Recipe: Farmer Jacob's Baba Ganoush

 

As you can see by the sea of eggplant above, we have a bumper crop of eggplant this year. Eggplant is a delicious, hearty vegetable, but it's unfamiliar to a lot of people (including us before we started growing it.) So, here's one of our favorite, and easiest ways to cook eggplant.

Baba Ganoush

Recipe by Jacob and adapted from Farmer John's Cookbook.

2 T olive oil
2 medium eggplant
1/4 c lemon juice
1/3 c tahini
2 cloves garlic
1 t cumin
1/2 t salt
1/4 t cayenne pepper
3 T fresh chopped parsley

I roasted the eggplant on the grill until the skins were charred. After they cooled, I threw the innards and all the ingredients in the food processor and blended away. That's it.