Pass the Baba Ganoush

Pass the Baba Ganoush

Baba ganoush makes a wonderful topping or dressing for salads, or a dip for crunchy vegies. You can also team it with quinoa and use as a chunky sauce to add flavour. Eggplant has loads of vitamins and minerals, and is rich in manganese, folic acid and the ever-important thiamine, the mineral that helps convert sugar into glucose for energy.

Makes: 1 cup

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Pass the Baba Ganoush

By: Lee Holmes

Baba ganoush makes a wonderful topping or dressing for salads, or a dip for crunchy vegies.


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Prep time

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Recipe


Ingredients

  • 1 large eggplant
  • 8 tbsp tahini
  • 4 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • Celtic sea salt, to taste
  • ½ tsp ground cumin
  • 125mL lemon juice
  • Parsley, chopped, to garnish
  • Kale chips or gluten-free crackers, to serve

Method


  • Preheat oven grill to medium.
  • Prick eggplant with fork and grill for 30 mins, turning frequently, until skin is charred. Remove from grill and set aside to cool.
  • Split eggplant in half lengthways and scoop pulp into large bowl. Discard skin.
  • Squeeze out excess moisture from pulp, then mix with tahini, garlic, sea salt, cumin and lemon juice. Adjust seasoning as necessary and sprinkle with chopped parsley.
  • Serve with kale chips or gluten-free crackers.

  

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Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.

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