Smoked Eggplants with Tahini Sauce

Eggplants are one of my favorite vegetables , you can do tons of recipes with it, you can grill it , smoke it  and even just boiled with adding spices and sauce to it,mix it with ground beef etc... it easy ,simple with tons of flavor, and you can make it to last the whole week, it is the kind of food that taste better everyday as it get marinated.  

Recipe: for 4 people

Ingredients:

1.       4 Small Italian eggplants, or 2 medium size

2.      4 table spoons of Tahini Sauce

3.      1 Lemon juice

4.      Salt /pepper to taste

5.     3 garlic gloves minced

6.     2 table spoon of vinegar

7.   1 Table spoon of pomegranate molasses 

8.     Parsley ,paprika and olives to garnish

9.     Optional (you can add cayenne pepper if you like it spicy

      Pomegranate for garnish

Procedure :

1.     You will need a grill, or you can simply use your stove top burner.

2.     Put the eggplant on top of the stove burner one by one, and turn it around until skin is burned and feels soft inside

3.     Set the eggplants aside until they cool down

4.     Peel the burned skin from eggplant, and clean any remaining black skin

5.     On the side mix the 4 table spoons of tahini sauce with lemon juice , vinegar, water to liquefy the sauce, add salt and pepper and garlic and mix well .

6.     Make horizontal slice  with the knife in the eggplant, so when you pour the mixture of tahini sauce it goes through the whole eggplant .or you can blend the mixture of tahini sauce and eggplant with hand held blender and make it smooth like hummus.( below  I have both ways done)

7.     Garnish with parsley and paprika .

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