Eggplant Salad With Tahina

If a doctor, able to help, were at the side of a sick person and promised to help him from his trouble and advised him how to combat his ailment or the poison he had taken, and if the sick person knew that the doctor could help him but nonetheless said: Oh, get out, I won’t accept your advice; you are no doctor, but a highwayman; I am not sick, nor have I taken poison; it will not hurt me; and if the sick person wanted to kill the doctor, would you not say that this fellow, who persecuted and wanted to kill his doctor, was not only sick but demented, mad, and irrational as well?... But this spiritual madness – that we do not want to accept help when God’s Son wants to help us – is ten times worse. Should our Lord God not be angry and let hellfire, sulfur, and pitch rain upon such ingrates? For besides being sinners, we are also so wretched as to reject help and chase away and kill those who urge us to accept it.

Martin Luther

CATEGORY	CUISINE	TAG	YIELD
Eggs			1	Servings

INGREDIENTS

1		Eggplant, about 1 1/4
		pounds
3		Garlic cloves, minced
3	T	Strained fresh lemon juice
1	T	Water
4	T	Tahina, sesame paste
		stirred before measuring
		Salt and freshly ground
		black pepper
2	T	Chopped fresh parsley, for
		garnish optional

INSTRUCTIONS

(Faye Levy)  Prick eggplant a few times with fork. Grill eggplant above
medium-hot  coals about 1 hour or broil it about 40 minutes, turing
often, until  skin blackens, flesh is tender and eggplant looks
collapsed. Remove  eggplant peel and cut off stem. Drain off any liquid
from inside  eggplant. Chop flesh very fine with knife; there should be
small  chunks. Tranfer to a bowl and add garlic.  Stir lemon juice and
water into tahina until smooth. Add to eggplant  and mix well. Add salt
and pepper to taste. To serve, spread on a  plate and sprinkle with
parsley.  Makes 4 servings.  Posted to FOODWINE Digest  by Mirjam Dorn
<dorn@AVODA.JCT.AC.IL> on  Feb 16, 1998

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Nutrition (calculated from recipe ingredients) ---------------------------------------------- Calories: 5 Calories From Fat: <1 Total Fat: <1g Cholesterol: 0mg Sodium: 295.5mg Potassium: 52.9mg Carbohydrates: <1g Fiber: <1g Sugar: <1g Protein: <1g