Ajvar Dip

Ingredients

• Pilaros Roasted Red Pepper

  Pilaros Roasted Red Pepper

  11 Pepper or 825g

• Eggplant

  Cooked, boiled, drained, without salt

  8 cup, cubed or 792g

• Garlic

  Raw

  10 clove or 30g

• Salt

  Table

  1 tsp or 6g

• Pepper

  Spices, black

  1 tbsp or 6g

• Olive oil

  Salad or cooking

  ¾ cup or 162g

• Chili powder

  Spices

  1 tbsp or 8g

• Parsley

  Spices, dried

  3 tbsp or 5g

Directions

1. Light one chimney full of charcoal. When all the charcoal is lit and covered with grey ash, pour out and arrange coals on one side of the charcoal grate. Set cooking grate in place, cover grill and allow to preheat for 5 minutes. Clean and oil the grilling grate. Place peppers on the hot side of the grill and cook until blackened all over, 10-15 minutes. Transfer pepper to a large bowl, cover with plastic wrap and let sit until cool enough to handle about 20 minutes. Remove charred skin, seeds, and cores from peppers.
2. While the peppers are cooling, pierce the skin of eggplant with a fork all over. Place eggplant on the cool side of the grill. Cover and cook until skin darkens and wrinkles and eggplant is uniformly soft when pressed with tongs, about 30 minutes, turning halfway through for even cooking. Remove eggplant from grill and let sit until cool enough to handle about 10 minutes. Trim top off eggplant and split lengthwise. Using a spoon, scoop out the flesh of eggplant; discard skin.
3. Place roasted red peppers, eggplant pulp, and garlic in a food processor fitted with a steel blade. Pulse until roughly chopped. Add in oil, vinegar, and salt and pulse until incorporated and peppers are finely chopped
4. Transfer sauce to a medium saucepan. Bring to a simmer over medium-high heat, then reduce heat to medium-low and simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Remove from heat and season with salt and pepper to taste. Let cool to room temperature then use immediately or transfer to an airtight container and store in the refrigerator for up to two weeks
5. Adapted from: https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2013/09/ajvar-serbian-roasted-red-pepper-sauce-recipe.html