This eggplant hummus recipe uses minimal ingredients that are high in protein and fiber and make a great mid-day snack or a unique appetizer for your next dinner party.
Ingredients
1 medium eggplant, trimmed and cut into 2-inch thick pieces
1 (15 oz.) can of Eden Foods cannellini beans (white kidney beans), drained and rinsed
¼ cup lemon juice (about 1 lemon)
2 tbsp olive oil
Grapeseed (or high quality olive) oil for drizzling
4 garlic cloves, unpeeled
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp white pepper
1 tsp dried basil
1/3 cup fresh flat leaf parsley
Tools
Cutting board
Knife
Shallow roasting pan
Food processor or blender
Directions
Preheat oven to 395F and add cut eggplant and unpeeled garlic to roasting pan, drizzling lightly with grapeseed oil. Roast for approximately 40 minutes until eggplant is brown and soft.
Remove from oven, peel garlic and add to food processor, blending until smooth.
Add white beans, olive oil, lemon juice, white pepper, paprika, basil, and parsley and blend until smooth.
Transfer mixture to a separate container and chill for at least one hour. Garnish with parsley and serve with raw vegetables, olives, crackers, or pita bread, or add to a salad or wrap. Refrigerate leftovers for up to 3 days.
Tips
Tip: Eggplant easily soaks up liquid and oil so drizzle lightly.
Tip: Select an eggplant that is firm and heavy for its size. Test ripeness by gently pressing the skin – if it bounces back, it is ripe. Check the bottom of the eggplant and choose one with a more rounded indentation (a “male”) rather than one with a longer slit-like indentation (“female”).
Prep time: 5 minutes
Cook time: 40 minutes
Level of difficulty: easy
Hummus is one of my favorite food groups. I could eat it every day! I’ll have to try this variation with eggplant. I have two of them sitting in my kitchen right now!
Suzanne,
that sounds absolutely YUMMY! If I can get hold of an eggplant tomorrow, I’m making this!
One question: do you peel the eggplant?
Yes. I do peel it. It’s one of the only vegetables that I peel. (I even will eat the skin of a sweet potato if it is young and clean! :)