Mutabal (eggplant dipp) - recipe (including photos)

 Ingredients:

• 1 grilled eggplant (the entire eggplant is turned on each side for a couple of minutes over a wooden / charcoal fire)
• 80 milliliters of yoghurt
• 2 cloves of garlic
• 1 spoon with tahini
• 1 spoon with lemon juice
• 1 spoon with olive oil
• mint
• salt

Mix the tahini with the crushed garlic, the yoghurt, the lemon juice and the salt.

Separately mash the grilled eggplant and add the mixture above (tahini/yoghurt). Mix until everything is incorporated.
 

We decorated with olive oil, some pomegranate and some mint.

Enjoy!

The original recipe can be found here

Zacusca (vegetable spread) - recipe (including photos)

Ingredients:

• 3 - 4 roasted eggplants
• 2 bell peppers
• 3 onions
• 3 tomatoes
• 200 grams of tomatoes juice
• 1 - 2 carrots
• salt
• pepper
• paprika

Cut the onions and let them fry until yellow.

Add the chopped bell peppers, and the grated carrot, and let them cook covered for about 15 minutes.

Add the chopped eggplants and let them cook covered for about 10 minutes, mixing from time to time.

Add the tomatoes and let them cook for another 30 minutes.

Add the tomatoes juice, the paprika and the pepper and let them cook for another 20 minutes.

Bon Appetit!