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Serves
8-10 individuals
Writer Notes
This recipe is in step with a favored Macedonian spread/dip called “pinjur” (PEEN-jur). A combination of roasted eggplant, italian sweet peppers, tomatoes and walnuts, this dish receive’s its kick from pureed uncooked garlic. Whereas you like less bite then spend less garlic, but when you happen to are esteem me 3-4 cloves is appropriate staunch for this stunning spread. The class of this recipe is that it be straightforward to put together, very nutritious and retains for relatively some time. It is the best different to hummus, if you happen to are searching out one. Encourage and receive pleasure from with pals! —nycnomad
Substances
1
Eggplant (great)
2-6
Garlic cloves
1 cup
Walnuts
1 teaspoon
Salt (or to taste)
1-2
Tomatoes
4
Italian sweet peppers
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Olive oil
Instructions
- Pre-warmth the oven to 350F. Wash the eggplant, tomatoes and peppers.
- Decrease the eggplant in half lengthwise. Terminate the identical with the peppers casting off the seeds. Decrease the tomatoes into quarters.
- Attach of residing all of the vegetables in a roasting pan that has been lined with aluminum foil (for easy clear up) and drizzle generously with olive oil.
- Roast the vegetables till they are completely cooked thru. They may merely peaceable all have a tender consistency when poked with a fork. (About 30-40 min)
- Whereas vegetables are roasting, peel the garlic and slit coarsely. Conceal garlic with the salt and grind true into a magnificent paste the spend of both a mortar and pestle or the flat facet of a knife. This releases the shock of the garlic. Grind till the combination reaches a cozy paste. Attach of residing aside.
- Once the vegetables have carried out cooking, get rid of from the oven and blueprint aside till cooled to room temperature.
- When fully cooled, get rid of the pores and skin from the eggplant and location in a food processor or in a bowl. Blend coarsely.
- Steal away the skins from the assorted vegetables and slit coarsely by hand. Bolt them into the eggplant adding the garlic puree. Mix completely.
- Reduce the walnuts by hand or with a food processor. They needs to be chopped finely but no longer so finely that they lose their crunch. Add the walnuts to the pinjur and trek till blended at some level of.
- Encourage with pita chips, crackers or your accepted bread.
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