajvar is a sauce popular in the Balkans. It is a paste of roasted red peppers and eggplant, usually mixed with garlic, tomato paste and spices.

90 min360 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free🌱Vegan

Ajapsandal with eggplant, tomato and garlic — Georgia recipe

🇬🇪GeorgiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Ajapsandal

Ajapsandal (also spelled Adzhapsandali or Ajapsandali) is a Georgian vegetable stew of eggplants, bell peppers, tomatoes and potatoes, seasoned with cilantro, basil, parsley, garlic and hot pepper. The eggplant is fried first, then everything simmers together under a lid for 20 to 25 minutes. It is served hot as a main course or cold as an appetiser, and many people think it tastes better the next day. The 70 minutes cover chopping, frying and stewing; salting the eggplant adds 20 to 30 minutes of waiting, and the finished stew rests another 15 to 20.

70 min470 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Baked Eggplant with Meat and Cheese with eggplant, lamb and cheese — Austria recipe

🇦🇹AustriaMedium

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Baked Eggplant with Meat and Cheese

Eggplant stuffed with meat stuffing is a famous dish in Austrian cuisine, which has absorbed the best of Hungarian, German, Czech and Balkan national dishes.

55 min260 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free

Baba Ganoush with eggplant, tahini and lemon juice — Israel recipe

🇮🇱IsraelMedium

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Baba Ganoush

Smoky roasted eggplant mashed with tahini, lemon juice, and raw garlic into a rough, creamy dip that's simultaneously rich and light. The entire point of baba ganoush is the char — the eggplant needs direct contact with flame or the highest heat your oven can deliver, so the skin blackens completely and the flesh underneath turns silky and smoky. I char mine directly on the gas stovetop, which takes about fifteen minutes of turning and gets the best possible flavor.

40 min130 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Moussaka with eggplants, minced lamb and tomato paste — Greece recipe

🇬🇷GreeceAdvanced

Meat Dishes

Moussaka

Three components built and assembled: roasted eggplant, cinnamon-spiced lamb and beef sauce reduced until thick, and a Greek béchamel enriched with egg yolks that sets firm during baking so the slices hold. Moussaka in the form most people know — with that custard-like béchamel top — is a 1920s creation by chef Nikolaos Tselementes, who added a French béchamel to an older layered eggplant dish. The result became the benchmark for Greek home cooking. The work is real but most of it is waiting: the sauce reducing, the eggplant roasting, the assembled dish baking and then resting. The rest time after baking is not optional.

120 min520 kcal6 serves

💪High protein

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