Awesome Baba Ganoush

Ingredients

• 1 medium whole eggplant
• 1 bulb of garlic
• 1 lemon, juiced
• 2 tbsp tahini
• Sea salt
• Olive oil
• Garnish - fresh scallion, parsley, sweet or hot peppers and sumac (if available)

Instructions

1. Preheat oven to 350F and position the rack to the middle rung
2. Pierce eggplant with fork
3. Drizzle olive oil and sea salt over eggplant and bulb of garlic
4. Place whole eggplant and garlic in shallow pan and place into oven
5. Cook 45 minutes (or until it appears to start to collapse a little and renders some juice)
6. Remove pan from oven
7. Peel and remove stem and all skin from eggplant
8. Add juice from pan, 1 clove garlic, lemon juice, tahini, a pinch of salt to blender and pulse until smooth
9. Garnish with chopped scallion and parsley; thinly sliced ribbons of sweet or hot peppers and sumac 
10. Serve chilled or at room temperature with any entree, sandwich, veggies or chips; (especially good with fresh naan or pita bread)