Saturday, July 26, 2008

Eggplant salad

Like the Lebanese moutabel, but with a Georgian twist. Contains roasted eggplants (skinned and chopped) + 2 mediums onions and 4 green peppers, sauted + walnuts ground with garlic, salt and olive oil + fresh chopped parsley and purple basil + a bit of ground Kashmiri chili (and other Indian spices if you like) + grape vinegar.

Georgians add ground marigold (from dried petals) to this. If you know a source in Baku, please post this.

Ingredients are pictured (with a few tomatoes who slipped into the shot.)

Shopping list:

  • badımcan = eggplant (aubergine)
  • soğan = onion
  • bibər = Azeri green pepper
  • qoz = walnuts
  • sarımsaq = garlic
  • duz = salt
  • zeytun yağı
  • cəfəri = parsley
  • qara reyhan = purple (dark opal) basil
  • üzüm sirkəsi = grape vinegar

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