However mostly pureed eggplants are called caviar in russia. Eggplant caviar often also has tomatoes in it and looks like the pictures meesha v posted. I guess a love of caviar low budgets plentiful summer veggies a sturgeon free substitute. Just like with the sturgeon caviar you would spread the eggplant caviar on a slice of bread and enjoy plus eggplant too has roe like seeds so these may. Wait isn t caviar the roe of sturgeon you may righteously ask.

Eggplant caviar is a dish of oriental origin very common in ukraine and west part of russia. My friend kathi brought this eggplant caviar to a dinner i hosted this summer and if not for the fact that there were s. It is so named i suppose for several reasons. Eggplant caviar also known as poor man s caviar is an appetizer with a russian pedigree that makes a perfect premeal spread for toasted pita bread triangles or smeared onto good quality very fresh rye bread. True the real caviar does come from the sturgeon of the caspian sea.

Please forgive the exalted name of this simple dish. Southeast asia was also considered as a possible place of the eggplant s origin because of the many varieties found there. But because the delicacy comes with a hefty price that not everyone can afford eggplant caviar or a poor man s caviar was born at one point in time in history. Eggplant caviar is ubiquitous in russia which also has lots of other kinds of veggie caviars including mushroom and beet. Like its black eyed pea cousin texas caviar eggplant caviar has nothing to do with salty sturgeon eggs.

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I really have no idea. Eggplant caviar is a paste ultra smooth or chunky depending on how you prefer it smoky slightly charred and sweet eggplants mashed then mixed with spices herbs olive oil and lemon juice. Something like a sauté or ratatouille where the main ingredient is eggplant may be called so. 3 large eggplants 3 4 medium white onions 3 medium carrots optional 6 medium tomatoes 3 red peppers 3 cloves garlic olive oil or best unrefined cottonseed oil but it s not healthy for you so i personally stick with olive oil. It s not remotely fancy but one can pretend right.

Eggplant caviar is consumed cold as a snack. Historians believe the eggplant may have its origins in india but early written accounts from a 5th century chinese record on agriculture called the ts i min yao shu indicate its cultivation in china. Eggplant caviar is consumed cold as a snack. I really have no idea. Please forgive the exalted name of this simple dish.

Historians believe the eggplant may have its origins in india but early written accounts from a 5th century chinese record on agriculture called the ts i min yao shu indicate its cultivation in china. Eggplant caviar is a dish of oriental origin very common in ukraine and west part of russia. However mostly pureed eggplants are called caviar in russia.