Ingredients

  • 2 large eggplants
  • salt
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • 1 medium onion, chopped fine
  • 2 tablespoons olive oil
  • 4 -5 garlic cloves, chopped fine
  • 1/2 cup sour cream
  • 1 tablespoon olive oil
  • dried mint
  • salt and pepper

Method

  • Preheat oven to 325 degrees.
  • Peel the eggplant, and cut a slit along the side. Salt it, and let it sit and drain for half an hour. Rinse salt off.
  • Slice the two eggplants thin lengthwise into 5 or 6 pieces each.
  • Baste in olive oil on both sides.
  • Lay these in an oven proof dish. Cook until golden brown.
  • Chop the onion and garlic cloves, and fry in a pan with olive oil.
  • Remove eggplants from oven, add to onion/garlic mix. Puree mix in a food processor until chunky but smooth. Return to pan.
  • Add sour cream, simmer for fifteen minutes. Place in serving dish.
  • In a smaller pan, fry the mint in oil. Drizzle or spoon over the eggplant as garnish.