Classic Baba Ghanoush

Name: Classic Baba Ghanoush
Total time: 35 min
Yield: 12 servings
Cuisine: Middle Eastern
Ingredients: 2 pc aubergine; 70 ml tahini; 3 pc garlic; 2 pc lemon juice; ½ tsp cumin; ½ tsp salt; 0.1 tsp cayenne pepper; 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil; 10 ml extra virgin olive oil; 1 tbsp fresh parsley; ½ tsp paprika (smoked or regular)

Creamy, smoky roasted aubergine dip with tahini, garlic and lemon.

35 min 69 kcal/serving serves 12

69kcal2gprotein5gcarbs5gfat

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🍆aubergine

🥜tahini

🧄garlic

🍋lemon juice

🫙cumin

🧂salt

🌶️cayenne pepper

🫒extra virgin olive oil

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About Tori Avey

American food writer and recipe developer specialising in Jewish and Middle Eastern home cooking

Tori Avey is an American food writer, recipe developer, and blogger behind ToriAvey.com, where she explores the history and cultural roots of the dishes she cooks. She first gained attention for her blog The Shiksa in the Kitchen, chronicling her adaptation to Jewish cuisine, and later wrote the History Kitchen column for PBS Food, tracing the origins of classic recipes.

Her recipes lean heavily on Jewish and Middle Eastern traditions, with dishes like matzo ball soup, brisket, hummus, and shakshuka appearing alongside detailed notes on their history and regional variations. She favors approachable, well-tested home cooking, often including make-ahead tips and substitutions, and pairs her recipes with research into where a dish came from and how it has changed over time.

Seven recipes on Mello, imported from toriavey.com, mostly American and Middle Eastern.