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Roberta's Smokey Eggplant Dip

Dinner Lunch Sides

Known as Batirsh this substantial Syrian dip is an easy delicious light meal or side dish

40 mins
7 ingredients
$3.60 / person
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Roberta's Smokey Eggplant Dip

Gear

Ingredients

  • 200g packet baba ghanoush
  • 1 teaspoon olive oil
  • 2 cloves garlic, crushed
  • 1 can diced tomatoes
  • 250g lamb mince
  • Handful pine nuts
  • Handful parsley leaves

It’s this easy

  1. Heat a 1 teaspoon olive oil over a medium heat, add garlic and fry for 1-2 minutes, add tomatoes and simmer for around 3o minutes until the sauce is thick
  2. While the tomato sauce is cooking spread the baba ghanoush in a shallow serving dish
  3. Toast the pine nuts in a dry frying pan over a medium heat until golden. Remove from the pan so that they do not burn
  4. Roughly chop the parsley
  5. Heat a frying pan over medium heat, fry the lamb mince until brown and cooked through, drain on a paper towel to absorb any oil.
  6. Spread the tomato sauce evenly over the baba ghanoush
  7. Spread the cooked lamb over the tomato sauce
  8. Scatter the pine nuts and parsley over the lamb
  9. Serve with warm toasted pita bread, scoop generous amounts of the dip onto bread and enjoy

Tweaks

  • For a vegetarian version chop 250g mushrooms in the food processor (using the pulse function) until finely chopped or minced, cook in a small amount of olive oil until all of the moisture had evaporated. Combine with 1 cup cooked brown or green lentils and use instead of lamb.
  • Out of pine nuts? Chopped almonds, walnuts, hazelnuts or cashews would work just as well.
  • Add small dollops of plain yoghurt for extra zing!
  • To save time you can pre-prepare the components and reheat the tomato sauce and lamb when you are ready to serve.

Notes

Serves = 4

Nutrition information (per serve):

  • Energy (1,176kJ)
  • Protein (15.7g)
  • Total Fat (21.4g)
  • Saturated Fat (3.4g)
  • Carbohydrate (5.5g), (Starch (0.6g), Sugars (4.9g), Added sugars (0.4g), Free Sugars (0.4g))
  • Dietary Fibre (2.4g)
  • Sodium (208mg)
  • Calcium (49mg)
  • Iron (2.7mg)

Why is this good?

Be Healthier

Tomatoes are a rich source of the carotenoid Lycopene. Research has shown that diets rich in lycopene is associated with reduced risk of certain cancers, particularly prostate cancer, pancreatic cancer and cancers of the digestive tract.

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Healthier Skin

Tomatoes are considered beneficial to Healthier Skin and the high lycopene and beta-carotene content may protect against sunburn.

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