The delicious season for eggplant dip has arrived🥰 Baba ghanoush & white wine night🌔 It's an adult pleasure, isn't it?🥰

Eggplant is often at the top of the list of vegetables children dislike🍆

Baba ghanoush is a dish that is somewhat geared towards adults!
It goes well with chilled white wine, etc.🎵

But if you eat it looking delicious just among adults, the kids might come over too!?
(Actually, my child has loved it since they were little～)

It keeps becoming an easier way to make it...
👉Our family's eggplant dip: Baba ghanoush🥰

Japanese eggplant skin is soft, so there's no need to remove it!
I've always judged it that way, but...
(Nasunin🍆, a type of anthocyanin pigment, is the purple component contained in eggplant skin. This has strong anti-cancer properties (due to the removal of active oxygen) and is good for many things, such as preventing arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, and dementia!)Nasunin🍆 is the purple component contained in eggplant skin. This has strong anti-cancer properties (due to the removal of active oxygen) and is good for many things, such as preventing arteriosclerosis, high blood pressure, and dementia!)

I used to steam them whole, but this year, I tried putting eggplant cut into about 2cm pieces directly into a pot with a small amount of water and a sprinkle of salt to steam-cook them. (Turn off the heat after 5 minutes of simmering once it boils. After about 5 minutes of residual heat, it looks like the photo below.)
When you add salt, pectin softens easily, so vegetables and potatoes soften quickly and are easy to mash.

Waterless pot I heated it in a pot with a tightly fitting lid, which is called a waterless pot.
(Refer to the article below for my long-loved Vita Craft pot⤵)

If you have sesame paste and garlic, you can manage to substitute the rest with seasonings you have at home.
👉Detailed recipe is ⤵

If you don't have olive oil, other vegetable oils are fine! If you don't have lemon juice🍋, other citrus juices or vinegar are fine!
This time, I had kabosu vinegar, so I made it with that!

Let's make it freely and enjoy eggplant dishes🍆～🥰

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Hatsumi | Registered Dietitian | Plant-based nutrition and cooking @ Veggie Hiroba no Engawa