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Monney's Smoked Eggplant

Smoked eggplant mixed with olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, onion, and seasonings.

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Why it works: Onion and garlic match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 29,058 recipes. Both carry furaneol, which smells caramel, strawberry. The science ↓

Monney's Smoked Eggplant

Oven400°F

Ingredients

Directions

Roast the eggplant

  1. Bake eggplants in oven at 400°F until tender and charred on all sides.

  2. Allow them to cool.

  3. Peel, remove seeds, and chop them finely.

Make the dip

  1. Add remaining ingredients.

  2. Adjust seasonings.

  3. Serve at room temperature with assorted garnishes.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

307Calories
4 gProtein
14 gFat
47 gCarbs

Counts 8 of 9 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Cherry Pepper1 cup (138g)87
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Black Pepper1 tsp ground (2.3g)6
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Salt1 tsp (6g)0
Smokenot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

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Steps grouped into stages for easier reading; the method is the source's own.

Explore the science

The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Onion + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together29,058 recipes

    Shared aroma: furaneol (caramel, strawberry).

  2. Eggplant + garlictop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together801 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  3. Olive + garlictop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  4. Olive + eggplanttop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together943 recipes

    Shared aroma: alpha-pinene (pine, turpentine).

  5. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

What each ingredient does

Eggplant
Forms the creamy, smoky body of the dip once roasted and chopped.
Extra virgin olive oil
Adds fat and richness, carrying flavor and smoothing the texture.
Fresh lemon juice
Brightens the dip with acidity that balances the smoky and rich flavors.
Garlic
Contributes sharp, pungent aroma that mellows and deepens during mixing.
Onion
Adds sharpness and savory depth to the dip.

The step that matters

Bake eggplants until tender and charred on all sides. Thorough charring lets the skin blister and the flesh collapse and soften, which develops smoky, caramelized flavor and a creamy texture. Underbaked eggplant stays watery and bitter.

Swap the onion

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cherry, pepper, olive, eggplant, clove, garlic, lemon):

  1. Capsicumfits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Tomatofits better
  4. Onionthe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cherry, pepper, olive, eggplant, clove, garlic, lemon. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.

“What each ingredient does” and “The step that matters” were written by Claude from this recipe’s own method and reviewed in samples by CompKitchen.

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