Story: Theo’s Baba Ghanoush
Airdate: Ep 10, 7 July 2019
Presenter: Theo Kalogeracos

Doing some entertaining soon? The perfect opportunity to put the eggplant right on the flame and cook up a delicious baba ghanoush. Theo shows you just how easy it can be!

Ingredients:

2 x eggplants
1 x garlic clove
50ml x lemon juice
50gm x tahini
1 tablespoon x water
30gm x sour cream
salt

Method:

• YOU CAN DO THIS ON YOUR BBQ OR ON YOUR GAS COOKER
  put your garlic clove in the lemon juice and let it sit for 45 minutes
• using a fork pierce the eggplant all over
  put you gas flame on high and place the eggplant directly on flame
• using long tongs turn every so often to cook evenly all over, this should take 45 minutes, they should be blistered and charred all over, let them cool down
• cut the tops off the eggplant then cut down the middle and using a spoon scoop out all the inside try not to get much skin as it will taste bitter, once all the inside is scooped out place all the eggplant into a sieve to drain off any excess liquid, let it sit in the strainer for 5 minutes
• place the eggplant on a cutting board and chop them up into very fine pieces
• put the eggplant into a bowl add lemon juice WITHOUT the garlic clove, it was there just to
• perfume the lemon juice, tahini water and sour cream and a pinch of salt
• using a spoon mix all together till it is consistently mixed through, taste to see if it needs more salt
• you can keep this in the fridge for 7 days but serve at room temperature

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