Mutabal is a eggplant cream with a delicious smoked taste. It is one of the classic dishes that are consumed as an appetizer or Mezze in countries such as Armenia, the Lebanese republic, Syria and Turkey. Not only is it delicious, but also nutritious and very easy to prepare. Bababa Ganoush, is a more spicy cream, with the aggregate of Tahini or sesame paste, a classic ingredient of this kitchen. You can accompany it to your liking with pita bread or crispy vegetable canes such as cucumber, celery or carrot. It is so rich that it is also known as eggplant caviar. Tempted? Stay in recipes and discover how to make mutabal, cook!
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Ingredients to make Lebanese mutabal: |
1 eggplant ¼ teaspoon of tahini 1 tablespoon of olive oil ½ teaspoon of paprika 1 roasted garlic clove 25 milliliters of lemon juice 1 pinch of salt and pepper to taste |
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Ingredients to make Lebanese mutabal:
1. To start preparing this delicious mutabal, the eggplants. To do this, you can burn them clean with their skin by placing them directly on the fire, on the grill or wrapping them on aluminum foil and cooking them in the coals or in the strong oven (200 ºC) for approximately 30 minutes. In this point we look for the eggplant take the classic smoked flavor of this dish. Once cooked, cut them in half and remove the pulp. Reserve it.
2. cook the garlic wrapped in aluminum foil in the strong oven (200 ºC) or in the embers for 30 minutes. You will get a soft and smoked garlic paste that will remain wonderful in this and many more recipes.
Trick: Guard it in the fridge and will last more than 1 week.
3. Process 1 garlic clove with the eggplant pulp and condiments. Rectify the taste as many times as necessary. The original mutabal recipe grinds the eggplant pulp with the ingredients in a mortar. This can even be an option for you if you don have a processor. In fact, if you didn have a mortar you could crush eggplants and garlic with the help of a fork. They will be so soft because of their cooking that it will not be a problem. Everyone can prepare this dish!
4. The Lebanese mutabal serves in a bowl and decorate it with a thread of oil and paprika. To eat!
Trick: If you wish, you can add mint leaves or chopped parsley to finish decorating and flavoring your roasted eggplant mutabal.