Waffles with baba ganoush
6 servings
150 minutes
The recipe was shared by the chef and co-owner of Sky Food Café Valentin Naumkin.
1
Pierce the eggplants with a fork or skewer, bake in the oven at 210 degrees for about 30 minutes. Remove, transfer to a container, cover with foil or film. Let cool.
- Eggplants: 2 kg
2
Then cut the eggplant lengthwise and scoop out all its flesh into a separate bowl. Add tahini, sesame oil, 3 cloves of garlic (chopped), lemon juice, salt, and pepper.
- Eggplants: 2 kg
- Tahini: 100 g
- Sesame oil: 1 tablespoon
- Garlic: 6 cloves
- Lemon juice: 10 ml
- Salt: 10 g
- Thyme: to taste
3
Roast 1 kg of red bell pepper in the oven for about 30 minutes at 180 degrees. Then remove and place in a heatproof container, cover with a lid or plastic wrap. Allow to cool completely. Carefully peel off the skin with a vegetable knife or by hand, and break the pepper into pieces of red flesh. Discard the seeds and skin.
- Red sweet pepper: 1 kg
4
Peel 1 kg of firm tomatoes (make a cross-shaped cut on the opposite side from where the tomato was attached to the bush, dip in boiling water for 30 seconds, then into cold water). Carefully peel the skin with a vegetable knife.
- Tomatoes: 1 kg
5
Cut each tomato into 4-6 equal pieces and remove the seeds. Place on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper, drizzle with olive oil, garlic pieces, thyme leaves, salt, and sugar.
- Tomatoes: 1 kg
- Olive oil: to taste
- Garlic: 6 cloves
- Thyme: to taste
- Salt: 10 g
6
Bake for 2 hours at a temperature of 70–80 degrees. Then cool down. It can be stored in a tightly closed jar with the addition of olive oil.
7
Whip the egg whites until they look like bath foam. Mix flour, baking powder, 10 grams of salt, and 40 grams of sugar; add milk and softened butter (at room temperature), then fold in the whipped egg whites. Mix well. It's ideal to use a hand mixer on low speed. The dough is ready.
- Egg white: 90 g
- Wheat flour: 400 g
- Baking powder: 10 g
- Salt: 10 g
- Sugar: 40 g
- Milk: 300 ml
- Butter: 200 g
8
Preheat the waffle maker to 250 degrees, place the required amount of batter (depending on the size of the waffle maker). Close the waffle maker, wait for 3 minutes, open it, flip and wait for another minute.
9
Cutting the waffles diagonally will result in triangles.
10
Top with 1 tablespoon of baba ghanoush, garnished with confit tomatoes, roasted peppers, sesame seeds, and any herbs like parsley.
- Eggplants: 2 kg
- Tomatoes: 1 kg
- Red sweet pepper: 1 kg
- Olive oil: to taste
- Thyme: to taste