Aubergine Dip

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Preparation info
  • Serves

    6

    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
The Route to Parsi Cooking: From Pars to India and Beyond

By Niloufer Mavalvala

Published 2024

  • About

An old Levantine recipe for eggplant dip is recreated to tie the past to the present. While the traditional methods of roasting the aubergine have usually kept the same, the aubergine dip has many distinct faces depending on where you live. Masked behind the charred aubergine, after which the skin is scraped and discarded, and the remaining soft pulp is transformed into a delectable dip with either a layer of local tahini or kashk. One with sesame paste, the other with dry whey or th