Family and friends have given me the creativity award of "The Queen of Eggplant". Yup, that's me and here is my trillion eggplant recipe.
Ingredients:
For the kibbi:
1 1/3 cup burgul (cracked wheat)
2 cups ground beef 0 fat
Salt to your taste
1 tsp seven spices
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp cumin
3 cups vegetable oil for frying kibbi and eggplant
For the kibbi filling:
1 pound ground beef(10% fat)
1 chopped onion
Salt to your taste
1/3 black pepper
1/2 tsp cumin
1/3 roasted pine nuts
1 tsp pomegranate molasses
4 tbsp olive oil
For the sauce:
1 eggplant
1 cup tahini sesame paste
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup of squeezed fresh juice: 2 lemons, two mandarines, two oranges
Salt
1/2 tsp ground ginger
Cilantro for garnish
Preparation:
Soak the burgul for 10 minutes. Squeeze out by hand every drop of water. Set aside
In a food processor, mix the ground beef with salt, seven spices, black pepper and cumin
Add the cracked wheat
Mix with ground beef mix for couple minutes (2 to 3 minutes) until you form one whole dough. This is your kibbi dough
Set aside to mold later on
In a pot, add 4 tbsp olive oil
Add the chopped onion and salt. Saute until light brown
Add ground beef
Add salt, black pepper, cumin
Cook the mix on medium heat (beef should be fully cooked)
Remove from heat
Add pomegranate sauce
Roast the pine nuts in 1 tbsp olive oil
Add to the filling
To mould the kibbi dough:
Mould your kibbi dough into small size (size of a golf ball or bigger)
Make a hole in the centre cupping it in your palm
Use your forefinger to enlarge the hole
Keep turning the dough to make it as thin as possible
Close and smooth it out
.Set aside
With skin on, cut the eggplant into small cubes. Place in a colander. Add a pinch of salt
Heat vegetable oil. Fry eggplant. Set aside
Fry kibbi balls
Set aside
Time to prepare the sauce..... yum.....In a pot, pour one cup tahini with water. Whisk
Add salt and one cup squeezed juice. Add ginger. Place on stove on medium heat
Cook for 5 minutes
Add the fried eggplant
Prepare a platter. Add the sauce (sauce should be neither too thin nor too thick) Arrange the kibbi balls. Garnish with cilantro
Enjoy/sahtein
Ingredients:
For the kibbi:
1 1/3 cup burgul (cracked wheat)
2 cups ground beef 0 fat
Salt to your taste
1 tsp seven spices
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp cumin
3 cups vegetable oil for frying kibbi and eggplant
For the kibbi filling:
1 pound ground beef(10% fat)
1 chopped onion
Salt to your taste
1/3 black pepper
1/2 tsp cumin
1/3 roasted pine nuts
1 tsp pomegranate molasses
4 tbsp olive oil
For the sauce:
1 eggplant
1 cup tahini sesame paste
1 1/2 cups water
1 cup of squeezed fresh juice: 2 lemons, two mandarines, two oranges
Salt
1/2 tsp ground ginger
Cilantro for garnish
Preparation:
Soak the burgul for 10 minutes. Squeeze out by hand every drop of water. Set aside
In a food processor, mix the ground beef with salt, seven spices, black pepper and cumin
Add the cracked wheat
Mix with ground beef mix for couple minutes (2 to 3 minutes) until you form one whole dough. This is your kibbi dough
Set aside to mold later on
In a pot, add 4 tbsp olive oil
Add the chopped onion and salt. Saute until light brown
Add ground beef
Add salt, black pepper, cumin
Cook the mix on medium heat (beef should be fully cooked)
Remove from heat
Add pomegranate sauce
Roast the pine nuts in 1 tbsp olive oil
Add to the filling
To mould the kibbi dough:
Mould your kibbi dough into small size (size of a golf ball or bigger)
Make a hole in the centre cupping it in your palm
Use your forefinger to enlarge the hole
Keep turning the dough to make it as thin as possible
Close and smooth it out
.Set aside
With skin on, cut the eggplant into small cubes. Place in a colander. Add a pinch of salt
Heat vegetable oil. Fry eggplant. Set aside
Fry kibbi balls
Set aside
Time to prepare the sauce..... yum.....In a pot, pour one cup tahini with water. Whisk
Add salt and one cup squeezed juice. Add ginger. Place on stove on medium heat
Cook for 5 minutes
Add the fried eggplant
Prepare a platter. Add the sauce (sauce should be neither too thin nor too thick) Arrange the kibbi balls. Garnish with cilantro
Enjoy/sahtein