Eggplant With Yogurt Sauce Recipe

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An unexpected but beautiful combination: eggplant, yogurt, and pomegranate seeds, as seen on OnSugar blog FreshTart.

I've had my eye on this recipe ever since I acquired the lovely cookbook Plenty by Yotam Ottolenghi. If you're looking for mouth-watering ways to add vegetables to your life, this is your book. Not only are the recipes clever and inspired, the photography is simply stunning. Earlier this Summer, I took a cup of coffee out on the deck, into the morning sun, and decided to affix Post-it notes to the dishes I wanted to try. My husband watched me from the kitchen window for a bit, then popped his head out to say that perhaps I should mark the recipes I wasn't interested in.

Truly, I was tagging the entire book.

This rustic dish is basically a ready-to-eat spread: Melting eggplant, creamy yogurt, zippy za'atar spices, and tangy-crunchy pomegranate seeds. Nothing less than a flavor-texture explosion, it's also is a breeze to make and eat, just simply roasted eggplant drizzled with a little of this and that.

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Serve with a pile of grilled bread and attack right off the baking sheet. Recipe for Eggplant With Yogurt Sauce at Dara & Co./Minnesota Monthly Magazine.

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