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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
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• Cuisine

  European >> Italian >> Italian

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Preheat the broiler. | 2. On a baking sheet, toss eggplant and garlic cloves with oil and salt and broil for about 4 minutes. | 3. Remove garlic and set aside to cool. | 4. Toss and stir eggplant, and continue to cook an additional 4 minutes until browned and tender. | 5. Transfer eggplant to a plate and let cool. | 6. Meanwhile, chop oven-dried tomatoes coarsely and place in a medium bowl along with the pine nuts, parsley, celery, capers, raisins, olives, thyme, vinegar, lemon juice, sugar, red pepper flakes if using. | 7. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper. | 8. Simply toss for a loose mixture, or mix well to bind the mixture together. | 9. Serve spread on crusty bread Oven-Dried Tomatoes. | 10. Preheat oven to 200F Cut tomatoes in half lengthwise, remove seeds. | 11. Slice off visible stems if desired. | 12. On a baking sheet, toss tomatoes with oil and salt and arrange cut sides up. | 13. Place in the oven for 4-5 hours, or until visible moisture has evaporated and tomatoes are shriveled but still soft and pliable. | 14. Let cool and store in an airtight container up to 1 week. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
eggplant	1		cut	-	-	-	-
garlic	2	cloves		8.94	1.9836	0.3816	0.03
pine nut	2	tablespoons	toasted	113.5688	2.2072	2.3102	11.5374
celery	1/2	cup	chopped	8.08	1.4999	0.3484	0.0859
parsley	1/2	cup	chopped	10.8	1.899	0.8909999999999999	0.237
caper	2	tablespoons	drained rinsed	3.9560000000000004	0.8411	0.4059	0.1479
raisin	2	tablespoons	chopped	62.2875	16.401	0.6992	0.0949
kalamata olive	2	tablespoons	oil-cured pitted chopped	-	-	-	-
thyme	2	teaspoons		1.6159999999999999	0.3912	0.08900000000000001	0.0269
balsamic vinegar	2	teaspoons		9.328	1.8052	0.0519	0.0
lemon juice	2	teaspoons		2.2367	0.7015	0.0356	0.0244
sugar	1	pinch		1.1471	0.2869	0.0	0.0
red pepper flake	1/4	teaspoon		-	-	-	-
olive oil	1	teaspoon		39.78	0.0	0.0	4.5
plum tomato	32		cored halved seeded	-	-	-	-
salt	1	teaspoon		-	-	-	-

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.