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A smoky eggplant dip made with tahini, lemon juice, olive oil, onions, garlic, and dill.

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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 ↓

Best Bhabha-Ghanoush

Oven350 degrees
Time1 hour

Ingredients

Directions

Prepare the eggplant

  1. Cut eggplants in half and place them on an oiled cooking sheet.

  2. Bake them at 350 degrees for 1 hour.

  3. Wait till they are cooled and mash them in a bowl.

Make the onion and garlic

  1. In a frying pan, fry the onions and garlic in the olive oil until golden brown.

  2. Add the dried dill and fry for another few seconds.

Combine and serve

  1. Mix the tahini into the mashed eggplants.

  2. Add in the fried onions, garlic and dill.

  3. Add in the lemon juice. Salt and pepper to taste.

  4. Serve with bread.

Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

314Calories
6 gProtein
22 gFat
29 gCarbs
What these numbers assume: 8 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Tahini1 tbsp (15g)89
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Eggplant1 cup cubed (82g)35
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Clove1 tsp ground (2g)7
Garlic1 clove (3g)4
Dill5 sprigs fresh (1g) / 1 tsp dried4

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. Dill + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together976 recipes

    Shared aroma: beta-phellandrene (minty, terpene).

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

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  4. Garlic + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together25,665 recipes

    Shared aroma: linalool (floral, citrus).

  5. Eggplant + olivetop 2% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together943 recipes

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

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

What each ingredient does

Eggplant
Its flesh becomes soft and creamy when baked, forming the body of the dip.
Tahini
Sesame paste adds richness and a nutty flavour that carries the dip.
Olive oil
Fat carries the flavour of the frying onions and garlic into the dish.
Lemon juice
Acidity brightens the mashed eggplant and balances the richness of the tahini.
Onion
Frying until golden builds sweetness and savoury depth.
Garlic
Frying releases aroma that gives the dip its pungent flavour.

The step that matters

Bake the eggplant until fully soft. Eggplant must be cooked through so its flesh collapses and mashes smoothly. Underbaked flesh stays fibrous and watery, which gives the dip a stringy texture.

Swap the tahini

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

  1. Chickpeafits better
  2. Lentilsfits better
  3. Sesamefits better
  4. Tahinithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against eggplant, onion, clove, garlic, dill, lemon, olive. 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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