Food Network: Poor Man's Caviar: Eggplant Spread

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Poor Man's Caviar: Eggplant Spread
Recipe courtesy Rachael Ray

Ingredients
1 medium, firm eggplant
1 clove garlic, cracked away from the skin
2 pinches ground allspice
Coarse salt and black pepper
1 handful flat-leaf parsley tops
A drizzle extra-virgin olive oil
1 whole grain baguette or other long crusty bread, sliced at bread counter

Directions
Preheat oven to highest setting, at least 500 degrees
F.

Cut 2 or 3 slits into whole eggplant. Place eggplant directly on the oven rack in
the middle of the oven and roast the eggplant until it is tender, about 20
minutes. Keep the slits facing up so that the eggplant does not loose liquids as
it roasts.
The roasted eggplant will look like a flat tire when you remove it from the oven.
Using a sharp utility knife, carefully peel skin away from eggplant flesh. Add
cooked eggplant flesh and juice to food processor and combine with garlic,
allspice, salt, and pepper and parsley. Pulse grind the eggplant into a paste, add
a drizzle of olive oil. Transfer to a serving dish. The seeds of the eggplant will
make the spread resemble caviar eggs, and so the name: poor man's caviar.
To serve, surround a bowlful of spread with crusty bread rounds.
Tidbit: Mixed olives and selections of Italian sheep's milk cheeses are suggested
accompaniments to this menu to round out your buffet. They require no recipe or
preparation and add something to the offering overall. Place them on the buffet

near the eggplant caviar and bread.