Best Hajars Eggplant Aubergine Braniya Salad Recipes

MOROCCAN EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) SALAD

Steps:

• Place eggplant, garlic, water and salt in a pot and bring to a boil.
• Cover and cook over medium heat for 8-10 minutes, or until eggplant cubes are cooked but still firm.
• Drain in a strainer and allow to cool.
• Place cooled eggplant in a bowl and toss gently with the remaining ingredients.
• Very nice served at room temperature.

ARABIC EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) STEW

Steps:

• Rinse eggplant.
• Trim off and discard stems.
• Cut eggplant into 2-inch cubes.
• In a 13x9 inch pan, mix eggplant, onions and oil.
• Bake at 450 degrees, stirring occasionally, until eggplant is very soft when pressed, about 45 minutes.
• Drain and rinse garbanzos.
• Drain tomatoes and reserve juice.
• Measure juice and add water to make 1 1/3 cups.
• Add garbanzos, tomatoes and juice mixture to eggplant.
• Continue to bake, stirring occasionally, until vegetables are hot, about 20 minutes.
• Add salt and pepper to taste.

EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) & AVOCADO SALAD

Steps:

• Pare and dice eggplant.
• Place in a deep bowl and immediately cover with cold water and juice of 1 lemon.
• Whisk together oil, garlic, dulse flakes, pepper and juice of 1 lemon.
• Set aside.
• Peel and dice avocados.
• Place in bowl and toss immediately with juice of 1 lemon.
• Drain eggplant and combine with avocados.
• Add chopped onion.
• Whisk dressing again and add to mixture.
• Toss gently.
• Set aside for about 15 minutes.
• Chill if desired.
• Before serving, toss gently again and sprinkle with honey.

HAJAR'S EGGPLANT (AUBERGINE) BRANIYA SALAD

Steps:

• Brown the eggplant in the oil. No need to salt or fiddle at all with the eggplant. I do this in a large skillet on moderate heat and wait quite a while before moving or turning the cubes. You want it nicely browned and cooked through though not mush. The given amount of oil is enough to do this and I have never had to add more. Your pan will look overfull but the eggplant will shrink.
• While the eggplant is browning prepare the onions, peppers and garlic and place into a glass or plastic bowl.
• Pour eggplant, hot, and it's oil (if any left, though the oil will drain back from the eggplant into the salad during standing for the dressing.) into the bowl over the onion mixture.
• Top with remaining ingredients and mix well. Refrigerate at least 6 hours and serve chilled or room temperature.
• Please use fresh lemon juice and to taste. The amount I use is the juice of 1 fresh lemon. Not easy to give an exact measurement on how much juice 1 lemon will yield but I always use 1 lemon.
• This does need to sit so figure in the sitting time as part of the cook time.