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By Erin Grunstein-Halpern @erin.eats.mtl
Recipe Developer Erin Grunstein-Halpern lives in Montreal, Canada with her husband and 4 children. She is a pediatric physical therapist. As a newly married woman, Erin developed a love for being creative in the kitchen and eventually started sharing recipes on her Instagram page, @erin.eats.mtl.
She knows how busy life can be and her goal is to share easy and healthy(ish) recipes for the busy family. While sharing recipes, Erin gained a love of food photography as well and now she develops recipes with accompanying photographs for different companies. Erin’s goal is to bring families and friends together around the table, and she believes that a shared love for food and tradition are the key ingredients to making this happen. She shared that this eggplant is so incredibly simple to make but somehow it manages to wow guests every time!
Ingredients
- 1 eggplant
- extra virgin olive oil
- salt
- tahini
- silan
Optional toppings:
- zaatar
- pomegranate seeds
- mint
- sauteed onions
- sauteed mushrooms with chestnuts
- chickpeas
- goat cheese
Directions
1. Preheat oven to 400° F.
2. Cut eggplant in half.
3. Drizzle a baking sheet with oil and sprinkle with salt. Rub flesh of both eggplant boats on baking sheet to coat. Lay flesh side down and top with additional oil and salt.
4. Roast for 25-30 minutes, until eggplant is completely soft. Allow to cool.
5. You can stop here and refrigerate your eggplant and prep the rest prior to serving if you’d like.
6. Scoop eggplant flesh out of skin and mash with a fork. Alternatively, mash the flesh in the eggplant skin for a unique presentation.
7. Top with tahini, silan, flaky salt and oil, as well as with whichever “optional toppings” you’d like
Erin Grunstein-Halpern will be leading a free national “Sharsheret in the Kitchen” webinar “Effortless Meals in Minutes,” during the Sharsheret Summit on Wednesday, October 30 at 5 p.m. PT. She will share a few delicious and healthy one-sheet or one-pot dishes to simplify your meal preparation. This program is part of the “Sharsheret in the Kitchen” series, which brings nutritious kosher meal options to empower all of us at risk for breast and ovarian cancer to make healthy diet choices. Register at https://summit.sharsheret.org/etn/effortless-meals-in-minutes/
For more information about Sharsheret: The Jewish Breast and Ovarian Cancer Community, visit sharsheret.org.
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