Recipes - Side dishes

[Randi]

I have a new side dish for you!

Babaganoush

Ingredients:

* 1 aubergine.
* 3-4 tbl. spoons coldpressed oliveoil
* Juice from 1⁄2-1 lemon
* 1-2 cloves freshly squeezed garlic
* A touch of chili.
* Parsley to sprinkle on

Method:

Prick the Aubergine with a fork all the way around it, put it on a baking sheet and bake in oven at 200 degrees, until it's quite soft - it will take about 40 minutes. When the Aubergine has cooled off a bit, cut it open lenghtwise, scrape the "meat" out and mash with a fork.

Add oil and lemon to taste, and flavoir it with garlic and chili. Just before serving, sprinkle it with parsley.

Bon appetit!

[jennielynn1970]

I love babaganoush!! I always buy mine at a local arab market though, lol, I'm too lazy to make it.

To those not accustomed to the term "aubergine", it's an eggplant.

[Randi]

Ugh, I keep forgetting you call it eggplant over there.

[jennielynn1970]

I like the name aubergine better, it sounds pretty!

[Randi]

I bought a packet of frozen onion rings in a supermarket, they're American. I've had onion rings a few times in restaurants, but never at home. I think they're quite yummy, though.

Well, I never fry anything in oil, so I put them in the oven, as they also suggested on the packet. I can't wait to try them!

Do you make onion rings yourself, and what do have them with?

[cats4ever]

I love onions on sandwiches and lots of dishes, but it has been a very long time that I had onion rings (in a restaurant). I have never made them myself. Like you, I never fry anything in oil.
How did the oven baked onion rings turn out?

[Randi]

Well, I certainly prefer the ones I had in restaurants.The ones I had were... let's say, eatable, but not as I remember them from Indian restaurants in England. I think there is sugar in the ones I bought. I will most likely make them myself next time!