Eggplant Spread Chunky
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Ingredients:
Name | Units | TIP | |
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Vegetable Oil | 5 tablespoons | You can use any mild-flavored oil, such as olive oil, avocado oil, grapeseed oil or butter ghee. | |
Eggplants | 3 | ||
Bell Peppers | 2 | Also, you can use 4-5 mini peppers | |
Onion, chopped | 1 | ||
Garlic cloves | 5 | ||
Celery stalks, chopped | 2 | ||
Carrots, chopped | 2 | ||
Diced Tomatoes | 2 cans | Also, you can use 5 large Tomatoes, diced | |
Sundried Tomatoes, diced | 3 | ||
Salt, to taste | 1 tsp | ||
Black Pepper, to taste | 1/4 tsp |
Optional Ingredients :
Oregano, to taste | |
1 red Jalapeno, sliced, to taste | |
Crushed Red Pepper flakes | |
Smoked Paprika, to taste | |
Handful of herbs: parsley, cilantro, basil |
Steps:
- Preheat the oven to 400 °F/ 200°C. Wash the eggplants (3) and the bell peppers (2). Dry them. Pierce the eggplant skin in several places. Roast the eggplant and peppers on a baking sheet until soft, 50 to 60 minutes. Remove from the oven, and let cool.
- Heat the vegetable oil (5 tbsp) in a wide, heavy-based pan and saute the onion (1) for about 10 minutes over medium heat, stirring frequently.
- Add garlic (5 cloves), carrots (2) and continue cooking for about 5 more minutes.
- Next, add the celery (2), diced tomatoes (2 cans), sun-dried tomatoes (3) and cook, stirring occasionally, until the tomatoes are broken down into a sauce, 8 to 10 minutes.
- Next, you will need to seed and peel the roasted peppers, dice them and add them to the pan, stir everything one more time and cook over low heat.
- Slice eggplants open, and scoop out flesh and let it rest in a bowl for 5 minutes and drain the liquid.
- Add the eggplant to the pan, season with salt, crushed black pepper, crushed red pepper flakes; bring to a gentle boil, then reduce the heat to low, and simmer, uncovered, for about 15 minutes, stirring frequently. Or cook the vegetables down a bit longer to the point where the vegetables break up and sort of combine everything together.
- Taste and adjust seasoning; sprinkle basil leaves, parsley or cilantro (if using).