Eggplant Salad (melitzanosalata)

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 6
• 3 lbs eggplants (about 3 or 4 long eggplants)
• 1 small onion, grated
• 2 garlic cloves, crushed
• 1 large tomato, peeled, seeded & chopped into small pieces
• 3/4 cup olive oil
• 1 tablespoon vinegar
• salt and pepper, to taste
• ripe olives
• 1 large green pepper, seeded and sliced into rings

Recipe

• 1 prick eggplants, place them in a baking pan and bake in 350f oven for about one hour or until soft.
• 2 allow skin to shrivel and turn black so as to give a smoky flavor to the salad.
• 3 peel eggplants whil still hot and chop flesh into small pieces.
• 4 continue chopping while slowly adding the onion, garlic, tomato, oil, vinegar, salt and pepper.
• 5 place in salad bowl and garnish with olives and green pepper rings.