Late Summer :: Roasted Eggplant, Tahini, Heirloom Tomato + Mint
Wednesday, September 14, 2011 Recipes
Our CSA has been filling our fridge with wonderful fresh ingredients this season and it’s made us play around with some new ingredient combos. We’ve been making these easy sandwiches for a light dinner or easy snack. For the first sandwich of our fading summer series we combined eggplant and Tahini. This simple open face sandwich is as easy as charring an eggplant over an open flame. We did it on an oven burner, gently rotating the eggplant around until the skin cracks and the insides soften (or a broiler would work as well). Once your eggplant has cooled simply slice in half, scoop some flesh onto lightly toasted sliced bread (we opted for an olive baguette), spoon fresh Tahini over top, sprinkle sliced heirloom grape tomatoes, fresh mint, fresh cracked pepper, lemon and a splash of olive oil. The smokey eggplant, salty olive bread, creamy tahini, fresh tomato and surprise mint are an amazing send off from summer into cooler fall temperatures. Enjoy !
Una meraviglia
ciao
This sounds amazing! Have you ever thought of combining the eggplant and tahini by just using baba ganoush instead – it’s a little wet so I like to put it in a cheese cloth before spreading it on a sandwich… but it is the best of both worlds, and brings the flavors together even more wonderfully. You could then top it with other roasted veggies…
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this look beautiful Karen, and super yummy to boot
I absolutely love the very last, up-close, detail shot. Perfect composition and focus. Great photo!
This gives me a perfect excuse for going to the farmer’s market and splurging on all the beautiful eggplant varieties. Yum!
Eggplant and tahini is a favorite combination of mine. These photos are just gorgeous!
Beautiful & yummy pictures!
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Oooh, this looks SO good! I’ve never known what one does with eggplant ( still in the learning process ) so I’ll make this for dinner tonight. I keep looking for light dinners for my husband and I.
LOVE your site!
Oh this looks sooooo yummy – I´m hungry now ;o)
greetings from germany, geisslein
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